Please come to Britain – the world’s welfare state?

Friday blog

Most of us are probably fed up hearing about all the shenanigans around the appointment of Britain’s most honest and popular Lord, the Mandelson thing, as UK ambassador to Washington by Britain’s most honest and most popular prime minister – ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer. So, I won’t mention anything about this in today’s blog. Here’s something rather different.

Britain seems to have become the world’s welfare state – a welfare state with a country attached rather than a country with a welfare system

Approximately 46.7% of UK households pay more in taxes (direct and indirect) than they receive in benefits and public services, according to 2024 Office for National Statistics (ONS) data. Conversely, 53.3% of individuals live in households that are net recipients—receiving more in benefits, such as NHS care and education, than they contribute. 

• Income Concentration: Income tax is heavily concentrated among top earners. The top 10% of taxpayers contribute over 60% of total income tax receipts.
• Top 1% Impact: The top 1% of UK taxpayers contribute around 33% of the total income tax collected

As of early 2026, approximately 9.1 to 9.3 million people aged 16 to 64 in the UK are “economically inactive,” meaning they are not in work and not looking for work. This represents a rate of roughly 21% of the working-age population.

What’s worse is that Labour are deliberately making this situation worse by:

• increasing benefits for the skivers while increasing taxes on the strivers
• blocking any attempts to reduce the rate of increase in the billions paid out in benefits
• importing up to 50,000 pieces of largely uneducated, often unemployable, often rape-obsessed, often criminal pieces of Third-world garbage across the Channel each year by giving them more incentives than any other country to come to Britain – free hotels, free food, free money, free phones, free healthcare, free dentistry, free everything

Estimates for the lifetime cost of an “illegal migrant” to the British taxpayer vary significantly based on the assumptions made about their status (e.g., if they remain undocumented or are later granted amnesty) and their employment status. 

• Undocumented/Processing Phase Costs:
  • The Home Officehas estimated that supporting a single asylum seeker while their claim is processed for four years costs approximately £106,000.
  • Current daily costs for asylum accommodation (largely hotels) have been reported at roughly £6 million per day, or over £4 million per day for housing specifically, leading to an estimated £15.3 billion over the 10 years between 2019 and 2029.
• Long-Term/Lifetime Impact Estimates:
  • Migration Watch UK Estimate: A 2010 report by Migration Watch UK estimated that if an illegal immigrant were granted amnesty (regularized), their net lifetime cost to the state would range from £220,000 for a single working person (though most of them will never work) to over £1 million for an unemployed family with two children.

But I expect most of us know that when you include all the social breakdown, trouble and criminality caused by our Third-world friends, the real costs of these people (parasites?) being in our country is much higher than these figures suggest.

Even the British government recognises that the present situation cannot continue. A government website tells us:

• The UK asylum system is broken. The numbers arriving on small boats in 2022 exceeded 45,700, a 60% increase on the 28,500 who arrived in 2021..
• These journeys are unnecessary, as those making these crossings are coming from safe countries, such as France, where they could have claimed asylum.
• More recently, we have seen large numbers of people making these journeys who are from well-established safe countries, where it is clear they are not at risk of persecution.
• It’s not fair that those coming to the UK with the intention of becoming economic migrants are able to exploit our asylum system, which should be prioritising those whose lives are genuinely at risk.
• It’s also not fair on the British taxpayer. The current broken asylum system currently costs the UK some £3 billion a year and rising, including nearly £6 million a day on hotel accommodation.
• We cannot continue, year on year, with this inexorable rise in the number of illegal arrivals adding unacceptable pressures on our health, housing, educational and welfare services.

But what is the British government doing about this catastrophe? Nothing, nada, zilch, zero. In fact, the British government seems intent on encouraging this Third-world invasion. We’re told race replacement is just a crazed conspiracy theory even though White British will be a minority in their own country by 2050 to 2060.

Of course, honest Sir Keir, that brave and noble knight of the realm, claims he is “smashing the gangs” and “stopping the boats”. But noble Sir Keir has never been known for his honesty.

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