Your Tax Money: £500million Wasted On Farm Cash Cow

“‘Masterclass in bungling’ costs taxpayers £500m.” So says the Times. And we read:

Almost £500 million of taxpayers’ money will be spent on covering the costs of the bungled implementation of a new payment system to English farmers, a parliamentary inquiry reports today.

The report is by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which ensures that public spending is value for money. It makes for bad reading for taxpayers.

The Single Farm Payment Scheme was introduced two years ago. It was intended to reward farmers for looking after the land rather than the quantity of livestock they reared for meat.

Continue reading >>

Is The Murder Of Rhys Jones Symptomatic Of Class War And A Benign Benefits System

Rhys Jones is shot dead. He is aged 11. His murder is sickening.

Simon Heffer writes in the Telegraph:

Has anybody noticed that the more we spend on the underclass, the bigger it gets and the worse it behaves?

And:

Has anyone noticed, either, that what we used to call the working class has shrunk? Not merely because, as surveys tell us, so many now think of themselves as "middle-class", but because something called the respectable working class has almost died out. What sociologists used to call the working class does not now usually work at all, but is sustained by the welfare state. Its supposed family units are not as the rest of us might define the term. It lapses routinely into criminality and lives in largely self-inflicited squalor. It has low educational attainment and is bereft of ambition. It is what we now call the underclass.

Is he right?

via [Telegraph]

The Shameless Six Million

Here's a story for Daily Mail readers to get their teeth into – six million Britons are reported to be living in households where nobody works.

The figures, which come from the National Audit Office, also reveal that these apparently workshy households are costing the great British taxpayer almost £13billion a year in benefits.

Continue reading >>