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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Kids go to school hungry while their parents lie in bed after a night on the booze.......yes, you see them at the school gates in the afternoon smoking a fag......and talking about their latest aquisition of games console, TV etcetera.
There is less in the benefits pot, because more people who should not be claiming benefits, are claiming them....people who land on our shores from a foreign country, to be given housing clothing and full access to benefits.
They then live frugally and send the money back to their homeland where it benefits, not our economy, but theirs.
It will get worse from 2014 when Croatians will be allowed free let into this country, and access to the benfits system from the day they land......they are making plans in their millions to come here purely for money to live off my pension(my taxes will be used to fund these people).
You never once criticised the Labour government for their porous border control, this was a ploy to get more people they thought would vote for them, into the country...they failed to recognise(or maybe they thought somebody else would have the problem of sorting it out) the problems that such a great influx of low skilled and unskilled people coming into the country, would have on the infrastructure of our towns and cities. On Housing, on Health services, on schools, transport.
The only people who should be allowed into this country are those with skills we need.......and like in Australia, if they do not have the means to survive withou government help for a period of two years, then they too, should be banned from entry.
Labour governments also built a culture of welfare dependent families...again in the hope that these would vote for Labour candidates(well, they would wouldn't they - who wants benefits stopping ?). For some families a life on benefits is a lifestyle choice.
I am not saying that some benefit claimants aren't genuine, but that there are many who are not.
You won't hear a word of this against your beloved Labour party...who I suppose you consider to be 'socialist'....but they haven't been socialist for a damn long time.....unless of course, you consider Champagne socialism, true socialism.
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Never thought I'd say this, but he's actually right about this one. The tories are readying themselves for a total assault on the welfare state with the introduction of the Universal Credit system. They are playing on the idea of the media led populist belief that everyone on the dole is a sponger, every single parent is called Kylie and only got pregnant to jump the housing queue and that young people are typified by those that appear on Jeremy Kyle.
Whilst I agree that there are people who abuse the current system, it's a very small minority and I also believe that the majority who do receive benefits genuinely need them. The system does indeed need pruning but instead of using shears, the tories are using a chainsaw.
They have already made massive cuts to thousands of people with mental health/learning disability needs, because they have no real voice to fight. They have significantly underfunded county councils, particularly those councils north of Watford Gap which has a knock on effect on reduced social care for the elderly and those with dementia.
They are interfering in peoples lifestyle choices, where they have no business to interfere, because they know whats best for us. e.g. 45p per unit.
After freezing NHS budgets, we have headlines of poor care and crap nursing. And this year they will put the final nail in the NHS when the commissioning board take over, despite doctors saying it will not work.
None of this can be ascribed to 13 years of Labour control despite what the tory redtop rags would have you believe. It is, and always has been the dogma of the tory party to destroy both the welfare state and the nhs.