A speaker proposes cutting benefit payments to immigrants, slashing welfare programs like Motability, shrinking the state, and ending foreign aid to fix the UK's cost of living crisis. The argument is blunt: these are wasteful spending that drains public funds.
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Everything's so fucking expensive. What can we do to sort the economy out? If you're spending money on completely needless things, a couple of big aspects of that will be getting rid of any benefit payments for illegal immigrants, but also I would argue newly arrived legal immigrants. It's an astronomical amount of money that we are just giving in welfare. Shaving things back on the welfare state like motability vehicles, people who've got tennis elbow or whatever it is. All of that stuff can go. Reducing then also just the size of the British state, take a huge amount of money off the bill there. I would stop giving pointless amounts of money abroad. Foreign aid only works if you You accept the view that if we give them this money, they'll make their own country better and then they'll stay there, which is not happening.