It’s a stark attribute of post-war theory that UK citizens should receive welfare payments. It fits a model that sympathises with a war-torn nation that needs to recover.
It also follows along the lines of failure of industry and a sluggishness to innovate new ones. The compensation of benefits such as Universal Credit fit our narrative.
However, the time has come to get over our remorse at large, and feel sorrow at lost time and manpower. The nation has to move on and find new ways to fund itself.
The purpose of our lives here is at stake, and yet businesses have chosen to recruit overseas workers to fill gaps. These are roles citizens should do, but inequality widens.
The reason is not a lacklustre attitude to work, but a failure of government to cover ground. It’s moved up, but not out. It hasn’t grasped its remit as well as it thinks.
