The UK now spends more on welfare (£333 billion) than it collects in income tax receipts (£331 billion)

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About 1% goes to the genuinely needly, with the rest funding the existence of people like this:

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1 +1 pdnow 5 minutes ago

Where's your evidence that 99% goes to "people like this" when you say "about 1% goes to the genuinely needly, with the rest funding the existence of people like this"? As someone with friends who had addiction, disability, homeless sometimes, sometimes VETERANS, I don't care for lumping them all together as "undeserving, they're all violent like people" in the video but the facts are wrong in other ways:

Fact: A huge part of the UK social security budget actually goes to pensioners. The single largest chunk of "welfare" is the state pension (about £146 BILLION), which goes to individuals who WORKED AND PAID INTO THE SYSTEM for DECADES.

Math says 146/333 is 44%. So nearly HALF goes to them.

The UK Statistics Authority responded to politicians' fear mongering and noted "approximately 55% of social security expenditure is spent on pensioners." This higher number includes the State Pension plus other pensioner-specific benefits (like Pension Credit, Housing Benefit for pensioners, and WINTER FUEL Payment) for ELDERLY pensioners who PAID INTO the system for decades, to repeat that point.

The OP is not a commie I don't think so I don't think they want to take away what people worked to pay into and earn: they paid into the system https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-guidance-and-methodology/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-information-and-guidance

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1 +1 pdnow 2 minutes ago

@pdnow 2/Whether we think the 44% or 55% is more accurate, so much for:

"only 1% are deserving, other 99% are like the violent folks in this video!" claim.

Not 99% not 90% not even half, only 45% goes to non-pensioners given that 55%

Then there's the fact that MOST people in wheelchairs are NOT violent like the folks here, let's be honest about that!

3/The sort of implication "First Time in History" is false, organizations like Full Fact have debunked it, UK welfare spending (state pensions, universal credit, disability allowance, housing benefits) has consistently been higher than income tax receipts EVERY SINGLE year for over a decade, dating back to at least 2013/14.

4/ So is the UK "out of money" because welfare outstrips income tax? Nope, income tax only accounts for about a QUARTER of total government revenues. The UK collects OVER £1.2 trillion in total revenue including VAT, National Insurance contributions, and Corporation Tax.

5/I'm sure there's plenty of BAD APPLES gaming the system, I can agree on THAT, and for fighting against that. But making up "only 1% are deserving" stats out of thin air doesn't help that cause. Also, speaking of Corporation Tax, how about making Big Tech pay more taxes in the UK, as well as here in the US?

2 +1 justanothersurfer 1 hour ago

my country is now a shithole

1 +1 ZuluHunters 1 hour ago

Play a video going around towns in the 50s 60s 70s.. we have all been diluted to retards in comparison to the older generations. And its not race specific either the evidence is everywhere to see.

6 +1 graphicism 2 hours ago

Haha, give them even more money.

The plan is to stir up enough civil unrest in England that we can step in and police them, introduce digital IDs, and really tighten the screws. But first, they’ve gotta start fighting. Any day now.

Then, once it works in the UK, we can roll it out across the world, right as AI makes people lose even more trust in their governments and world leaders.

1 +1 essence25 1 hour ago

@graphicism Precisely!