Sam Ashworth-Hayes
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Leader writer and business columnist @Telegraph. Opinions my own and should be yours too.
*Fixed White working age households draw 8% of their income from state support, Indian 4%, Chinese 2%. Pakistani 18%, Bangladeshi 17%, and Black 13%.
Both high and low reliance groups have arrived through migration policies that were supposed to make the public finances more sustainable; a clear majority of working age households in the Indian, Chinese, Bangladeshi, and Black groups are headed by someone born overseas.
You'd need to account for the historical aberration of post-war collectivism which is now pretty integrated into huge chunks of the national psyche.
It's so weird because if you look at our history, those aren't particularly our values. Wouldn't it go more like 1. mercantilism 2. nation over tribe, individual over nation 3. eccentricity as innovation 4. fairness (allocated according to point 2) 5. football?
As with the rest of Britain, this experience might well be why they're now less welcoming.
This is compounded by the point that when Britain sets up a welfare system and pays taxes to look after its own, MPs decide it's their duty to bring the world's poorest here to be subsidised by us. We end up with redistribution from the native population to immigrants and their…
The pension is welfare. It costs £146bn a year and by 2073 it'll take up 8% of GDP. It isn't affordable.
The pension is welfare. It costs £146bn a year and by 2073 it'll take up 8% of GDP. It isn't affordable.
It would be wrong to scrap the pensions triple lock to cover the cost of spiralling welfare. Pensioners on fixed incomes shouldn’t pay the price for a broken system.
"Zone 1-4 colonisers" paid for that council housing and those free school meals.
It would be wrong to scrap the pensions triple lock to cover the cost of spiralling welfare. Pensioners on fixed incomes shouldn’t pay the price for a broken system.
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