I just watched
@BBCPolitics #QuestionTime on iplayer
I couldn't face it just before bedtime:
Knowing
@Helen_Whately was on the
#BBC AGAIN
What I didn't hear was
#FionaBruce pointing out that a
Ballooning
#WelfareBill is
an urban myth.
&
So is
#PIP_Fraud
PIP fraud is 1.4% & has been between 0.1% and 1.6% since 2016
So why don't interviewers ever point that out or challenge the narrative of these MPs?
Why do we need to bring down Welfare Spending
@BBCPolitics when
the
Welfare Budget has been 11% of GDP for decades and is projected to to be around 11% of GDP till 2030
👀 At the figures
WELFARE SPEND IS NOT BALLOONING
Working Age Incapacity benfits due to be stable at 1% GDP till 2030
Total Welfare spend
Stable at 11% GDP
(& projected to stay at 11% till 2030)
Working Age
Economic Inactivity
Stable at 10M
& Has been for 30 years
1995-2024
& ⬇️ in last decade
2011 23.6%
2024 21.2%
Working Age (WA)
Economic Inactivity
as a percentage of Working Age people Down
⬇️in last decade
2011 23.6%
2024 21.2%
2025 20.8%
Don't you think you've worried enough disabled and retired people and people with terminal diseases and long term conditions enough?
PIP fraud
#PIP fraud was low but rising
2016/17 1.4%
2017/18 1.5%
2018/19 1.6%
Now with more online assessments lower
2024 0.0%
2025 0.4%
2026 1.4%
1.8M of 3.7M on
#PIP are not new claims but adults over 16
migrated from DLA
The whole welfare or warfare debate has to ✋ stop
You are lying to the country about welfare ballooning
1.8M of the people on
#PIP were migrated there from DLA when PIP was established in 2014:
Not New Claims
The dramatic UC increase
is 80% migration from legacy benefits too: not new claims!
The whole NEETS narrative breaks down when you look at the figures...
Just as the constant narrative of ballooning benefits in general is bogus so is this..
NEETS 16-17yr
2017 6%
2024 5.4%
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My food tube was a bit fishy. bleh. happy that Xtal is better