More than 1,000 illegal migrants have crossed the Channel today, already.
You can call me racist, you can call me far-right - I do not care. They all need to go home. Not some, not most, not just those arriving.
All of them. However many million.
Mass deportations, urgently.
The hard thing for most politicians to admit is this - the welfare state is too big, too bloated, too fat.
Too many are on benefits, often on nonsense grounds.
Subsidising the permanent inactivity of healthy people is not acceptable.
The benefits bill needs to be slashed back.
Farage is wrong - British taxpayers do not want to further subsidise healthy individuals who may never work a day in their lives. Cynical vote-chasing welfare expansion.
The uncomfortable truth? We need brutal cuts to benefits.
Alongside a safety net for those who genuinely need it, but rip away the option of a lifetime on benefits for healthy individuals.
What can be done?
- Benefits tied to British citizenship or a significant period of financial contribution.
- Compulsory job placements/community work after a set period of time.
- Potential voucher use for those healthy claimants unwilling to work.
- Mandatory face-to-face assessments, particularly for those claiming mental health issues.
- Young claimants automatically enrolled into placements, training or apprenticeships.
- Firms can claim tax credits for taking on long-term unemployed people and training them.
- No benefits unless proper evidence of job search.
It's reported that more than half a million are claiming disability benefits for anxiety and depression.
This is madness. It simply has to end. It cannot continue, we just can't afford it.
Political courage is required to even begin this process, but we are spending FAR too much money on supporting people NOT to work - it's THE big unspoken truth in British politics.
Support those genuinely in need, but don't reward indolence and idleness. We need to back hard work - transform the takers to givers, and get Britain working.
Farage is wrong. A serious party would fix the system, not feed it.
Reform is wrong to call for the end of the two child benefit cap - a lazy policy, which fattens an already vastly bloated welfare state. Start with tax breaks for parents. Make childcare affordable. Let people keep more of what they earn. Reward work over dependency.
Hardworking parents, already taxed up to their neck, should not have to further subsidise parents who don’t work.
We need a serious policy platform to encourage British families to have more children.
Front-load child benefit - pay more of the money in the earlier years, when the help is really required. Link the payment to British citizenship or at least following a considerable period of paying into the system.
Stamp duty reduction for British families - make it easier for young families to move into a larger home to meet their needs.
Reform spousal visas - British citizens should be able to raise their families at home with a foreign spouse, without being treated like criminals by the Home Office (subject to the immigration red list). That’s positive, principled immigration and it should be encouraged.
Tax breaks for parents and marriage - Reward families with meaningful relief. Raise thresholds, widen VAT exemptions for essential child-related items, and expand tax-deductible childcare costs.
IVF access - widen for British citizens.
Hungary-style tax incentives - Exemptions or lifelong income tax reductions for mothers? If it works in Hungary, let’s look at how it could apply to Britain.
Recklessly expanding benefits is not the answer. That argument may not be politically convenient, but it is the right one to make. Reform want to chase votes, and maybe that strategy will work for them in the immediate short term, but it won’t work for Britain.
Speaking honestly, and it’s not an argument you’ll hear politicians making, we need to radically slash the amount of our money being spent on benefits, not irresponsibly hike it.
Unpopular? Maybe. Necessary? Absolutely, yes.
How to stop the boats? REMOVE the incentives.
This might sound crazy - but STOP putting these men in luxury accommodation. STOP letting them stay. STOP giving them a comfortable life.
Deport ALL of them. Start to do that, and the boats stop overnight.
It's not complicated.
I'm rather fed up of walking into any English town centre on an evening and having large groups of young foreign men loitering around, intimidating local people - especially women.
It didn't used to be this way, and we shouldn't accept it as normal.
It's not normal.
Dear Ginger Growler @AngelaRayner
Decent Brits work damn hard to own a few things, have a some savings or afford their own kids.
It is their effort. Their money. Not yours.
Nor some lazy bastards who can’t be arsed to work. Or banged out kids they can’t afford
KH
Dear Lefties,
You got defeated so badly because:
1) Working class people want the illegals sent back, and the boats stopped.
2) Working class people want a fairer tax system that supports work.
3) Working class people despise ‘Woke’.
Well done Voters. 👍
The ‘common sense’ wave is finally sweeping through our lands 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Now for the ‘can everyone stop being weird’ wave to hit! Let’s reinstate some ‘normality’🫡🇬🇧
London is the heart of Great Britain, I have a pure British heart. She will be returned to where she belongs and in turn I will return her to the people! Fate is inevitable 🫡🇬🇧