Well if these 3 examples are spoken of they are deemed right wing and are only simplistic iyo because the wall gets put up to stop a discussion because….They are deemed right wing racist and xenophobic as just a few descriptors .

Welfare cost approximately £230 billion in 2022-2023 - albeit I suspect the cost is greater if other relevant stuff was included.
I cannot answer what tax evasion etc cost and so am unable to compare.
However - it is surely about more than just the cost?
Many people included in that figure need our help and that is fine - a civilised society needs to help those who are unable to do so themselves.
Trouble is that the remainder are effectively robbing those in need of real help and the rest of us of our money.
At the same time they create nothing but use everything - schools, transport, hospitals - the list is endless.
They take twice and give nothing back - if that is a right wing view to despise those that take when they don't need to, then I am right wing.
Sorry - we are slightly off-topic

4% ! Sure, does anyone seriously believes that. Add a zero and it would be nearer the mark.

It's only estimated 4% of that amount is fraudulently claimed - as you say, the existence of a welfare system in itself is not the issue, so I don't think the total cost is a particularly relevant figure. With no fraudulent claims at all, it would still cost hundreds of billions a year.

Money out of the public purse is the same, whether it's fraudulently claimed benefits or unpaid tax, the result is exactly the same - rich people also use public infrastructure.

We as a society have been engineered to despise those people on benefits, who are nearly all powerless nobodies, more than we hate the corporates and the rich, who are the ones in the position to set the very tax laws that suit them, as well as influence the media narrative around that.

It's all a big racket, and benefit claimants are a useful pawn.

Everyone wants to stop the illegals. It’s doing it in a way which doesn’t conflict with our international treaty obligations and without risking the consequences of doing so which is the difficulty.

Although it produces the biggest headlines illegal immigration is only a relatively small part of the whole though.

Unless you want to stop families being together by stopping the family route, denying universities vital income from overseas students and our industries, especially the health and social care sector, from being staffed you simply cannot limit the numbers in the way you seek. It’s not possible.

Denying any British citizen their right of abode on the basis of their heritage is a really bright idea. Good luck with that.

Everyone wants to stop the illegals. It’s doing it in a way which doesn’t conflict with our international treaty obligations and without risking the consequences of doing so which is the difficulty.

Although it produces the biggest headlines illegal immigration is only a relatively small part of the whole though.

Unless you want to stop families being together by stopping the family route, denying universities vital income from overseas students and our industries, especially the health and social care sector, from being staffed you simply cannot limit the numbers in the way you seek. It’s not possible.

Denying any British citizen their right of abode on the basis of their heritage is a really bright idea. Good luck with that.