[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

You were and so was he when you lumped 64% of 9.2 million claiming one or fewer benefits in together, just assuming we are all work shy scroungers and how unsustainable it is

I don't know why you're posting like you do. For a country to pay benefits, it needs money. This comes from taxation. When the country is as screwed as the UK is, and with 9.2 million claiming benefits, there isn't enough cash raised by taxation to pay those benefits without borrowing on the currency markets.

Thus the economy has to grow so that taxation receipts by the government can rise. That's not happening. So it's unsustainable.

It matters not that Ratcliffe said that, nor that he is rich. He can be a bad person and still be right.