Honor codes like this are state-resistant behavior; what they replace in general is worse (slavery and oriental despotism). That said it resists the state in the worst possible way (making society literally poison to attempt to consume by predatory states). The author is correct to see that the welfare state does nothing but foster this behavior; Dalrymple's "Life at the Bottom" is the primer on this phenomenon occurring in the west. In short, the UK is on track to become barbarians squatting in the ruins of a once great society, along with much of the EU.