So few in the media are willing to point out the Tories benefit sanctions regime costs the taxpayer £153 million more a year to run than it saves.
Attack the poor it’s in their genes.
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So few in the media are willing to point out the Tories benefit sanctions regime costs the taxpayer £153 million more a year to run than it saves.
Attack the poor it’s in their genes.
It's all about demonising those at the bottom so that everyone else who's being squeezed point accusing fingers downwards rather than upwards for themselves becoming poorer in real terms and more indebted. And it's worked a treat. The total JSA annual bill is much less than half of what the UK gives away in foreign aid each year.
We should double benefits
Vast majority of UK households are collecting at least one benefit every week. That's due in no small part to the State Pension being a benefit, and those households number six million. I've had quite a few discussions with random old boys (mostly in boozers) down the years and several expressed surprise and disbelief that they were benefit claimants. A few got a little stroppy too. A testament to how effective the demonising gambit has been on the divide and rule front.
https://twitter.com/Rachael_Swindon/...34466087161856
So you are just quoting twitter posts from left wing extremists and agitators?
I'd prefer the OP try to advance the debate by adding views, opinions and sometimes facts. Cutting and pasting from someone else's twitter account, like some kind of broken record, like its an innate truth doesn't really add much.
Wouldn't' you agree Cyril????
Sometimes facts? Are they the least desirable of the three options? Opinions and views can be argued against. Facts, especially in this case, often can't be. I have to add that it's a particularly good Tory tactic of ignoring facts and attacking the source or reasoning.
Would you care to comment on the factual stat as mentioned, or would you prefer to ignore it totally and have a pop at the poster instead? One answer makes you appear to be a total dick, while the other forces you into a situation of some awkwardness. Over to you....
Or maybe that.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...enefit-9361944
COFOG FY 2016
Spending
[+] Pensions 154.7
[+] Health Care 138.5
[+] Education 84.8
[+] Defence 44.8
[–] Welfare 113.6
[+] Family and children 15.7
[+] Unemployment 2.7
[+] Housing 4.0
[+] Social exclusion n.e.c. 31.6
[+] R&D Social protection 0.0
[+] Social protection n.e.c. 59.7
[+] Protection 29.9
[+] Transport 27.8
[+] General Government 13.8
[+] Other Spending 17.0
[+] Interest 45.9
[+] Balance 0.0
[+] Total Spending 762.3
[+] Public Net Debt 1,602.6
[+] Current Budget Deficit 38.9.
Over to you young , chancellors ,fix the above, you have 3 years to do so ,forget your political allegiances, pretend it's your money .
Like you tied yourself up in knots on your deluded housing policy thread where you spouted utter lies and complete bollocks throughout. You did not - because you could not - come back with one answer where I proved you wrong, wrong and then wrong again on everything that you posted in your thread.
Clown? Look in the mirror Coco.
Last official national debt figure I saw at the end of last year was just shy of £1.8 trillion.
This live debt clock has it above £2 trillion. http://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk/