David Vance on A Tangled Web picks up on something that is in today's Express newspaper:
' Britain’s culture of benefits dependency is exposed today as new figures show 1.6 million “workers” never had a job.
Relying on the rest working hard to pay their way, it is now clear that generations have embraced a life of idleness funded by the taxpayer.
The findings will appal the millions of families who are seeing their wages plundered by the Government to meet the country’s £200billion annual welfare bill. And they reveal an urgent need for reform if Britain is to claw its way out of recession and wean people off state-funded handouts.
Analysis by the Department of Work and Pensions shows that more than 700,000 young people between 16 and 24 have not held a job, while more than 800,000 adults from 25 to 64 survive on benefits. The 2010 data shows an increase of 300,000 non-workers on the 2009 total when 1.3 million people were recorded as never having had a job.'
David Vance writes:
'So, we have 1.6 million who don’t/won’t work meanwhile we have over a million coming into the UK to do the jobs that allegedly Brits won’t do? It all sounds rather odd. The facts are simple. Labour created a dependency culture, many embraced it, the cost is massive and it has to come to a shuddering halt. If people will not work, the State does not owe them a living. Under Labour, the UK became the sick man of Europe, again.'
He's right, but it is worse than that, Labour have created a 'client state' of people dependant on state benefits, those who enjoy the fruits of immigration and those paid by the state to manage the whole system. This 'client state' votes Labour and is what kept the Conservatives from forming a government by themselves. Until this issue is tackled this will be a one term Conservative lead government, however dire a Labour leader Ed Miliband is.
One frightening thing about so many of the young is that they do not know how to work or what the disciplines and needs of work are. Add to that gaps in their basic capabilities, lack of language structure, vocabulary and ability to explain clearly as well as innumeracy there is a problem that is not going to go away.
ReplyDeleteI have written before that the last election was one of the most vital in our history. Had Labour won, they would have continued their work of creating a dependent clientele of such size that they would have become impossible to remove for the foreseeable future.
ReplyDeleteAs it is, they were only just forced out, and with a weak coalition they may return soon. And then that's the end of the game.
Nu-Lie-bour were a self-serving band of rascals, so a c-lie-nt state fits their aims very well. Lies are, as I have highlighted in a desperate attempt at a joke, their core values.
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