From: Lawrence Jenkins on 31 Jul 2010 04:52 "Mozzer" <mozzer.mozzer(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:i30kpv$j4t$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Planned welfare reforms will deliver a �480 million blow to the Scottish > economy, according to a report out yesterday. > > The figure combines loss in benefits to those on Incapacity Benefit, and > reductions in entitlement for those on Disability Living Allowance (DLA), > which were announced in the emergency budget. > > > 76% of those who before would have claimed incapacity benefit were being > rejected for its replacement, the Employment and Support Allowance or were > abandoning claims before completing a strict new medical test. > > http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/welfare-shake-up-will-cost-scotland-480m-1.1045038?localLinksEnabled=false > > 76% ? excellent news, about time something was done about the fake > incapacity and DLA claims.There should be a massive saving when it is > rolled out to England. The most killing benefit on the budget is Housing Benefit currently running at just over 22 billion and rising. with the average three bedroom house costing the state �1000 every four weeks.
From: Lawrence Jenkins on 31 Jul 2010 07:13 "Mozzer" <mozzer.mozzer(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:i30kpv$j4t$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Planned welfare reforms will deliver a �480 million blow to the Scottish > economy, according to a report out yesterday. > > The figure combines loss in benefits to those on Incapacity Benefit, and > reductions in entitlement for those on Disability Living Allowance (DLA), > which were announced in the emergency budget. > > > 76% of those who before would have claimed incapacity benefit were being > rejected for its replacement, the Employment and Support Allowance or were > abandoning claims before completing a strict new medical test. > > http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/welfare-shake-up-will-cost-scotland-480m-1.1045038?localLinksEnabled=false > > 76% ? excellent news, about time something was done about the fake > incapacity and DLA claims.There should be a massive saving when it is > rolled out to England. One more thing Mozzer 480 million as opposed to 22 billion HB, 12 billion DLA And compared to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UKExpenditure.svg
From: Lawrence Jenkins on 6 Aug 2010 09:01 "Ron" <ihatespam(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:lKmdnZ1toN2GNsvR4p2dnAA(a)giganews.com... > > > "Lawrence13" wrote in message > news:877931bf-52d6-4e8c-bac3-071009a8358a(a)i19g2000pro.googlegroups.com... > > On Aug 1, 3:14 am, Justin Thyme <h...(a)lo.com> wrote: >> On 31/07/2010 13:22, Ron wrote: >> >> >> >> > I blame Thatcher >> > LOL >> >> Most intelligent people realise that Thatcher gave a massive boost to >> the the 'greed is good' mentality that ensured we became a less caring >> and decent society. > > Sorry Justin > > All our problems of behaviour and attitude come from 59 years of > social marxism where everyone else is to blame bar the culprits > > > 35 of them years we have had the Tories in power > > I should have said post war Ron but lets face it whoever was in power didn't make any difference to the growth of social Marxism but I believe the real turning point was funnily enough the Thatcher years. When she humiliated that giant dinosaur the TUC they went from being household names and mentioned constantly in satire and comedy to being virtually unknown. in the space of ten years. It's was then that the radical left gave up on the TUC and moved into local government and all other walks of life as well as taking up its new religion environmentalism
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