Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
I haven't seen anything about him wanting to cut peoples' dole. I have seen where he wants to get the two million on incapacity benefit back to work. A study just published says four out of five of them are malingerers and fit enough to work. He doesn't want to cut taxes, taxes are going up for everybody. Top earners in the UK are paying 60% one way or another and this may increase under the Conservatives. He is a posh Tory boy though, Old Etonian and everything. He'll p[robably just fiddle about in the margins though, do a bit of gesture politics on some issues like benefits but not really be all that different to Labour.
My main beef with the UK is the benefits system. There are too many who take advantage of it and sit around doing nothing but smoking cheap illegally imprted cigarettes. I have no qualm with a job seekers allowance for a period of up to six months, but people need to learn how to look after themselves. They have free health care and a decent education system...that should be enough in my eyes. If you can't get a job in the supermarket after all that has been granted then your life support should be cut off. The sense of entitlement in the UK is shocking and needs to be eradicated.

I'm no Tory, but this is one area where I have little sympathy.