I was listening to a discussion about the UK benefits system on LBC Radio today. I was driving along the A13 towards my office and the conversation caught my attention as it concerned me. I actually phoned the radio station to voice my opinion – unfortunately I was told to pull up and then talk to them – someting I could not do at the moment.

Anyway, to cut the story short, the subject was benefit fraud and milking the system. Nothing new, hey :) Everybody was moaning about paying tax and someone else doing nothing and getting a portion of this money. It doesn’t sound fair at all.

I heard lots of different proposals but neither of them would effectively resole the problem. Imagine you offer a hungry man lots of free food on a plate. What do you think he would do – grab it immediately, of course. The problem lies within the system itself. And the solution is easy – stop the benefits. Allow people to claim job seeker’s allowance for up to 1 year – those who have lost their job and for those who have reach the legal working age and are looking for a job. After that year – thank you very much – you are on your own. Simple as that. 

The result: everybody will start searching for jobs. If one knows he has a year to find a job and then the free lunch stops, he will have to accept a not-that-prestigious (mostly physical) job in the service, construction, retail etc. industries.

At the moment everybody moans that foreigners are stealing the jobs from the British, I hear and read this everywhere. Well, there are plenty of jobs everywhere but not everybody is prepared to start working in McDonalds or Anyclean (:-) you have the details on my blog here!). Nuff said!

Rispek!