Governments Have Been Peddling Lies On The Number Of PIP Claimants!

here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52660591#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20latest%20figures,uptick%20in%20the%20latest%20figures

Very good explanatory graph in there with a breakdown of the 9.4 million not working

following this argument, I’m not sure why we had a lockdown.
we should all have worked and carry on as completely normal and whoever goes, goes.

Not at all. That would leave the country with fewer working people and a larger percentage out of work. Literally the opposite to that argument!

I'm afraid you're projecting your own ideas onto what I wrote.

It is just basic maths that if there are more people taking money from a capitalist society than providing for it then it cannot be sustained. It really is that simple.

The complex part is deciding how to manage finances for those who can't work for whatever reason. But clearly that needs to be a small percentage compared to those who are in work.

check the national debt of western countries since 2003 till now and you’ll see interesting patterns

check also the conservative austerity measures and how the national debt rose by 2019 just before pandemic.

Where has all the wealth gone?

By what means?

5% announced today….