Kemi Badenoch as Tory Party leader ?

Not at all.

Corporate Welfare costs more per than Out-Of-Work Benefits and Housing Benefit COMBINED.

The ONLY way to pretend that Social Welfare costs more than Corporate Welfare is to pretend that "Pensions" are a "benefit" that is otherwise unfunded.


I take it the change of tack by you means the two huge fucking clues I gave you were not enough for to apply joined-up-thinking.
Colour me surprised - NOT.

Let me explain, in baby steps for you.

Women having babies in "This Generation" are providing both Workers and Consumers of the "Next Generation"; without either of which Capitalism FAILS.
When the cost of providing the Consumers and Workers of the Next Generation becomes too high the Birth-Rate drops.
Too few Workers and Wage-Bargaining can get out of hand, lowering Profit Margins.
Too few Consumers and Sales Units drop, lowering Profit Margins.

Governments enamoured, or under the heel, of Capitalism then have to make a choice on how to increase the availability of both Workers and Consumers.
There are two ways of doing this: 1) Subsidise the production of Workers and Consumers in some way (Maternity Benefit, Child Benefit etc), or 2) Import them.

For much of the time since the last war option 1 was more or less enough, with limited Immigration really only filling niche skills shortages.

However, one of the side-effects of Neo-Liberal Capitalism especially Late Stage Capitalism (marked by ever increasing wealth inequality and the erosion / eradication of the "Middle Class") is that too much money is concentrated in too few pockets.  Meaning to make it cost effective for the "native population" to take times out to produce the Next Generation of Workers and Consumers requires more taxation of those in the top two quintiles of the economic ladder and Capitalism, and the political parties most wedded to it, are ideologically opposed to that.

The upshot of that is the import of Workers and Consumers becomes increasingly necessary to maintain Private Sector Profit Margins.


Don't get me wrong, I am no communist; heck in most policy areas I don't even make it to "left of centre".
But I am neither naïve, stupid, nor dishonest enough to simply overlook the inherent flaws in the current Capitalist model.

Ne-Liberal Capitalism wants less regulation, and that is why the Capitalist Model is breaking down.
It is no longer the case that knuckling-down and working hard is enough to pay your way through life with a few luxuries here and there; and more and more people are not only realising this, but living it every day.

Unless some effort is put into regulating Capitalism in a smarter manner, so that it benefits more, not just a tiny few then not only will Western economies continue to falter from one crisis to another, but the underpinning political structure of Capitalism - Democracy - will be seen to be failing as well.

We have seen this play out already in Russia, where Crony-Capitalism serving the needs of a small minority of Oligarchs came under pressure and required Putin to stamp down on both Democracy and Protest.
That is coming to the West unless something changes pretty soon.


All The Best