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Originally Posted by JoshBB

As conservative budgets in the last 5 years have gone, this one does not strike me as bad as the others. I'm glad that they are funding areas that need it (mental health & houses, even if they still need more it's a start). It's just the £12bn welfare cuts I really don't like.

Do you know what annoys me as to the welfare debate, the fact that the State Pension is included as social security welfare spending.

It takes up more than half of the welfare figure yet it is not a benefit really, it is a right,vastly rich people get it too as a right.
It is shocking to use the State Pension in statistics to mislead as to the 'real' welfare spending figure.

People paid into the tax/N.I. pot for that State pension, it is time it was separated from the welfare figures.
It really makes me angry that no govt of any party has done so either.