UK Poverty Trap and .... need Dodgy's take on this

[Angela_D]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...nwelfare27.xml

Five million Britons on state aid

By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 2:45am GMT 27/11/2006

More than five million Britons now rely on state aid to live and the number of younger people claiming sickness benefit is higher than anywhere else in the industrialised world, a major new study has found.

Ten years after Tony Blair promised a root-and-branch welfare reform and to use the money saved to fund health and education improvements, Britain's poor remained trapped in dependency and taxpayers are propping up an expensive and wasteful system.

Detailed research published today by the Reform think tank will fuel the debate triggered last week by David Cameron's speech on poverty and the advice from Tory strategists that they should borrow the language of Left-wing social commentators such as Polly Toynbee of The Guardian.
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It reveals that Gordon Brown's much-vaunted tax credits present a bigger barrier to people moving from benefits into work than in any other major western country.


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Horrible situation but doesn't it suit tax and spend GB nicely to have millions of people dependent on 'his' 'generosity'?

What a *&^*

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[wendigo100]

Horrible situation but doesn't it suit tax and spend GB nicely to have millions of people dependent on 'his' 'generosity'?

What a *&^*

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Yes it does.

And the word you are looking for is idiot. Unless you mean cunt, which I wouldn't argue with.

[Troll]

What is interesting is the amount of high income earners still able to claim tax credits.
One contractor I knew claimed tax credits for his 2 children - a not inconsiderable amount which he stuffed away yearly as a nest egg for the kids.
I always thought this was means tested. Does anyone else claim this ?

[sasguru]

Well perhaps the bottom 8% of any population are incapable of earning a living anyway?

[Troll]

Well perhaps the bottom 8% of any population are incapable of earning a living anyway?

and surely we should allow them to starve to death anyway...eugenics & all that

[Spartacus]

and surely we should allow them to starve to death anyway...eugenics & all that

Only if the remains are recycled as fertilised.

[premiere]

"Soylent Green is People"!

Great film...Charlton Heston at his finest...........

...Now then, who's nicked all my "give your kid a shotgun for xmas" campaign leaflets?

[John Galt]

All roughly translated as even more lazy barstewards have cottoned on to how easy it is to get benefits

[PerlOfWisdom]

When you tell them your income has increased they keep paying the same amount. Then 2 years later when you're on the breadline they want it all back.