To think benefits need to be cut to fund increased spending on defence

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This is absolutely necessary. Keir Starmer shouldnt have backed down the last time. But now with the current situation with Russia drastic steps need to be taken. We simply can't afford to sustain the current benefits bill with the armed forces so depleted. The money is needed to increase defence.

And while you were looking that way, Elon just became the world’s first trillionnaire. What a time to be alive.

You clearly have no idea.

Doesn't work that way, as you well know.

We need to make cuts all over - pensions. Housing benefit -surely the more you pay the more the landlord asks, receivers of benefits need reassessed. Taxis to take children to school - if there is a car in the household surely a parent has the responsibility. One child per taxi !?!

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No idea about free money?

No I don't get any.

Wish I could....but I work and pay for everything like Shaz does and it's taken from my payslip to hers...

It's at a max amount.

The issue is lots of benefit fraud by the 25%

Glad you aren't in charge.

Offshore accounts are allowed because why not.

You do realise that money paid into a UK company is delacired?

Does that really happen?

Yet it's ok for you to claim PIP whilst renting out 12 buy to let properties ? I say means test PIP .

Put all NHS under one management board, cut all the executives that are paid but don't affect patient outcomes. Bring all schools back under council control & get rid of the overpaid executives heads.

Well done for working, you realise that many people work and have benefits, perhaps that should be taken away from them to make people like you feel better.

I think a big issue with taxis is that most parents have more than 1 child and they can't physically drive their SEND child potentially miles to the SEN school when they also have at least 1 more child to get to school.

Transport can also be easier for the school to manage a large number of SEND children at drop offs and pick ups too, especially if several are known to elope rather than parents dropping off in dribs and drabs. Safety is important too.

Why can’t the companies that make a lot of profit just make slightly less?

All kids get the early years education hours regardless of whether parents work , but it is meant to help kids who wouldn't otherwise go to a nursery.

Studies show that free nursery hours can help disadvantaged children start school more in line with their peers as opposed to behind them.

It is to benefit the children, not the parents.

I know there isn’t a pot with my name on it. There is, however, a social contract that I signed up to when I started work millennia ago that I would receive a state pension at the end of my working life. When a contract is broken compensation is paid.

Really bad idea. Most people on benefits who don't work is due to disability or being carers kids need a break from this environment its not always pleasant the reality of severe disability.

Start with the triple lock?

Means test pensions and other benefits

Tax wealth not just wages.

Remove tax evasion and avoidance. Harsh fines.

The benefits bill is not the issue it’s funding other countries wars & you do know the biggest benefits claimants family are the RF, nearly 150ml a year to people who have private businesses and are worth billions.

The main thing with benefits is the majority of the money does come back to the govt.

We need to tax wealth not income!

A one off 1% wealth tax would balance the books.

Thank you, I was just curious. Always good to learn something! I can see the value.

Ok... But I'm a full time registered nurse getting topped up with benefits because I obviously couldn't forsee that my kids' dad would walk out. Can you please advise which of my kids I should ask to crawl back inside so I can 'cut my cloth' as you put it? Is it a last in first out thing, or should I be assessing them based on earning potential in the future and eliminating the one most likely to be a financial burden on society, and if so do I do that based on their own income as an adult, or their likelihood to procreate and produce additional financial burden?

Or of course I could move north so that COL is cheaper, except then I'd have no family to help with childcare, so I either wouldn't be able to work, or would need support to fund childcare, to enable me to work... Hmm, I'm seeing a problem with this plan of yours...

For those of you who say cut pensions, stop the triple lock, do you think the uk state pension level is ok? So let’s get rid of the triple lock which is meant gradually to bring the state pension to a realistic level, and start right now with increasing pensions to a living “wage” and go from there.

The pension bill makes up the majority of welfare bill. Cutting the other benefits will only make a dent in what they need.
Unfortunately state pension is no longer substanable and it must be reformed.

Are yiou going to tell the pensioners for him OP?

Tax the rich, prepare for climate change and stop fighting pointless wars