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!