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[Northerner]

My biggest problem with all political parties is how they like to further the nanny state!

If an MP stood up and declared free speech and human rights were the most important things on their agenda. I could forgive a tax policy or whatever...

[IainBusby]

Not my maths, a number of independents such as universities have come up with similar figures http://firstrung.co.uk/articles.asp?...155&cat=44-0-0

Incapacity is an excellent benefit, but it has been allowed to abused and get out of hand. It needs to be renamed "I can't be doing any work benefit"

I wasn't disputing your maths with regard to unemployment or incapacity benefit claimants, it's just that you said labour had had 23 years to do something about it, but the've only been in power since 1997, which is only 12 years.

[KeithD]

I wasn't disputing your maths with regard to unemployment or incapacity benefit claimants, it's just that you said labour had had 23 years to do something about it, but the've only been in power since 1997, which is only 12 years.

That's not my maths, if I was that bad the bookies would be going on holiday with my money instead of the other way round .....I ended up changing the batteries in my keyboard yesterday as I eventually noticed it wasn't writing what I typed and had to go back and edit a number of posts. Bloody technology...give me an old typewriter and a pigeon