00:00Well Brexit UK could soon be implementing an EU ban and this all comes because of the state this
00:07country is in in terms of welfare spending absolutely exploding in recent years. You can
00:15see they're costing every household over 12 grand by 2031. We've seen the welfare bill set to surge
00:23by 18 billion quid in one year according to the Centre for Social Justice there and you can see
00:31the equivalent defence spending that would be covered by this huge surge in welfare spending.
00:38You can see just the exploding cost of benefits and also the fact that more than 4 million people
00:46now can claim universal credit with no requirement to even look for work and the forecasts are that
00:54this is going to explode even more out of control around 1,000 new disability benefit claims being
01:01approved every working day largely due to mental health claims. And this has just absolutely
01:10exploded this situation in recent years. You see there the bill for working age sickness and
01:16disability benefits at 58 billion quid now projected to rise to 78 billion quid by 2030. More than 100,000
01:26people now with ADHD as their main condition are receiving these PIP payments. That's a 40%
01:33increase since Labour came into power just two years ago. And then of course you've got this absurd
01:40situation of people who weren't even born here claiming huge amounts of money on benefits at more than
01:4810 billion quid of universal credit in a single year alone going to non-UK citizens. And so it leads
01:57us
01:57to this point now where this proposed EU ban is on the table. Well thank you so much to Outskill
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03:29now.
03:30And that ban comes with Reform UK pledging today to cut welfare spending, cut the welfare system
03:37by £50 billion. Absolutely massive plan here and as part of that you would see people doing mandatory
03:50community work for the long-term unemployed who are able to actually at work. But also the foreign nationals
04:01would not be allowed to claim benefits. So you'd see here EU citizens in the UK would be included in
04:10this ban
04:12and that is because you can see here now more than 1.3 million foreign nationals are now on universal
04:17credit.
04:18That's exploded as well up from 900,000 in 2022, set to go up to 1.5 million by 2029.
04:26And talking about these plans today was Robert Jenrick. Do let me know in the comments below what you make
04:32of this from Jenrick.
04:34Furthermore, one in six universal credit claimants is not even a British or Irish citizen.
04:4355 billion to foreigners in the last four years alone. Just imagine what that money could have done to make
04:53the lives of British people better.
04:56Like lowering their taxes, investing in hospitals and schools, filling the potholes in the roads.
05:03The British taxpayer is acting as the welfare state for the world. That's unfair. We all know it.
05:11There are 6.6 million working age people in the UK claiming out-of-work benefits.
05:18Among their number are many who can work, who should work, but have chosen not to.
05:24And the system's allowed that to persist.
05:28These people are really taking advantage of their fellow citizens, their friends, their neighbours, their community.
05:36And disability and incapacity claims have doubled in less than a decade, with more than 4 million people now claiming.
05:48Britain is not twice as sick as it was just a few years ago.
05:54We all know that.
05:57Even without looking particularly hard, we know that almost 9 billion pounds was also lost to identified fraud and error
06:06last year alone,
06:08because of the sheer incompetence by which the system has been managed.
06:13In towns and cities up and down the country, working people tell stories of those in their communities who are
06:20pulling a fast one,
06:21taking everyone for fools.
06:23The family who enjoy regular holidays, nights out, who have new motability cars on the drive,
06:30but who, out of choice, haven't seen a day's work for years, sometimes decades.
06:37That is fundamentally unfair.
06:41What was a source of pride for British people, a marker that we all live in a civilised society,
06:49has become viewed by many people as a joke.
06:52And in the cold light of day, has to be seen, I believe, as both a moral and an economic
06:59catastrophe.
07:00A broken contract, which too often takes from those who choose to work,
07:05and hands to those who choose not to.
07:09It's also fundamentally unsustainable.
07:12For every pound we spend on defence this year, we will spend eight on welfare.
07:18Eight pounds on welfare.
07:22We also live in a time of unprecedented change for working people.
07:27Everything we thought we knew is being turned upside down.
07:30Good jobs, outsourced overseas.
07:34Disastrous energy policies, de-industrialising huge parts of our country.
07:39And now, AI hollowing out the very middle class and graduate jobs
07:44that people thought would replace the industrial jobs
07:48that were lost in recent decades because of bad policies.
07:53Beveridge wrote in a time when Britain, ravaged by war, felt broken.
07:58Even in victory, it was exalted, but exhausted.
08:05Today, Britain feels broken again and faces huge challenges.
08:11It needs leadership.
08:12It needs reform.
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