Blair necessities
IT is obvious to everyone — except a clutch of deluded Left-wing MPs — that Britain’s benefits madness cannot continue.
In a new report, Labour’s most successful election-winning leader sends a message to Sir Keir Starmer over badly needed welfare reform: Get on with it.
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Keir Starmer MUST break the cycle of dependency as Britain’s benefits madness cannot continue Credit: Reuters
The Tony Blair Institute rightly insists having 1,000 people signing on sick every day isn’t sustainable.
Especially when welfare spending — which will hit £73billion for health and disability benefits by 2030 — starves other urgent priorities of funding, such as defence.
The Government, it says, could solve the welfare crisis at a stroke by ending claims for mild conditions like anxiety and depression.
Classifying these illnesses as “non work-limiting” would not only save money and stop the easy scams.
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It would also break the cycle of dependency and show getting back to work is more likely to HELP people mentally recover.
The question is: does Starmer have the stomach for the fight?
Green goblin
THERE was a time when the Green Party was all about environmental activism.
Some of Zack Polanki’s crackpot proposals appear to fit that bill — such as a 55mph limit, to further slow down our jammed motorways.
But the new-look party is about much more than eco-warrior stunts not rooted in the real world.
A small army of of cranks, loons, radical Islamists and Jew-haters is standing for the Greens at the upcoming elections.
And there’s nothing remotely harmless about these dangers to society, who often prey on young people’s lack of life experience, or stoke sectarian division.
The idea of Polanski’s fanatics ending up in a rainbow coalition of chaos — in town halls, and possibly Westminster — should fill voters with dread.
Nicking a living
KEIR Starmer reckons the tide could be turning on the epidemic of shoplifting.
The Prime Minister points to a 17 per cent rise in the number of offenders charged and an overall fall of 1.1 per cent in the number of offences.
That will be small comfort to embattled shop-keepers.
As we reveal today, police in some areas have effectively given up on pursuing the thieves — closing 90 per cent of cases within weeks without identifying a suspect.
Starmer rightly calls the shoplifting free-for-all a “disgrace”.
Now he needs to prove to those working for a living that those who are stealing it from them will actually be sent to jail.
