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Similarly, the second largest chunk of the UK welfare payouts goes to the working poor, at 20.8%. Payments to the unemployed are at 2.57%. The government bring
by JonnieCache 13y ago
Similarly, the second largest chunk of the UK welfare payouts goes to the working poor, at 20.8%. Payments to the unemployed are at 2.57%.
The government brings this constant drip-drip of poisonous rhetoric about scroungers, when what's really happening is the ultra-rich are scrounging from the middle class to subsidise their empires while keeping the poor mentally broken and unable to form a political force. I should really start some sort of PR campaign, there's an election next year.
Data: http://www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn13.pdf http://www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn13.pdf
- arethuza 13y agoBut that 2.57% is still £5.164 billion a year - which is rather a lot of money. Mind you, I take your point - from the way that the problem is described by the Daily Mail crowd (ironically, in my experience, often retired people) you'd think that 90% of welfare payments were going to the unemployed.
- anon1385 13y ago>I should really start some sort of PR campaign, there's an election next year. Nice try but the toffs are one step ahead of you and are banning such political campaigns in an election year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_of_Lobbying,_Non-party_Campaigning_and_Trade_Union_Administration_Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_of_Lobbying,_Non-... https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/m/74c04b7f/2d565a2f/52107803/4669ffc2/214504013/VEsE/ https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/m/74c04b7f/2d565a2f/521... Campaigns could fall within regulation if they: -promote policies which, for whatever reason, are associated with one or more political parties or candidates – such as housing, welfare, a referendum on EU membership, wind farms or HS2. As you might imagine a huge range of campaign groups and charities are up in arms about this.