What a Load of EU Sewage
Eurosceptics are fond of saying that the EU is flushing our money down the toilet. But in this case from Greece, it is literally true, except they forget to put the connecting pipes in so, in truth, it's not even going down the toilet. Get Britain out of this mess, asap
- 13 November 2015
Britain and Europe's Welfare Jihad
Welcome to Britain and Europe's Welfare Jihad. It's one thing to commit economic suicide by allowing people to loaf around on state benefits. It's quite another to pay them to start blowing up modern society. Civilisational suicide, anyone?
- 2 June 2015
Swedish welfare system under spotlight as armless man denied disability parking permit
Sweden's bizarre bureaucratic system is under the spotlight after an armless man was denied a disability parking permit on account of the fact that he still has legs, and can therefore walk
- 23 May 2015
The joy of welfare funded holidays in the sun
Britain's welfare system never ceases to amaze. The story of a single mother and her 10 month old daughter taking a round-the-world trip on benefit payments is frankly jaw-dropping
- 25 February 2015
Voting for dependency, and poverty
The Left just does not understand (or doesn't care) that the greatest risk is that people get trapped in dependency. We see that in advanced nations like the US and UK, and the Third World too
- 14 October 2014
UK dealing with welfare, and employment is growing
When you add together the panoply of redistribution programs operated by government, it’s easy to see why far too many people are being trapped in government dependency. When you untrap them, you get jobs, as Britain shows
- 25 July 2014
Archbishop of welfare dependency
What is so frustrating about clergy jumping on populist bandwagons is it gets a lot of airtime for a complete misrepresentation of what the government is trying to do to help people live better lives
- 19 February 2014
Welfare multiplied by demographics equals doom
Any type of pay-as-you-go welfare state becomes increasingly expensive when there are more and more old people and fewer and fewer young workers. See the killer graph showing why some nations are doomed
- 10 February 2014
Whatever happened to that "Anglo-Saxon" model?
Mainly, your preconceptions about welfare basket case countries will be right. Yes. The proportion of GDP spent on welfare in France is phenomenal. But the trend in that direction in the US and Britain will knock you off your chair too
- 18 January 2014
How welfare redistributes income from Blacks to Whites
Remarkable study from Left-leaning institute says welfare redistributes from Hispanics, blacks, and other people of colour to whites. This will put the cat among the Left's ideological pigeons
- 4 January 2014
Why Europe will be outpaced by Asia and America
Forecasts reveal growing irrelevance of Europe to the progress of the world economy. China’s population will grow to be more than twice that of Europe’s and India’s will be more than 2.4 times. Europe will make its position worse by continuing with high energy prices, relatively high taxes, and an excess of poor regulation
- 27 December 2013
Welfare state as the Ghost of Christmas Past
Scrooge would have loved putting people on welfare. Chain them to a life of state dependency and then rich socialists can just forget about them and turn charity into a dirty word
- 20 December 2013
Euro not to blame for crisis, but made it much worse
No-one but a fool thinks the euro is the only cause of Europe's economic crisis. There's also the anti-business madness of Brussels and the member states to consider too. Abolish social democracy, abolish the EU and abolish the euro all at once
- 18 December 2013
Even Scandinavian welfare states realise too many handouts are destructive
Even Scandinavian nations are realising that there has to be a limit to incentive-killing and taxpayer-sapping redistribution
- 3 September 2013
How the welfare state hurts the poor
The welfare state hurts the poor even more than it hurts taxpayers. For the Left, on the other hand, it's a bonanza
- 4 July 2013
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