The Telegraph has an article today on the cost of unemployment, and puts it at £350 million- per year I presume, just the amount the Gov spends on “management consultants”.
There are now 3.3 million households with no one over the age of 16 in employment, up from 240,000 on last year, with 1.9 million children living in families where neither parent works.
The figures, released by the Office for National Statistics, come as the Tories highlight the cost to the taxpayer of paying benefits for those out of work.
In a speech today, Theresa May, the shadow work and pensions secretary, will reveal that a total of £346 billion has been paid out in benefits to unemployed people since Labour came to power in 1997.
This includes more than £100 billion given in housing benefit to people without a job, on top of £36.6 billion in jobseeker’s allowance, £92.5 billion in incapacity benefit, £90.7 billion in income support and £20.3 billion in council tax benefit.
OK so it costs money when people are unemployed, but the real cost is the loss of skilled workers, the lack of a future for the young, the hopelessness of families who cannot see an end to the lack of jobs and lack of money in their pockets, the human suffering and mental illness caused by the Gov’s policies.
And let’s not forget the real reason for the increase, the abysmal fiscal control of the Chancellor, who is now our unelected leader, the greed of the “fat cat” bankers and those who work in the shares and money markets, the lack of “prudence” of the mortgage lenders who loaned billions knowing it would not be repaid.
Yes; 3.3 million households without an adult worker is something we aught to be in uproar over, but don’t blame the workers, most of them had jobs before Brown came along, and don’t listen to the Tories, all they want is to get back into power, remember Thatcher, Major and the others who managed to destroy the economy and now tell us that they are the saviour of the UK, they aren’t.
Welfare is something we should be proud of, it protects the weak and the jobless, the sick and the disabled, let’s not quibble over £350 million, compared to the mess Gord’s gang have got us in it is a drop in the ocean.
Angus
Angus Dei on all and sundry
AnglishLit
Angus Dei-NHS-THE OTHER SIDE
There are now 3.3 million households with no one over the age of 16 in employment, up from 240,000 on last year, with 1.9 million children living in families where neither parent works.
The figures, released by the Office for National Statistics, come as the Tories highlight the cost to the taxpayer of paying benefits for those out of work.
In a speech today, Theresa May, the shadow work and pensions secretary, will reveal that a total of £346 billion has been paid out in benefits to unemployed people since Labour came to power in 1997.
This includes more than £100 billion given in housing benefit to people without a job, on top of £36.6 billion in jobseeker’s allowance, £92.5 billion in incapacity benefit, £90.7 billion in income support and £20.3 billion in council tax benefit.
OK so it costs money when people are unemployed, but the real cost is the loss of skilled workers, the lack of a future for the young, the hopelessness of families who cannot see an end to the lack of jobs and lack of money in their pockets, the human suffering and mental illness caused by the Gov’s policies.
And let’s not forget the real reason for the increase, the abysmal fiscal control of the Chancellor, who is now our unelected leader, the greed of the “fat cat” bankers and those who work in the shares and money markets, the lack of “prudence” of the mortgage lenders who loaned billions knowing it would not be repaid.
Yes; 3.3 million households without an adult worker is something we aught to be in uproar over, but don’t blame the workers, most of them had jobs before Brown came along, and don’t listen to the Tories, all they want is to get back into power, remember Thatcher, Major and the others who managed to destroy the economy and now tell us that they are the saviour of the UK, they aren’t.
Welfare is something we should be proud of, it protects the weak and the jobless, the sick and the disabled, let’s not quibble over £350 million, compared to the mess Gord’s gang have got us in it is a drop in the ocean.
Angus
Angus Dei on all and sundry
AnglishLit
Angus Dei-NHS-THE OTHER SIDE
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