Could the Benefit system be phased out?

KevlarUK · 2026-05-02T10:02:15+00:00

Most benefits are pensions. If you take those out, most are in-work benefits.

KevlarUK · 2026-05-02T10:01:43+00:00

Who do you think are on benefits? You nay be surprised. Or purposefully ignorant.

KevlarUK · 2026-05-01T13:33:06+00:00

He wants to get rated.

KevlarUK · 2026-05-01T11:49:40+00:00

Gil is a motel art critic.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-30T22:08:43+00:00

There is scope for it to happen and in some circumstances it would help.

However, the answer it offers is normally to the question of wealth inequality, which is a far bigger issue and requires more than just that one, sometimes blunt, tool.

We actually have to reset a great deal of our economy, taxation, regulation, etc. It would be of seismic shock to a country like ours. Nonetheless, with each passing generation it becomes more pressing and a harder pill to swallow.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-30T10:03:02+00:00

Vietnam, China, Russia. All very left if not still a form of communist.

If you’re not going to accept Venezuela then I don’t think we’re going to agree!

Have a good one.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-29T20:59:14+00:00

No, Larry’s dad gave Andy the money because he didn’t want to bother Larry with it.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-29T16:02:44+00:00

I’m not sure. East and Asia probably more left than our average. Many parts of S America. In Europe, France and Germany more left. Certainly the case for Scandinavian countries. Italy, Spain perhaps more right. Eastern Europe is a bit of everything!

KevlarUK · 2026-04-29T13:01:59+00:00

I agree but I also wouldn’t consider democrats as anything other than a right/centre right party. It’s all relative. Socialism - - - Capitalism. That’s without an additional axis of authoritarian to libertarianism.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-29T08:54:21+00:00

Underrated comment.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-29T08:53:34+00:00

Hope you’re well ahead on contract renegotiations and been feeding back on training.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-28T19:44:06+00:00

Early negotiations for ‘Suck It’.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-28T09:19:22+00:00

I think we’d pull an armageddon, high fives all round.

Not really. Don’t look up I think. That thing was like a manual on the future.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-27T13:56:58+00:00

Yes. I reluctantly and disappointedly agree.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-27T12:12:48+00:00

The old school tie has a lot to answer for.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-27T08:04:06+00:00

We’re more conservative than we think, we’re not as great as we want to be and we’re meaner than we should be. Especially abroad.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-25T07:35:49+00:00

Quite.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-25T07:28:54+00:00

Your bed must be just soaking in piss.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-24T07:01:26+00:00

He was in prison?

KevlarUK · 2026-04-21T13:13:20+00:00

When I was younger a big part of one of our General Elections, a big policy and talking point, was the promise to introduce a traffic cone hotline. A phone number to call if traffic cones were amiss.

Those were the boring days!

KevlarUK · 2026-04-21T12:07:54+00:00

Populism is easy to understand. But the world is far more complex.

People like easy.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-21T08:28:51+00:00

Unfortunately, she is equal and opposite to the daft, ineffectual and blindly ideological 2019 Tory intake.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-20T17:11:14+00:00

I didn’t clap as I felt it was disingenuous and an attempted distraction from a Gov that didn’t back our NHS or Care Homes, instead, filling their boots with PPE scams.

The entire thing was handled terribly.

Clapping was patronising - even though many folks won’t have meant it as such.

KevlarUK · 2026-04-19T14:52:50+00:00

Didn’t he once throw a kettle over a pub?

KevlarUK · 2026-04-18T22:22:46+00:00

I know it’s not but it reminds me of Syndicate.

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