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You really think a Tory government would say "Right, we've saved £2 billion in fraudulent welfare claims, we are now going to increase spending on genuine welfare claimants", as opposed to "Right, we've saved £2 billion in fraudulent welfare claims, we are now going to give away another £2...

Back in the 1930s, the economist John Maynard Keynes was arguing that the best way to revive a stagnant economy was to increase government spending through public and private investment in infrastructure (transport, housing, schools, hospitals, etc), which would then create jobs and higher wages...

One other point which is overlooked when 'crack-downs' on welfare are regularly announced, and give Daily Mail readers multiple-orgasms, is that cutting payments to claimants obviously means they have to reduce their weekly spending - which then means that local shops and other retailers will...

£18 billion a year in Housing Benefit into the pockets of profiteering landlords. £ 35 billion (approximately) is lost each year through tax evasion - https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7948/ 38% of Universal Credit claimants are in-work, but their employers pay them...

Such a typical Tory response in so many ways: a) Another initiative to demonise the unemployed. b) Another way of denigrating a group of public sector professionals and experts. c) Ignore the underlying causes of an alleged problem - why do so many people in Britain today suffer from stress...

Those same doctors, presumably, who face being struck-off if they are arrested on a Climate Change protest. Our wonderful free-speech loving, anti-Cancel Culture, Tory government.