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OPINION: We cannot just blame this Government for the current situation - the rot set in under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, writes GB News broadcaster Adam Brooks
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This country is in an absolute mess, and even hardened Labour supporters are voicing their concern about just how bad Keir Starmer's first nine months have been.
A party that once boasted about being the party of working people, couldn't even define what a working person was just a few months ago and to many, they now look like the party just for the migrants and the unions - two groups that have actually got better off since September.
Meanwhile, pensioners, farmers and businesses got hit in the pocket. There is no hope for growth, none at all, so economic decline is about to hit.
Come April, things are about to get a lot worse, with big corporations laying off workers to try and make up for the NIC hit, the minimum wage going up and rates relief being stripped back by Rachel Reeves.
We cannot just blame this Government for the current situation. The Tories have helped hit our highstreets and have sat on a tenure of an increasing benefits bill too, but this all really started with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
From 1997 to 2010 we experienced a huge influx of migrants from Eastern Europe; Lord Mandelson has even boasted that they sent search parties out to bring people in.
There was also a huge increase in spending benefits and tax credits, and not working became a lifestyle choice in the 2000s, instead of what it is meant for the disabled and the truly needy in society, relative poverty did actually fall during these years, but that was mainly due to such generous benefits being handed out.
There was an 18billion increase in the benefits bill for those with children. With spending on welfare increasing by a whopping 40 per cent, it was theoretically possible for a family to claim over £100,000 a year for help with housing costs, child benefits and other schemes.
It created a cage-like effect with the unemployed not wanting to risk their housing benefit being tapered away if they got a job.
Benefits became a way of life under Labour, something that goes against the hardworking history of our past generations.
A benefit trap had evolved, where the truly hard-up got help, but so did so many that could easily have worked their way out of trouble.
Benefits should be a temporary leg up, not a lifestyle choice, but Blair and Brown changed that, back then, we often had media headlines of families with 10,11 or 12 kids getting huge amounts from the state.
