Care for the Elderly

[Hugh]

Who ever gets in will have sort out Brown debts before they can do any thing about pensions. The first thing I expect will happen workers will not be able to retire at 65. The loafers will be alright they will be happy collecting their credits and unemployment's money and earning beer money on the side, and young ladies will continue to have babies at 15 and jump the housing queue and then live off the welfare. Young couples who work and want a council house have no chance. Welfare should be for the needy who need our help not the the work shy stay in bed loafer.

[Ivanhoe]

//////Welfare should be for the needy who need our help not the the work shy stay in bed loafer. //////

Can you provide statistics on the workshy please ?.

You make the judgement, you provide the statistics.

[Ivanhoe]

...////////"The British welfare state is a good thing" - envied by the world at large even if it could be simplified and applied more accurately and more rigorously./////

This can only mean a more stringent means test for jobless claiments.

[Papaumau]

I think an effective but much more simplified means test is what is needed if the rich  - or the well off - are not to be able to claim benefits.

THAT is what means testing is all about after all.