Ironically The Taliban Could Help Those on Benefits In The UK

OPINION - The Taliban wasted no time in overrunning Afghanistan as soon as the Americans announced they were packing up and leaving. Having put up virtually no resistance we are now being told that 20,000 Afghans could be heading for the UK, all who need clothing, feeding, and rehousing. Competing for resources that we are struggling to provide for our people. That is if you believe the governments' justification for making more welfare cuts and that it is not just a ploy to free up more money to give to the undeserving rich in the form of more tax cuts.  

How can Prime Minister Boris Johnson justify cutting benefits to taxpayers on the dole, whose work and effort mean they paid into the system sometimes for decades and who rightfully deserve to be paid adequate benefits? These are the people who worked to support others and who are now facing potential destitution, starvation, and misery due to these threatened Universal Credit cuts [the cancellation of the £20 uplift].  The real reason for the uplift was we suspect to pump money into a global economy that was on the verge of a major collapse and therefore deflation, where prices would fall and purchases would be postponed. This would explain why in the USA those in work but furloughed were paid more in welfare than they would have earned.

43% of those on Universal Credit in the UK are in work and even those fully unemployed still pay taxes such as VAT and Council Tax. 

Although UK citizens have empathy with those fleeing their country of origin [of course we do] however how long will that empathy last when these refugees start taking priority to get housing and claim benefits? If they had fought bravely and heroically to repel the Taliban and lost, one might have more sympathy. The Afghans had excellent equipment, far better than the Taliban - their military was well trained and well paid. What they didn’t have was the stomach or willingness to fight back.  Whose fault is that. 

Why should UK benefits claimants accept that the benefits they paid for should be cut when those who have paid nothing into the system will need to be fed, clothed, and rehoused by the British taxpayer?

There is a potential solution, Afghanistan’s financial reserves have been frozen by the US. That funding could be legitimately accessed and used to pay for benefits and support for those driven out of their country.  

Let’s take these reserves and give ‘Terry Taliban and the Mullahs’ an invoice for looking after their citizens and for all the military kit lost also paid for by the British and American taxpayer. President Biden was right, it was time to leave, but the execution and the withdrawal was badly managed. If Boris cuts social security benefits but finances all these refugees that could cause great ill feeling and foster anti-foreigner sentiment.  

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