Benefits, my honest view.
I think decent, hardworking men and women all over the country are becoming increasingly irritated with indolent scroungers who spend their days doing sod all, living off the back of actual hardworking taxpayers.
It is an insult.
Let me be abundantly clear. Of course, there needs to be a proper safety net for those who need the help - the genuinely ill/disabled, and those who have fallen on hard times who require support to bring them back into the workplace.
But there are vast numbers who are taking the piss, to be quite frank. Whether through outright fraud, or simply taking advantage of a ridiculously inept system.
23 per cent of the working-age population now in receipt of some form of benefits - this is outrageous. It is FAR too high.
Many on for mental health related issues...
‘New Telegraph analysis of government data found the number of people claiming Pip for “anxiety disorders” and “anxiety and depressive disorders” has doubled from 230,667 in 2020 to 461,826 in January this year.’
It's the new 'bad back'.
Half a million people. This is INSANITY. It simply has to be brutally slashed down.
Foreign national households claimed almost one billion in benefits in March - nearly a sixth of the month’s Universal Credit payments. Just think about that...
One billion a year in Universal Credit on refugee households. It is absolutely mental that we are paying illegal migrants benefits. And we wonder why they keep coming?!
We cannot afford this. I don’t know how else to say this - WE ARE BROKE.
How can we fix it? Labour is unable, the Tories seem unwilling, and Reform inexplicably wants to expand the welfare state - even paying foreigners on benefits to have more children.
Stop benefits for foreign nationals, other than those who have contributed for 10+ years, and get these millions of healthy Brits back to work.
An immediate ban on illegal migrants claiming benefits. If you arrived illegally, you don't get a penny (other than a one-way plane ticket home).
The two-child cap MUST stay. Reform, chasing votes, wants to lift it. This is filthy politics. No, it must stay at two.
What message are we sending to youngsters? Do sod all and you’ll get rewarded for it?
We must make work pay. If you do a proper day’s work, you should ALWAYS be significantly better off than if you were to claim benefits.
The benefits system is a a sprawling, bloated trap - encouraging dependency, punishing work, and bleeding the country dry.
Britain doesn’t need mass immigration. It needs to get the British working.
I’ll get insulted and abused for stating these undeniable facts, but it’s true and we all know it - politicians should have the courage to say so.
We must end the madness. Work must be rewarded. Responsibility must return.
Tomorrow marks a whopping 29 years since this magical moment at Wembley.
A summer where it felt like the sun was always shining and anything was possible.
Great commentary by Brian Moore.
🗣️ Gascoigne...he can finish it here
I paid into National Insurance all my working life in order to receive a pension which I was told I would receive at the age of 60yrs.
This was changed to 67yrs as we were told they couldn’t afford it any longer.
What really annoys me though is that they have managed to find the money for 100,000s of people to live free in Hotels all expenses paid & others claiming benefits when these people have not paid a penny into this country.
This is what is not right or fair.
Why should we be paying anything when others are getting everything for free
This country is a joke as they should be looking after the people that pay their way & always have.
Setting fire to the holiday inn in Rotherham and blocking the exits when there's potentially staff, children and innocent people inside doesn't make you a patriot. It makes you a murderous scumbag. Lowest of the low.
They partied , they bet on elections , they crashed the economy, they broke every public service, they destroyed integrity and honesty in public office , they paid their mates billions , they put their friends in the House of Lords, they gave their cronies knighthoods, they went into the jungle , they lied again and again, they were convicted by police, they went on holiday when they shouldn’t and they have the cheek to question Keir Starmer’s work ethic. I would never take anything for granted but I hope they are annihilated on Thursday. The worst people and government we have ever had!
P.S good afternoon all 😊❤️
HALF THE WORLD AWAY, MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, LOCK ALL THE DOORS AND D’YER WANNA BE A SPACEMAN ALL IN THE ONE NIGHT???? EVERYBODY SAY THANK U LIAM GALLAGHER 🙏🏼
Some bloke has just called up Absolute Radio and requested a song for someone called ‘Ellen Droad’ and asked for this 😭😭😭
“Leeds are falling apart again”
For the last 14 years as an NHS doctor, I have watched this party, these governments, savage the NHS into a crumbling shell of a once great institution. Deliberate, calculated, shameless destruction.
Only one thing to say. Please, if you still want an NHS, do not vote Tory.
Leicester and Blackburn fans unite to sing about Leeds “falling apart again”…
Literally every club don’t like Leeds, do they? 🤣😭 https://t.co/nEeaBvioB2