“There is no such thing as society” – almost 40 years after Mrs. Thatcher’s famous speech are finally true in utility surgery in Britain?
It has been almost 40 years since Maggie Thatcher declared the end of society.
“There is no such thing. There are individual men and women, and there are families, and no government can do anything other than people and people look at themselves first. It is our duty to take care of ourselves and then to take care of our neighbor and life and life is a reciprocal business.
‘I think that one of the tragedies where many of the benefits we give to calm people that if they were sick or sick, the safety net was and there was help, but somehow some people who have manipulated the system. When people come and say “but what makes sense to work? I can get so much dole ‘
His words have come to mind again in recent months, and much of Westminster’s concentration in cutting welfare fees. Throughout the United Kingdom, one in ten people has illness or inability, up to 3,000 people go sick every day. The costs of these fees are £ 65 billion per year. Almost 10 million people of working age are not looking for a job, and Sir Keir Starmer has described this as “unsustainable, unfounded and unfair”
The Westminster government says that the case of prosperity is moral.
Is that? And when the benefits are struggling to survive what they have, it drives people farther away- killing any concept of society?
Rapporteur Audrey Carville in the discussion with Dr. Ciara Fitzpatrick lecturer at Ulster University in the study of the social security system and socio -economic rights, Anne Mcelvoy is Editor -in -Chief of Politico and Alex Kane and Alex Kane is a columnist and writer