Quote Originally Posted by boyla View Post
Problem with the UK, is if you don't work your quality of life, at least financially is better than someone who works.
That is not even true for most people on minimum wage jobs. I agree that anyone working should be taking home more than those who are unemployed but the problem is not the unemployed, it is the poor stagnated wages of the average working person when the disparity between them and those at the very top is indefensibly propped up by the policies of a political class who are intent on keeping it that way. The tax threshold should be higher to encourage working, yes, but very few want to live their life paying off a landlord rather than a mortgage and having the stigma of not being employed.

Anyone can find themselves claiming benefits through no fault of their own. It does not help when the minority are reckless with their choices are are fraudulent but they are the minority and the problem is in the avoidance of tax by the super rich who are trying to normalise people like veterans and the disabled falling through the net and dying whilst that 1% avoid acting responsibly.