New Labours Britain - Dole Figures and the Welfare State.

Found this over at A Very British Dude and its well worth a read, he has done a breakdown of the unemployed and the unemployable - often the same thing - and found some rather frightening figures and yes its all coming out of my (and all the other taxpayers pockets).

21-22% of the working age population are "economically inactive". That is some 8 million people. Of these 2.3 million are looking after home, 1.85 million are students, though many are simply doing non courses in "tourism management", or "Golf Studies" (a three year degree? I think not) to massage the unemployment figures. 591,000 are retired, 200,000 are Temporary sick, which leaves 2.1 million Long term sick and the remainder some million or so "discouraged workers".

Now without going into depth on this I happen to agree with most of the figures that he has produced and it shows a major problem with the way that Britain is being run (or is that not run). We have our PM saying -although not outright as he never says anything outright, that we need migrants to do the work that us Brits seem to think we are to good for/can not take up because {insert excuse here} /not got enough money to cover{insert expenses covered by benefits here}.

Now if the whole system is not to collapse in say 20/30 years time, we need to encourage these people to take up work. In short cut back on all forms of benefits, and ignore the bleeding hearts who whenever any reform is so much as suggested start howling about "oppressing the {insert token group here} and hows its just a step away from the workhouse."

In my view if you cut benefits to the bone, told single mothers to cut down on fags/booze/drugs and if they want any more kids to pay for them themselves, got every lazy arsed fat fucker with a "bad back" and a constant sick note from the docs out looking for work all the jobs that have been gathering dust in the local jobcentres would be filled in record time. (getting up from Sky Sports each morning may actually cure that mythical ailment that medical science has been unable to solve, and the walking to your job each morning and evening will do you some good as well as the beer belly will vanish in no time at all.)

Think that they wont work, when it comes to a choice of either losing your free council house, having your kids taken into care and facing starvation you can bet your arse that most of them will work. A simple and effective carrot and stick approach. Stay at home and watch daytime tv while you starve to death or work and get some self respect back.

My own experiance of the "dole" system earlier this year was a farce, and I quickly realised that I could use my skills to land another job quicker than it would take the vast hoards of government workers to pay me a token amount of dole money every few weeks.

End result was that I found a job with a/no help from the job centres - used something called a telephone and e-mail in order to do that. b/ went into said jobcentre and closed my claim as they wanted me to turn up for an interview at the same time I was due to start work and I could not risk losing the job by taking time off.

Another point is that of the so called anti-social behaviour, in a nutshull what I refer to as bollocks. The reason that we have gangs of feral youths on the streets damaging property and doing what ever they like is quite simply that they have never worked, dont know how to go about improving themselves and had no one in any position of power tell them how to do that. Once they work they may gain a respect for other peoples property, value other people and realise that what they damaged actually costs money to repair.

A Very British Dude finished his article with this gem: Or to put it another way, at the start of the twentieth century the government ate roughly 10% of UK GDP in total, and had the largest fleet in the world. Larger than the next two put together. Today social security alone eats 11% of GDP, and our fleet is barely strong enough to defend the home islands.

On a different tack the nanny state is getting ever more powerfull as it now has plans to outlaw smoking at the wheel of a car. What with the ever spiraling costs of running a car and duty on fags I would assume that not many people these days can afford to do both. Still thats the nanny state for you. Story is here about planned £60 fines under the new highway code.

Finally on the state of the UK, seems that New Labour have managed to crack terrorism. No seriously stop laughing at the back, they are talking about --- cue New Labour speak "An appreciation of core British values" that could be incorporated into citizenship classes in schools under proposed government plans.

In response to last year's London bombings, ministers want to review the current citizenship classes in schools, in an attempt to make society more unified. Well that will do it, never mind the jihadist preachers spouting hate and bile against us kafir, a good talking to is all thats needed.

Education minister Bill Rammell hopes a debate about the values shared by all communities across society - such as freedom, fairness, civil responsibilities and democracy - will help to tackle extremism and discrimination. Wonder if they will include a healthy debate on the violent incitement to murder that was displayed during the Cartoon protests, or maybe a public debate on the 7/7 bombings? Link to article at El Beeb: http://news.El bbc.co.uk

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http://devilskitchen.blogspot.com/2006/05/welfare-state-is-evil.html#links
http://brackenworld.blogspot.com/2006/05/big-bear-in-woods.html

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