Welfare Reform

We have had national welfare in this country for about 450 years.  For 400 of those years, the whole country thought the purpose of welfare was for people of working age, when they could not find jobs, to provide jobs for them.  It is only in the last 50 years or so that the idea that you should give people without work doles has gripped the public imagination, with all the consequences which we now see.  The campaign for welfare reform is about giving people the opportunities to easily of moving back into work - offering jobs is the only test of whether people are genuinely seeking work, and further, when we have finished our working lives one needs a pension scheme that guarantees a minimum income of means-tested assistance.  Here you will get details of the campaigns both making welfare pro-active in moving people back into work and also of ensuring we take command of a portion of our national income to guarantee every one of us a decent pension in retirement.