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"Madam President, I find it interesting when I listen to these debates. The House always seems to imagine that there is some huge tree with money on it and you just pick the money off. Well, we have heard all about poverty, we have heard all about unemployment – all of it is true. Perhaps you will bear with me while I explain why.
We have a crazy system of both corporate and social welfare. It is a failed post-war experiment. We have a system in the United Kingdom where we pay perfectly fit, healthy young men and women not to work. We import people from Eastern Europe to do that work. So we are pouring money into a complete dead-end of our economy and, in order to pay for it, we have to have things like 20% VAT, monstrous income tax and monstrous national insurance, which actually hamstring the economy from recovering.
The only way out of this terrible mess is growth, and we do just about everything we can possibly do here to stop the economy growing. If it is not social welfare, it is corporate welfare. We have a sort of crony capitalism. We do not have real capitalism; it is crony capitalism.
I have got landowning friends in Yorkshire, with 1 000 acres of mixed, who get GBP 100 000 a year and a single farm payment. They shove a couple of windmills on it and they are getting GBP 200 000 a year before they get out of bed. Of course people are in food poverty with this crazy system. For goodness sake, get rid of regulation, get rid of tax and free the thing up from this stranglehold, this cancer in society of welfare and get our young people back to work."@en1
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