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General Discussion Area / Re: Prediction
« on: Yesterday at 18:41:34 »From an article in today's Telegraph by Daniel Hannan.
Consider, one more time, some of the statistics.
Around 3,000 people a day are signed off as too sick to work. The total number of claimants is forecast by the government to go from 3.3 million to 4.1 million by the end of this parliament.
According to the NHS Confederation, in 2021-22, 63,392 people went straight from university onto long-term sickness benefits.
The fastest rise is among 25- to 34-year-olds, an incredible increase of 69 per cent in five years. (Incredible in every sense: such a sudden and cataclysmic explosion in disability would surely be visible on the streets.)
In Birmingham, one in four working-age adults is inactive. One. In. Four. Even at the height of the Great Depression, the proportion in our second city never rose so high. Then, mass worklessness was treated as the most important challenge facing the nation; now, we barely notice.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/12/reform-welfare-or-failed-state-britain-only-choice/
Ah, Sir Tigger, you have now got to the hub of the issue
It is not just the small boat issue, but a far, far bigger challenge; the issue of what “our own” people are up to. Not a lot many would argue!. Just look at the NHS. It is run by very good people originally from abroad. When I was in hospital all staff were from across the planet! The doctors, nurses, porters, down to the cleaners.
Then I was in my dentists the other day, where all the medical staff were from Asia and other foreign lands. Only the receptionists were orginally from Britain!
Then, of course, the regular one is the nail bars and car wash outlets; all run by those from all over the World.
Then there is the Amazon delivery staff, who are all of a “foreign” background, almost without exception!
So where are our youngsters? Obviously many are actively in work, but as the figures suggest so many are just on their backsides, making excuses why they are not fit to work and taking welfare payments. 50 to 60 years ago that was not the case as we left school knowing we had to work. We had the work ethic drummed into us by our parents. What the fk is happening now?!!
No, it is not the boat people we should be worrying about, but our own!!
Now I could get very politically right wing, but I will leave that to others
