A week’s farm work will usually pay more than that. £100 per day is a reasonable expectation. I am no expert on UC or the whole benefit system but know that housing benefit has covered most of their rent for one of my previous tenants.

Exactly how to reform it to achieve the desired outcome is above my pay grade. It’s quite a challenge which is easier to just ignore but is something I believe has to be done.

It’s not just unskilled labour who populate the feckless and are milking the benefit system. Those with skills do so too. Nor is it just unskilled jobs that could be filled by them.

Take, for instance, someone who has a bad back and knees, but also computer skills. They obviously could not work in the fields but they could on a screen, possibly from home. Wouldn’t that be of greater benefit to society, and to their bank account than, for instance, posting controversial opinions on football websites at all hours?

One of my granddaughters has 3 children under 6. She is a mental health nurse and still manages to work full time, as does her husband. She works from home, at hours of her choosing, doing online interviews with those needing initial assessments. So the work is there, organised in ways that people can manage.

Some though don’t want to do it.

How, on earth, does anyone post 24 hours a day, every day.

Are they fed by tubes?

Sure they are, because our wonderful politicians are looking for short term solutions.
As usual, you are looking to deflect from the clear and obvious decline in our society by highlighting something you perceive as positive about immigration.
I'd rather our NHS had people who could speak proper English and who all understood the NHS culture.

Many immigrant NHS workers don't.

It’s not just around here, I think this is a widespread problem.

The work is hard and local people don’t want to do it. The problem is the benefit culture which enables people to survive without effort.

It’s not simply the unemployed who are involved. Many are able to draw benefits for other reasons when the reality is they could still work in some way, but choose not to. Anyone capable of posting on social media at all hours, who is of working age, is also capable of undertaking some kind of work.

The problem with them is that the costs involved in establishing the necessary support, training and verification systems outweighs the costs of just paying them benefits. So the political imperative isn’t there. The moral and long term imperative is though.

It’s not just around here, I think this is a widespread problem.

The work is hard and local people don’t want to do it. The problem is the benefit culture which enables people to survive without effort.

It’s not simply the unemployed who are involved. Many are able to draw benefits for other reasons when the reality is they could still work in some way, but choose not to. Anyone capable of posting on social media at all hours, who is of working age, is also capable of undertaking some kind of work.

The problem with them is that the costs involved in establishing the necessary support, training and verification systems outweighs the costs of just paying them benefits. So the political imperative isn’t there. The moral and long term imperative is though.

'English competency' passes.

Watching the decline.