Better Off On Benefits?

For many people the chance of finding paid employment where they live is very unlikely.  Towns and Villages across the East Midlands and Wales that were once thriving industrial areas are now ghost towns as factories and mines have closed their doors as greedy employers have opted for cheaper labor in Eastern Europe or Asia instead.  The current and previous governments have no intention of helping those people get back into work, as they know that once they get them on the benefit cycle, most will not be able to get off.  Over time the long term claimants will feel helpless without government support, so vote Labour to protect their benefits.

A recent article on the Russia Today website focused on the fact that Britain is at the top of the household jobless league table, compared to other major E.U countries. The report states that one sixth of all children live in a workless household. And with the economy heading for a double-dip, the number of people that are on long-term unemployment benefit is on the rise.

The report also went on to ask if the generous benefits system has created a generation of career claimants.

As an example, they interviewed a single Mother with four children, who has never worked, and asked her if she felt that $20,000 worth of benefits per year was enough to live on.  Her response was, "it is barely enough to stay afloat."  This is not unusal, as reports have shown that benefit dependency can become a way of life for many families across Britain.  For this family, the cycle has already started, as the claimant's 17 year old daughter has already had her first child.

The British National Party's Policy is as follows:

- Only the British National Party has the plan to reverse these decades of disastrous Labour and Tory social engineering programmes – through a sensible policy of workfare, not welfare.



The principle is simple: those who receive community support incur obligations as well. People who genuinely want to work must be provided with the opportunity to do so in return for training which will put them back into proper full-time employment.

In return for financial support and training for a new career, the benefit recipient must complete a certain number of hours of work per week. Properly implemented, this policy will undermine the benefit dependency culture and bring masses of unemployed back into the formal employment sector.

Ultimately there must be only one category of welfare recipient: those who genuinely deserve or have earned it. The scrounger entitlement mentality must be discarded. Those who can work but refuse to do so, must face the consequences of their actions on their own. -