The United Kingdom’s benefits system cost you, the taxpayer, £230 billion a year. 5.5 million people in Britain are on some form of out of work benefits. Of these, most on Universal Credit, about 3.7 million, while around 1.6 million are on incapacity benefit. The question is how many of these could in fact work, and does the current system disincentivise people moving off benefits and into work? This is very important because we’re told that we have a labour shortage and therefore need mass immigration. Bear in mind 1.4 million net in the two years to June of 2023 to plug the labour gap, but …