The TUC has said that the retirement age could remain at 65 if 80% of working aged people worked. As 80% of people in Southern England are already in paid work compared to a 71% national average, it falls on the rest of the country to get paid work.
The best motivation would be to reduce incapacity benefit and make work pay. Does the TUC agree or should Southern England continue to subsidise the work shy into their 70s?
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I'm with you on that Snafu - time to take the axe to the Welfare dependency culture that the Unions so adore...
I'm often amazed when visiting the North East (where I'm originally from) how many people just simply choose not to work. If you talk to them its not so much hopelessness and resignation as simple economics - benefits and a little black market dealing pays better than a job; especially after the taxman has made off with 30% of your pay.
Combined with free housing and other 'freebies' how much incentive is their for a working class person to actually work? But given that the majority of Labours seats are in these same areas you just know they don't have the balls to actually do anything about it.
This is just a lose-lose situation. The wealth producing parts of England are taxed to oblivion and the previously proud people of the North and Midlands are turned into effectivly passive clients of the welfare state.
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