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Bottom Falls Out On Support of Welfare By The British Populace
Steven Van Riel, Labour’s director of policy at the last election, recommends that if party activists travelling to their annual conference in Manchester on Sunday want to read something truly frightening, they should bring the annual survey of what their fellow citizens think.
He is right, especially when it comes to attitudes about welfare. The latest British Social Attitudes survey spells out in agonising detail the collapse in support over the past decade or so for social security spending and what might be called poor peoples’ welfare.
In 1991 58 per cent of Britons agreed that government should spend more on benefits even if it led to higher taxes. That figure is now down to 28 per cent. More than half believe people would “stand on their own two feet” if benefits were less generous, with only 20 per cent disagreeing. In 1993 the responses were almost exactly the reverse.
Unneutral
September 29th, 2012
Being self-sufficient brings the greatest pride.
chico
September 29th, 2012
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”
Margaret Thatcher
bitterclinger
September 29th, 2012
Bwahahahahaha! More ammo President Romney can cite when majorly tightening up welfare, fraudulent disability payments and food stamps.
AvgDude
September 29th, 2012
All the welfare state does, as it has been applied in Western societies, is reward people for being stupid, indolent, lazy, scamming assholes, and then allowing them to safely raise psychopathic offspring that actively destroy our society from within while contributing absolutely nothing of positive value at any level.
scr_north
September 29th, 2012
Well, the british people are finally catching up with Maggie Thatcher. You know, with the exception of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher I’m hard pressed to think of any modern western leaders that believed in the freedom of the individual, the shrinking of government and the ability of a free man to be as successful as he or she wishes to be without the interference of the state. Leaders that want to unleash the individual because they know that’s the only true way for all to grow and benefit.
The Doktor
September 29th, 2012
Just like pissin’ into the ocean, it’s a start.
Keyser Söze
September 29th, 2012
“Money can’t buy happiness…but it can buy free time to pursue other endeavors.”
(author unknown)
From the above statement, we can see the violence in America can be linked back directly to Liberals. For it is they who have created and support the Welfare state. If not for Welfare, the dregs and slugs of society would not have the free time to pursue larcenous activities. By paying people to not work, offers an opportunity for the idle mind to create and pursue unlawful activity in the form of gangbanging, drug dealing, prostitution, extortion, GUN RUNNING, protection rackets, drive-by shootings, burglary, battery, rape and a whole host of other crimes these creatures of the ghetto have yet to discover, but are working feverishly at inventing more everyday.
Working people on the other hand, have to actually wake up early, commute to work, put in 8 to 10 hours, commute home from work, take care of themselves and or family members. Participation in this working environment takes both a mental and physical toll on a person, forcing them into bed in order to get rested, so they may repeat the routine all over again the next day. This type of work schedule does not leave a whole lot of free time for the pursuit of crime and racketeering.
If the Liberals are truly serious about reducing shootings and crime, they need to realize their so called compassion for Welfare must end immediately. This will rob the ghetto dwellers of their much needed financing, to have the free time required for a life of crime.
An empty belly and rain drops on their head will be the incentive to change their ways and outlook on life.
Chuck U Farley
September 30th, 2012
I gotta register to continue reading the article?
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope….
So Mother England’s saggy teat is starting to dry up ay?
Social Security for those that do not pay into the system. Disability checks. Free mortgage. Free college tuition. Free condoms. Obamaphones. Wonder how long it will take to dry up in the former republic of the United States of America?
Dagny
September 30th, 2012
add to that add a massive immigration of muslims…
the UK is doomed.
**** !
September 30th, 2012
i better start lookin for some Nigel Farage ‘tubes
even Delingpole and HIS mates dig the dude