| Topic: | Anti-welfare propaganda | |
| Posted by: | Peter Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 04/05/26 00:58:00 |
| This 'Conservative analysis' refers to households and not individuals, so comparing their total benefit with individual work wages makes no sense. Total benefits can be for several people who might have multiple difficulties that legitimately makes work impossible'. Also, 600,000 is a tiny fraction of the total UK populations of nearly 30 million households, and this report provides no breakdown of how these unusually high levels of benefit are arrived at. As mentioned elsewhere, pension payments should not be regarded as a 'welfare' payment. And in response to elsewhere, austerity was a cheap Tory response to their fallacious 'household budget/spend within your means' philosophy and an excuse to not provide decent facilities and services. Another snag is that, while austerity might reduce public debt, it tends to increase the level of private debts taken on by companies and households. |