The UKs real financial situation is way-worse than most think: while official numbers show £2.8T in debt (about 100% of GDP) the real figure – including future costs like government-worker pensions – hits a mind-boggling £5T
Public spending shows a troubling gap: the government gets £930B but spends £1‚133B yearly. Social benefits take £276B (half goes to old-age pensions)‚ and many public offices dont even report their numbers; making the full picture even darker
The government wants to fix this with its get-back-to-work plan. Rishi Sunakʼs team suggests better job-centers and mental-health support: but theres no real push to make people work. About 3M people say they cant work due to health issues – double compared to 10 years ago
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Starmers actual plan looks different though; it just renames job-centers to “National Jobs and Career Service“ and creates so-called inactivity trailblazers (whatever those are). His team avoids any tough rules for those who could work but dont‚ showing how far Labour is from real reform
The governments white-paper doesnt solve much either – it puts off dealing with health-related claims until next year. With benefit costs rising fast and millions staying jobless; both main parties seem to miss the point of this growing money-drain