Abingdonboy
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Yep, it's true they need to get off their high horse. There are jobs, they just consider themselves above them, cleaners etc.
Well cutting benefits will hopefully force people out into work.
Yes, we will grow increasingly insignificant. But we will still be growing.
As the asian countries with large populations catch up, it's natural that we'd slip down the order. That doesn't mean the quality of life should be bad though.
Cutting benefits is not nessercarily the right way to go. The French benifts system actually pays a lot more to those on them but there are stringent rules any claimant must abide by of be cut off- they have to prove they are spending atleast 5 hours a week looking for and applying for jobs, they have to take part in mandatory volunteer work tht is highly public it litter picking and cleaning up graffiti, they also must not exceed a certain limit of children if they want to continue receiving child benefit whilst on incapacity benefits. Also child benefits for children under 5 are paid out 40% in food stamps tht can only be used to buy baby food so that the crappy parents don't spend it on booze of FIFA. The French also have the best national (free) healthcare system in the world that has. Fraction of the waste and inefficient of the NHS- we can learn a lot from them.
And of course the quality of life doesn't have to be bad but a mindset change needs to happen, we need to stop thinking of ourselves as global players and need to focus on our immediate neghborhood only. No more aircraft carriers, no more exceptionally fighting units just a small, lean defence force. We can follow the model of some Scandinavian countries which, by all measures, are some of the happiest places to live on Earth!