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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
You know, reading that and the first part of your signature you could easily be describing PFI with that statement. Incompetence in those matters appears to be something that applies to politicians generally rather than one party.
This scheme has the rather pleasing, for this government, effects of flattering them in terms of unemployment and keeping wages down by keeping the supply of labour higher at the low end.
It's a waste of taxpayer funds of course, but few politicians care about that when it comes to their own political interests.
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The Tories started this stupid idea of buy now pay later and Labour continued it with another name. It costs taxpayers a heck of a lot more in the long run, but in the short term, it allows the Govt. to build hospitals etc and not have to find the money to pay for them- thus creating a false illusion of low taxes and money for public services.
I guess if Labour had not continued, the tories would have accused them of putting up taxes and spending less on public services. It's a great deal for the older generation, but very poor for our children and grandchildren.
JSA claimants are now being routinely 'sanctioned' for the most trivial and spurious of reasons.
Some examples of this are a person who was sanctioned for not looking for work on Christmas day, another for not turning up for an appointment whilst in a coma and a young man with an exemplary work seeking record who was sanctioned for three months for being 10 mins late to an appointment when his bike suffered a puncture.
Whilst sanctioned, these people are taken out of the unemployment figures.
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Originally Posted by denphone
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Benefit fraud must be tackled, but it is a lot less than the Govt. would have us believe. They never mention the vast amount not claimed by eligible people, nor the cost of tax evasion, which dwarfs benefit fraud.
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Originally Posted by ianch99
Well said. No one objects when the Tories slash social services but there will hell to pay when someone with mental health issues, for example, who otherwise may have been monitored and helped, commits a serious crime ..
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Indeed.
I recently received a fat cheque from HMRC due to the tax cuts. I would much rather that the money was spent on the NHS, so it's there when I need it. I also feel uncomfortable that I have received this, whilst genuinely needy people are being evicted and reduced to using food banks.
Don't forget that even those with private health cover need the NHS Accident & Emergency service
