General election ???

Those of us who have paid in to the system all our lives Tax and NI either weekly or monthly would sooner be living a normal life without our ill health or disability’s. So as a poster said I am claiming what I am due? How much have you paid in over your working life? Think about it your income tax and your NI contribution total it up so much is towards your pension and the NHS and benefits claimants. Have you been in hospital had surgery, scans MRI scans at £500 plus a time stays in hospitals £100 a day plus can we put a figure on it, we don’t we have our care and go not knowing the actual cost if we where sent a bill for the treatment we have received and asked to pay 10% would that be to much to ask or could we afford it even at 1%. There is only so much money in the pot and like you a loyal tax and NI payer since a16 yrs old I used to wonder about all those claiming and never worked or have any intention of working. But as I have got older I realise that there is no work for some people the industry that was there is no longer viable and what work that is about is so low paid qualified people turn their noses up at it because, they didn’t go to university for four years or more to work for £8 per hour. 

Anyone who seriously thinks Comrade Corbyn would wave a magic wand and end UC is either naive or ignorant. It is unfortunately here to stay all anyone can do is tinker with it.  People claim what the law says they are entitled to claim not what they are ''due''  The benefits and pensions system has always existed on the premise that your tax is to support the current budget which includes Benefits, Pensions,NHS et al. No one is building up a pot to draw on later.   Which ever shade of party is elected will by necessity have to keep on the same paths as others have layed down whatever  pinky promises they make today. 

@clarkjohnson Yes I mean they are all the same.I'll give you an example Tony Blair introduced the concept of welfare  to work in 1998 through the New Deal for the unemployed, by the time the coalition took charge they turned that into the work program. Both schemes were money for old rope for the ''providers'' and meant misery for many.
@apollo14lmp I do not doubt that you worked hard, earned a decent living and paid your taxes.  Whichever government we have they are going to make people jump through hoops to get the benefits they can apply for. You can speak of a fairer Britain but the challenges are immense and not least being who will fund it and where will they get the funding from. More than a third of all revenue is spent on welfare payments (264 Billion in 2017 out of 769 Billion). When politicians of whichever spectrum make promises I quite frankly do not believe they will achieve their promises without borrowing or more taxation.

@clarkjohnson I think the young will have to adapt. For example
whereas my  father and his generation could rely on a state pension the youth of today will be made aware  that there will be  no guarantees for them  except poverty if they do not have their own pension schemes in place. The aims and aspirations of a hundred years ago will inevitably collide with the reality of an ever ageing population and how to support it.