Social security

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Social Security from the government.

This is in Israel.

Yeah.

Of course, he remembered his birth date.

It was one of those facts that always appears on your records, like your Social Security number.

He did some calculation in his head, as rapidly as the constantly shifting blank spots in his thinking would allow him.

"Yes, sir." "It shows here that you first underwent replacive surgery in 1991.

And, you know, as if, um, the rise of m- the machines wasn't enough, uh, the world just looks more dangerous, doesn't it? And the pressure to spend on defense is growing, but that money has to come from somewhere, ministers tell us.

Now, the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, says national security cannot come at the expense of social security.

The Conservatives say they'll cut welfare by twenty-three billion pounds.

Reform say, "Well, we'll take out twen- fifty billion from the welfare budget." Critics say this means the, the poorest will pay.

Um, Leslie Hson's been in touch on email.

"Hiking up inheritance tax would free up some of the wealth that the baby boomers are now passing on to the millennials and in turn their children.

Uh, this is money the Treasury could then use to protect and defend future generations as well as welfare and helping young people with housing and jobs, which is more important, the right of wealthy people to pass on most of their wealth, uh, to their offspring or the defense and wellbeing of the nation." Dave Lambert says, "I believe we do need to raise defense spending, but not at the expense of Social Security.

Wealthier retired people could pay more.

in PMQs, uh, this week.

I think Andy Burnham rather misspoke when he said, um, he wouldn't sacrifice, um, defense for Social Security.

I'm not sure that that was quite what he was meaning to say, but it's kind of ammunition for Kemi Badenoch, isn't it?

Yeah, we'll c- we'll come back to, you know, that, that...

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he was making a choice, and that is the, um, the thing which she'll jump on.

Yeah, national security, not at the, as you say, not at the price of Social Security, which Number 10 then rowed back on after the-

Of course he did, 'cause he-

... that you're ring-fencing housing.

Everyone will infer from it when you say Social Security is just as important as National Security, that you're ring-fencing all welfare spending.

You're basically saying, "I am not going to cut welfare for warfare."

And Labour's whole approach to welfare is we can spend our way out of the overspending problem.

Speaker, that we wouldn't have seen before, hundreds of thousands of children in temporary accommodation.

Can I say to the Right Honourable Lady-

Lady-Yes, we do everything to support our national security, but it can't come at the expense of social security.

Hear hear.