Are we really a free nation

[NorthernRaider]

Hah !!! Ferkin Labour think Orwells 1984 is a " How to" run a country book.

I would scrap all welfare payments except pensions for the elderly (providing they actually did work for a living) and the disabled, the rest I would scrap, that way I could could cut income tax and NI combined to less than 10% and drop VAT to 5% that and slashing fuel duty would free up billions back into the hands of the workers which would instantly revitalise the ecomnomy and create bolat loads of work.

When a person goes out to work be it a cleaner or neuro surgeon their pay should be in their pay packets and not redirected to benefit claimants.