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Thursday, February 23 2012

Lord Carey backs benefits cap

Lord George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has backed the government's plans for a £26,000 benefits cap.

Writing in a national newspaper today, he argues the current welfare system is rewarding "fecklessness and irresponsibility".

Lord Carey, who was Archbishop of Canterbury between 1991 and 2002, said the scale of Britain's public debt is the "greatest moral scandal" facing the country.

The government has said it will push on with its benefits plan despite suffering a defeat in the House of Lords.

Ministers want to cap welfare handouts at £500 a week for working-age families - equivalent to the average wage of £26,000 earned by working households - and £350 a week for single adults without children.

But peers have passed an amendment that calls for child benefits to be excluded from the calculation.

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  • bwdu wrote:

    BWDU has no links to any UK political party or organisation. We are against racist, religious or any other kind of discrimination.We do not particularly support or follow any UK political party, movement or organisation but we would like everyone to hear our voice and opinion, analyse and compare them with all other ideas and support us if our ideas are better than others.
    Year after year the cost of living, public transport fares and petrol prices keep going up, retirement age is increasing so a lot of older people will never reach it and will not get their pension, taxes and national insurance contributions are getting higher and it is getting very difficult to keep up with all the living costs, paying for the mortgage and bringing up children.On another hand some UK benefit claimants enjoy their living in much bigger properties in much better areas and managing to buy expensive cars and go on holidays without doing any work.It could all change for better if all the money from tax and national contributions were not wasted on Welfare for people who are able to work themselves. Big and small companies are avoiding paying corporation taxes they should pay by hiding their profits on offshore bank accounts.Billions of pounds are wasted year after year.


    Most of disabled people and people who just lost their jobs do need some help but they are unable to get it sometimes. But why most of the asylum seekers come into this country and get all the benefits straight away without making any effort to work and learn English language? After a couple of years living on benefits they obtain British passports and still carry on living on the dole. Also everyone from EU who comes into this country is eligible to claim all the benefits without contributing to the UK economy at all.

    On another hand there are hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the UK willing to work and contribute but unfortunately they have no right to work here legally so most of them work for cash and keep sending most of their earnings back home and after couple of years of work they leave the country without paying any taxes on their earnings. Why British workers have to carry this burden on their own shoulders and why do they have to pay for everyone who does not wish to contribute into British economy, who does not try to respect British traditions, values and hospitality?


    British workers defence union has a few simple solutions to sort out all this mess:


    1) Stop giving Benefits to everyone who has never bothered to work full time or part time or even for a short period of time unless they are disabled. If there is no work they should take community work from the councils they wish to carry on receiving benefits till they find a proper job.
    2) Stop giving benefits to all Asylum seekers for no longer then 6 month and give them the right to earn their British citizenship by making them doing some work and paying taxes for 6 years at least, if there is no work they should take community or voluntary work if they want to carry on claiming their benefits till they find a proper job.
    3) Stop giving benefits to all EU citizens unless they worked in the UK for 6 years at least and if they loose their jobs and wish to receive some benefits for a short period of time they should do community or voluntary work to earn their welfare payments.
    4) Stop giving benefits to non genuine single mothers but trace the fathers of their children and make them pay some part for their children living by making them to do some extra community work at the weekends if they can not afford to pay for their children from their jobs.
    5) Reduce all kinds of child benefits for families with more then 3 children, 4th child will be only receiving half, 5th the quarter, 6th none of the child benefit. If parents can not afford to look after all of their children then the oldest ones could be taken away into cares so parents will have more time to find work, again if there is no work they should be asked to do community work to earn their children's benefits and support.

    In the meantime government should put more money into education of our children instead of giving the money to their parents who just use them to buy alcohol and drugs. After school classes and clubs should be available for every child where they can learn more practical skills, exercise and take part in all kinds of sports, learn how to stay away from gangs, drugs, alcohol, unprotected sex, stop bullying the most vulnerable kids at school and look up how to become decent, hard working, law obeying adults when they grow up. The more time children could stay at school the less time they will have to hang around the streets and commit all sorts of crime. Parents of the children who commit crime should be stripped of their benefits or in some cases even deported from the UK for more serious crimes if the children are not old enough to go prison and the parents are not British citizens.Parents must try harder and spend more time to educate and bring up their children properly. Apprenticeship schemes need to be much more developed and the companies should be encouraged to take on more young workers by offering them to reduce their corporation tax rate contributions. Universities should offer at least 30% of free places to the most clever children with the best results on their after school exams so children will have a good purpose to learn harder and get better at school.
    6) All people coming from EU to work in the UK should pay 5% more taxes, from outside EU 7% more taxes then British citizens. It will make them think twice before coming here if they will be able to compete and work for smaller wages then British workers and have a decent living in the UK without any right to claim any benefits.
    7) All of the illegal immigrants should compulsory register under green card scheme and pay 10% more taxes on their wages then UK citizens. They should not have any access to public funds for 10 years at least and after that period they could be able to apply for permanent residency and British citizenship showing that they worked hard and paid all the taxes for those years and learned English fluently. It is impossible and very expensive to deport all of them so it will be worth having those people contributing as well.
    8) Everyone who commits a serious crime or systematically commits any sort of crime should be deported from the UK unless they are British. Abolish Human rights law for terrorist and serious criminals because they do not respect anyone's human rights when they commit their crimes. British citizens should do some work whilst they are in jail to pay off for their living in prison. People should be scared to commit any crime and going to prison where they will not have very nice and easy full of luxuries life.
    9) Introduce use of the lying detectors in UKBA for asylum seekers applications, in Job centres for benefit claimants, in all courts for criminal prosecutions etc. It will dramatically save the country billions of pounds on benefits and ridiculous court and solicitors fees.
    10)Take a serious control over small and large businesses to make sure they pay their full corporation tax on time. Government should have a full access to their business accounts and to their director's and managers personal accounts. In a lot of cases close relative’s bank accounts would need to be checked as well. Introduce large penalties for playing up with the company accounting or avoiding paying corporation taxes. If the company goes bankrupt then the directors and managers should not be walking away with large pensions. They should not be able to hide company money on offshore accounts and have them for a personal use later on.
    Introduce serious banking system where each person is only allowed to have only one bank account which could be easily checked by Inland Revenue at the end of each year. Stop people having a lot of different bank accounts including offshore accounts. Every one must be declaring all their earnings and expenses clearly every year.
    11) BWDU would like to increase personal income tax allowance to £10.000 and keep increasing it every year on same rate as all the living cost is increasing to help low paid workers in the UK.




    EVERYONE must understand that they can not afford just to sit at home doing nothing and expect someone to pay for their living. EVERYONE must be contributing somehow. There is no free money in this country so if you want to come into the UK you should be prepared to work harder and pay more taxes then British citizens and also they must learn the language and respect our traditions.


    We welcome and respect all honest, hard working, skilled people no matter what race or religion they are as long as they are happy to work and integrate into our society. Community and voluntary work should be available for everyone who is out of work. There are plenty of work need to be done such as cleaning roads, parks, rivers, lakes and woods,building more roads and railways, cleaning and painting old houses, look after disabled and old people. We still need a lot more of Police and community support officers to fight of crime and make more visual presence on every train, night bus, on every estate and on every neighbourhood. People should be encouraged to take any low paid jobs expecting that their wages will be topped up by the government or they could have a low rent council accommodation or pay less taxes so they can provide a decent living for themselves and their families. First time buyers should be able to buy their first property with a little 5% deposit so a lot more of hard workers can get on a property ladder at the young age.

    We must all have information how much money has gone into the budget and how much has been spent at the end of each year. This is our money and we should have a firm control on how much and on which projects our money will be spend next year. We must make sure that we spend most of the money on building more schools, hospitals, playgrounds, nurseries and houses in this country and stop giving our money to anyone abroad until we sort all of our problems out first. Every council needs to publish online how much they spent each year. We should make a cap on maximum wages and bonuses for all the managers, directors, and other senior staff working for public sector. A lot of people become very greedy and take more that they need leaving others struggling with their living costs because they have no other choise but to work on a low wages. And if we are not happy how our money were spent we should have a right to re-elect those people every year.

    Also we need to start saving energy and do more recycling. Every property should qualify to obtain free loft insulation, solar panels, wind generators and energy saving lighting. All the houses should become self efficient so we do not have to rely on massive supplies of oil and gas from abroad. We need to help everyone start replacing their old petrol cars with the new generation hybrid or electric cars.

    UK could become a country of friendly, hard working, honest, helpful, useful and happy people were will not be any place for crime, war, destitute, famine or any kind of discrimination. Our children deserve much better and brighter future and they should be very proud to live in the United Kingdom.

    29 Jan 2012 3:27 PM

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  • AndyMaz wrote:

    The benefits system is a joke, always has been.

    The current Government are clearly all on crack.

    25 Jan 2012 12:35 PM

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  • Robster wrote:

    STOP! STOP! STOP!
    What in heavens name are they doing?
    £350 a week for a single adult on benefits?
    I work 5 days a week in a shop, shop hours, and take home around £250.
    What is the point of me working when I can get £100 a week more sitting at home watching the box or sitting in a betting shop all day, or go to ASDA and buy the latest video games...

    This news is absolutely devastating to an honest worker.
    It's no wonder honest clever people are moving to Canada or Australia to find work.

    These benefit seekers are an absolute disgrace to our Country and such a mindless ruling should be scrutinised very very carefully.

    All this idiotic ruling does, is to ENCOURAGE people to become benefit seekers!

    In my honest opinion, I think that benefit seekers should be issued with food vouchers weekly, and clothing vouchers twice a year. End of!

    If you want to live honestly, find a job!

    25 Jan 2012 11:22 AM

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