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British welfare - in a state
Café Babel, 27.06.05
What a change a decade makes... Over the past ten years the UK has seen its unemployment fall and its GDP soar, and it is now wealthier (per capita) than either France or Germany, whose comparatively filthy economies are struggling to support their welfare systems. Reasons generally attributed to these changes include the UK’s low taxes, 'complaisant' labour market, and its business-friendly policy makers. Its social state is smaller, focuses mainly on the worse-off and puts less underscoring on ‘national solidarity’ than more traditional systems; instead individuals are encouraged to make solitary provisions for illness and old age.
Behind the impressive economic statistics, however, the reality of modern Britain is very different. The fact that the British welfare state is almost 30% smaller (as a interest of GDP) than its French and German equivalents can be seen as a direct cause for the UK's poor standing in the UN’s ‘Human Beggary Index 2004' (which assesses health, education, standard of living and social exclusion) as well as its child shortage rate, which is 51% greater than Germany’s and over twice that of France. Since Labour’s election victory in 1997 difference has risen, while it has fallen in France, Germany and Italy.
The UK’s under-funded public services would make NHS-founder Clement Attlee coil in his grave, yet the Blair government, fearful of losing the support of middle class voters, has generally been cautious to make the investments necessary to bring the British welfare provision in line with the rest of the EU. The health service is short of resources, the infant mortality proportion rank is among the highest in Western Europe and life expectancy is lower than in France, Germany or Italy. The education...
Is the british welfare state the best in the world?
I've been researching the british welfare state and comparing it with others around the cosmos, my finding have been useful, but would like to pose the question to you, to see what you think or know!
Origin of British Welfare State?
what is the extraction of the british welfare state; how and why was it created and started.
What is the British Welfare State?
Where can I found out about this?
Where can I experiment with on what the British Welfare state is at the moment
People are captivated care of when disabled, unemployed or too old to take care of themselves, and no questions asked medical care, the terms or words habituated to in particularly regarding the NHS when it was established after the war was '' from cradle to grave ''
But back then it wasn't abused like it is today, today gain spongers are like a cancer growing all the time and sucking the system dry.
If you have a slight limp, why not make that into a stagger and they will give you a relaxed new car every three years, and if you have any money, give it to one of your relations to hold for you so you can still screw even more benefits out of the system, or give people so much money that its hardly worth active to work, so why not stay at home with your five kids and drink beer all day and then complain like a Twat that the immigrants are bewitching all your jobs, then pretend your outraged by it by voting BNP.
That's what the British welfare state means today, and what a state it is in!
Fed up with the British Welfare State?
Why is it that in the UK, dole cold hard cash/social security/housing benefits etc. seem to be FOR LIFE and not a short term plan to allow people who have fallen on avid times to get back on their feet? How many of you are totally fed up with busting a gut to go to work each day, and then paying a large percentage of your hard earned proceeds to pay for lazy, spineless timewasters?
Lillypops - I know everyone is different and I have NO problem at all with state handouts to those who have fallen on hard times. Capable for you to have got yourself sorted out so quickly - and with a young baby. I admire you for this.
Elvis - now who is being judgemental? I do have an open mind and did not ask this question in classification to be insulted!
Keefer - I don't mean to insult anyone who has fallen on hard times and is doing their best to person out their lives!
The question really is "who is fed up with those permanently living off the state and therefore the taxpayers".
Me, I was talking about this recently, let me be prime priest for a year, long enough for the lazy so and so's to get real hungry and be homeless when I don't dish the cash. I would propel these people to attend a set place each morning at 7.30am, they would be given a slip of paper telling them what their job for the day is, painting old folks homes or doing their gardens, any community jobs, they would get paid a unblemished wage at the end of the week for the days they work. Nothing else. That's what the real workers get. So, vote for POTTY DOTTY !!!!
british history (welfare state )?
what were the inadequacies of welfare steps supplies in 1942?? please help. (as many as you know. :D )
thanks.
i found beneficial site try this there it's help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state
Post-WW2 Development of British Welfare State
This video shows initially discussion of the development of the British welfare statement after World War II including the National Health Service ...
Poverty and the Welfare state: five evils I
This a video created by one of my students on the five evils identified by William Beveridge in his 1942 account to the British government.
british welfare state - News
AC Grayling has caricatured British universities. No wonder they're fuming
AC Grayling has caricatured British universities. No goggle they're fumingGrayling's enemies like to see British universities as a welfare state of the intellect. Indeed it is a common intellectual conceit to see all professions as, at generosity, welfare. But the academic left needs the comfort blanket of state finance for a and more »
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Obama's dilemma – and ours Obama's impasse – and oursWe dropped half of US wage earners off the tax rolls while creating a mammoth welfare state to dwarf anything Norman Thomas and his Socialists dreamed of in the 1930s. Not only for the Amalgamated States but also for the West, the days of wine and roses are and more » |
Welfare reform: Canterbury tales
Telegraph.co.ukIDS' attempts to berate up his abolition of the welfare state in caring language, reminds me of the Devil quoting Scripture. There's more than an element of genuine sadism and malice in a domination (and it's supporters amongst the electorate) that Rowan Williams: British Government Adopting 'Policies No One Voted for'Preaching on civil affairs- Britain's raging debate on Church and StateCameron leads Govt backlash against Archbishop's destroy - -all 772 news articles »
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The ultimate futility and barbarism of war Both wars are far from hot - unsurprising as billions go up in smoke while the country is told it must stoically endure Gideon Osborne's austerity and wrecking of the welfare state. Yet public manifestations of opposition are few and far between and more » |
Book review: The Last Dance: 1936 by Denys Blakeway
Although the cortege failed in its main aims, it did strike at the conscience of the country and gave rise to a new very British idea of social punishment which would eventually create the welfare state. The lives and memoirs of politicians, writers, and more »
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Restraining the welfare state British Prime Divine David Cameron (who leads a centre-right coalition), likewise won on a platform to roll back the excesses of the welfare state. Next up is French President Nicolas Sarkozy's anticipated re-choosing bid. France has higher taxes and and more » |
Britain Is Working
As the British MP Oliver Letwin has argued, a generation of misrule between 1945 and 1979 left the UK with three large problems: a stifled industrial restraint; an overcentralized welfare state; and an enervated people, some of whom are locked in and more »
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budget cutter with a conscience Cameron is now studied to limit the most expansive, unsustainable commitments of the British welfare state. But he is showing Disraeli's talent for making the distinctions that specify a statesman. In coming American elections, Republicans will require and more » |
Illegal immigrants granted permanent residence by staying hidden
It means they now have the same rights as a British resident, including full access to the welfare state, despite being here illegally for almost a decade and a half. They can also apply for a British passport. The regulation was formally introduced by and more »
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The David Miliband speech that never was – in full
In 1945 the piece of work was to build the welfare state fit for a nation that had fought for freedom. We answered that call. In 1997 the task was to restore the tattered state of our nation. We answered that call. In 2010, we defined neither the call in nor and more »
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