Nigel Farage has said Reform would make ‘serious cuts’ to the UK’s welfare budget

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1. The 65+ voter base will love that.

2. Good stuff, its wild that a G7 country pays top-up work benefits to a full-time employee. Work should pay and benefits should be enough to not starve, not be a lifestyle choice

3. Anyone thinking we don’t need to either cut the welfare bill or increase the tax rates for lower earners are kidding themselves, the country is reliant on a small fraction of taxpayers in a time when it’s easy to move abroad.

   I don’t care that it’s unpopular, it’s not feasible or viable to carry on funding the ballooning bill.

   Does that mean Reform will necessarily implement it fairly? No. Nor do I think disabled people should be forced into work. But Starmer attempted to cut welfare for this very reason, we are going to bankrupt ourselves unless we accept that it just isn’t affordable or positive for the country.

   If you’re capable of working, you should be working and not living off the state. If you can’t, then there should be an adequate safety net to afford you a good quality of life. But we are in a situation where neither is true.

4. Won’t be able to buy red spray paint for roundabouts r/compoface

5. Calculations made on the back of a fag packet

6. The lefties will actually have to get jobs. No more mooching off of the rest if us.

7. Most of his voters are on benefits

8. Bad news for the triple lock blue rinse brigade

9. I fear they’ll do it abruptly and people will not be able to cope.
   What they need to do is help people!!!

10. Lol not sure that will get the response he’s hoping for.

11. Hasn’t everyone just kicked off when Labour tried to do this?

12. No worries. Many of Farage’s supporters would happily eat cold beans in the dark if it meant making life slightly worse for someone with an accent.

13. You know crime will just rise with this.

14. He needs serious curd to his blood money wage, and his citizenship.

15. But most of their voters are on welfare!

16. Yes. They will abolish the state pension.

    Along with the NHS.

17. He must either be talking about PIP or pension. UC is already too low to live on.

18. These fng politicians don’t have to say anything true. They can say everyone will get a billion pound and they’ll gun everyone who’s on board..
    Nobody ever holds them to account after they’ve lied and fucked the country up and hit what they actually want.
    Stop giving them the freedom to speak

19. Mrs Jones relies on adult social services, but Mrs Jones doesn’t pay her share. “_Why should I am entitled and that money is for my grandchildrens inheritance._” Do we cut off Mrs. Jones services? No, we don’t. That would be diabolical. Do you want to pay a bit more tax to cover the Mrs Jones’s? No? Shall we cut her off? Also no. Who pays then?

20. His voters will suffer.

21. Honestly, at this point – let these people vote for the rod for their own backs.

22. More milkshake

23. Trump fan doing Trump things

24. They will cut paid annual leave and sick leave 100%

    He still hasn’t delivered on what a success Brexit will be. Why would anyone trust him still it’s been 10 years since that shit show.

25. Hah, and my sister who’s chronically ill and on multiple benefits will still vote for this clown, I bet.

26. Come on then, what spending specifically?

27. He wants to cut welfare and NHS budgets to make them ineffective. Then he’ll make the case that the NHS needs to be privitised to improve it, and it can be sold to American health care corporations.

28. 100% that pensioners won’t take a hit and any tax cuts will be meaningless to ordinary workers.

29. I think he ought to be careful with these statements.

    It was ok to say populist shit when he had no hope of being elected, but now he does.

30. Well someone needs to

31. Pick on the vulnerable and most marginalized in society whilst lifting the lid on London financial rules and making his chums even more wealthy. He’s a real nasty piece of shit

32. Ah among his supporter base. Pretty sure none of then have the common sense to work that out.

33. Great idea, make the people struggling struggle more! That way they are forced to protest, causing yet more unrest in the city as tensions increase with foreign military powers! Disrupt and divide! (/s)

34. In 5 years we’re going to have an American system where we have to pay thousands to get basic healthcare

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