It needs something doing about welfare, however will these fats who will run it they are certain to get fatter.

Geoffrey Fish, Pontefract, UK

Well, nothing could be more inefficient that having the Civil Service run it....

Peter, London,

The whole system of benefits & welfare is out of control. People are rewarded for being deceitful or irresponsible. When the 2nd world war finished the welfare state was needed, to get people back on their feet, but now that era has past. Just about three-quarters of everyone in this country is in receipt of some sort of benefits or another. Look at the NHS, indigenous residents & foreigners take advantage of its services, regardless that they have paid nothing towards it, then when the tax paying public need to use the NHS they’re told of waiting lists & no funding left. Then theres housing benefit, child benefits, the list goes on & on. The best thing is to scrap the welfare state & pay as you go. The services wouldn’t be at bursting point then, as people would only use them if they really needed them as they would have to pay. This country may not then be so attractive to all the wasters as well as the foreigners coming here to take advantage of our lax benefits & welfare systems

michael pickles, bournemouth, england