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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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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.
advertisement
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.
and etc ...........
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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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