La riforma del welfare “deve avvenire”, afferma il ministro
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg3jl0ylkyo
di corbynista2029
La riforma del welfare “deve avvenire”, afferma il ministro
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg3jl0ylkyo
di corbynista2029
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Then cut the triple lock first because that’s the name of the so called “black hole”
“We aren’t willing to consider any other options”, says minister.
It can only happen if people are supported to manage and adapt to their disabilities and health conditions.
Even if we accept the premise that there are too many people out of work due to illness, you don’t fix anything by pushing them into destitution and homelessness. The State ultimately picks up the bill for that as well, and it’s usually a much higher bill than just paying to keep people safe in the first place.
£180 billion on non-pensionable benefits is an insane amount of money. The vast majority of which goes on working age benefits and UC. For context, that 5x our entire transport budget, 2x the entire education budget or 3x the defence budget.
Imagine the productivity gains by properly funding transport, education or research and development in sciences.
If the country has to move forward, the benefits bill must be slashed. Not by £5 billion which is a rounding error but by £50 billion.
The triple lock should also be means tested, meaning it’s removed for people which decent private pensions (25% of pensioners are millionaires)
Start with the triple lock and means test the state pension
2010 – austerity starts – welfare is cut, public services are cut, wages decline
2012 – austerity continues everyone agrees that Uk welfare state has been stripped so much that people are dying in poverty
2016 – Panama Papers shows how much tax is being avoided by the powerful. Including the PM David Cameron. Uk votes Brexit, wages still falling in line with inflation, welfare still cut
2020 – world wide pandemic, country in lockdown, rich people make exorbitant amounts of money. Wages in free fall no change to benefits.
2024 – welfare is now too high somehow
Pensioners paid into the system but the unfortunate reality is that they did not pay in enough. People are living a lot longer but people are also living much sicker lives than before. Modern medicine is great but it does cost a lot to treat people, especially as the likes of cancer, heart disease, type two diabetes etc. are not the death sentence they once were. Someone who stops working at 60-65 but then lives for another 30 years with multiple conditions that need managing costs health and social care a lot of money, so on top of everything else, that means spending hundreds of thousands on therapeutic healthcare alone. It is something that is not spoken about but it is where the ‘I paid into the system all my life’ argument falters. Yes, people paid in but we are now at a point where they are a net drain on society.
Lets see.. get rid of the triple Lock Pensions and make all benefits means tested or go after the disabled…
No Government will remove the Triple Lock simply because they are the countries largest voter base.
Anything to not tax the richest, even if it means the most vulnerable dying because fuck it, they don’t bring any money in.
Cuts have never worked but kier won’t let that get in the way. It’s bound to work this time! Honest, no look over here at these disabled people jangling keys, bastard’s aren’t they. Not like our good old British successful businessmen and owners dodging tax or the huge tech corps raking in billions and paying pennies. Punch down, not up right.
I honestly think kier is going to do to labour what clegg did to the libdems, and it will be well deserved.
Get rid of in work benefits. 40% of the benefits bill which is just a subsidy for uneconomic companies.
Bring in UBI – it’s actually a very conservative policy because you are in essence letting the inland revenue replace 95% of the DWP for no cost.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to do this that won’t involve huge increases in homeless people. We’ll soon see UK streets filled with people sleeping rough, like in the USA. Perhaps even shanty slums on the edges of cities. We’ll also see massive increase in crime as homeless people with nothing to lose resort to any means necessary for food. How will people react to children and elderly people begging for food in front of local supermarkets?
Here’s a crazy idea how about taxing the rich properly in stead.
The very definition of banging your head against a brick wall, hoping for a different result.
They always start at the bottom while ignoring the tax avoiders and millionaires.
**Welfare reform ‘must happen’, says the well warmed, well housed and well fed**