From: Lawrence Jenkins on

"Mozzer" <mozzer.mozzer(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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

"Mozzer" <mozzer.mozzer(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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

"Ron" <ihatespam(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Lawrence13" wrote in message
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>
> 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