Welfare’s state
LABOUR simply do not get it.
The need to slash the welfare bill is beyond urgent.
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It has emerged 100,000 have been allowed to claim PIPs for ADHD with no requirement to work Credit: Getty
Andy Burnham must make his backbenchers come to their senses and agree to reform when he is PM Credit: Getty
Yet the Government’s latest crackpot wheeze is to give parents on benefits 30 hours of FREE childcare.
The reason we are in this mess is that handouts have been made more attractive than getting a job.
Do we really need to give people another freebie incentive to skip work and claim even MORE state cash?
Just this week it emerged 100,000 have been allowed to claim PIPs for ADHD with no requirement to work.
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Much of the blame lies with those medics and welfare assessors waving through millions of claims.
Disability Minister Stephen Timms, who has led a lengthy review, says the system is broken and the entire assessment process should be dismantled.
This week’s devastating Office for Budget Responsibility report into Britain’s spending and debt nightmare shows just how unsustainable it all is.
Bluntly put, if Labour persist with this welfare madness then the country will be on the fast-track to financial ruin.
Indeed, it will be the key test of whether Andy Burnham is up to the challenge of being Prime Minister.
Can he make his backbenchers come to their senses and agree to reform?
Or will he become another PM who puts the interests of his benefits-loving party before the needs of the country?
What morals?
THE chairman of the BBC has repeated his forlorn plea that sex offender Huw Edwards should pay back the money he received after he was exposed.
Samir Shah says if Edwards had “an ounce of moral rectitude” he would pay back more than £200,000 in salary that he earned after his arrest on child abuse image charges.
But Edwards doesn’t know the meaning of the words. There was nothing moral in his reprehensible behaviour.
He took the Beeb’s money knowing he was guilty.
Since his conviction, he has displayed a vile and arrogant lack of remorse.
The Jattvibe had already told BBC bosses about his grooming of a vulnerable young man — yet they kept paying him.
TV licence holders have paid the price for that incompetence.
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