Finally got to watch it...
20 million people on benefits. Britain's total benefit bill is £166-billion, £1.2-billion of that a year is down to fraud, less than 1% of the total benefits bill.
Payments to pensioners make up more than half the social security spend.
£16 billion of benefits left unclaimed.
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Found this to be a good read.
Inciting hatred against the poor and hungry – a new British bigotry
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That food bank users are blamed for their own impoverishment is to imply that they have more choices, power and agency than the banks that created the 2007/8 financial crash and the political establishment that bailed them out with our money.
That the Red Cross has to distribute food parcels in this country for the first time since 1948 shows a sickness at the core of one of the world’s richest nations - anger about that sickness should not be directed against the people who are obliged to endure its symptoms, but against the government which has overseen such a shameful development.
We must not allow this perversion of the truth and the crass scapegoating of the poorest in British society to remain unchallenged.
Let us not judge people by the colour of their skin, their religious beliefs, their gender or by their relative poverty.
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Britain's Public Enemy #1
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It is not a war against debt at all – it is a war against the poor.
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Anyone in poverty is a target – the working poor, the unemployed poor, poor people with disabilities, poor immigrants, sick people with little money and old people with no money. Every day the war on debt implicitly blames, stigmatises and punishes those without the money or power to defend themselves.
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