Writing in the Mail today, Iain Duncan Smith and Theresa May say Britain's
generous welfare system should no longer be a magnet for citizens of other EU states.
Social democracy and
a generous welfare system are nowhere to be seen in this account.
The foreign secretary has claimed that most migrants have conducted research about which countries have the most
generous welfare systems before heading to western Europe.
If younger voters start to see themselves as Labour voters - if this becomes part of their identity - this may override their generational shift in attitudes against
generous welfare systems, which some long - view right - wing strategists have been counting on.
Not exact matches
On the second, they're convinced that the
welfare system is too
generous and needs reform.
The argument that we need to make our
welfare state less
generous leads us to an end - point of a
system which provides no security, which pays far too little to live on, which traps people in poverty, and which allows costly problems to spiral out of control.
There will be a marked shift away from the traditional
generous British
welfare system to more punitive, American - style, one that ultimately comes down hard on those who refuse to work.
But it's worth recalling how little public outrage there has been at Vito's ruthless perversion of New York's
generous social
welfare system.
Presumably the benefits of the
welfare system are more
generous than those of the disability
system.