Britains benefits system stays unchanged‚ despite Keir Starmerʼs new work plan thats being promoted as ground-breaking. The system which supports about 10-million economically-inactive people (a nice way to say they dont work) needs real change - but it wont happen
Back in my MP days I saw this first-hand at a local-party meeting. A charity-worker came to speak and said something that still bugs me today: she claimed not working was a “human right“ while getting benefits
People had a human right not to work while maintaining the right to benefits
The new Labour governmentʼs so-called radical plan just makes job-centres easier to use and offers some re-training support - if people feel like it. Next year theyll have a consultation where well-paid poverty-industry experts will make sure nothing really changes
The math doesnt work: state spending keeps growing while tax money keeps shrinking. Sure some people say “but what about pensioners“ - thats different because they worked and paid into the system for 40-plus years. The governments promise to stop benefit-fraud is just another over-used excuse that never works
- Job-centres will get updates
- Optional re-training programs
- Benefits system stays mostly same
- More consultations coming up
The whole thing needs a complete re-build but politicians just pass problems to the next group of law-makers: nobody wants to make hard choices that might make voters angry