High Quote by Emily Thornberry

Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.

— Grant Shapps

The Tories have built a system defined by insecurity - from wages to job contracts to housing to the welfare state. If they want…

— Owen Jones

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they…

— Thomas Sowell

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for…

— Eamon de Valera

Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce the incentives…

— Henry Hazlitt

Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop…

— Guy Standing

This resounding cry of 'welfare to work' enrages me because something like 75% or 80% of people who are on government assistance are already working.

— Stephanie Land

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

— David Miliband

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

— Jerry Costello

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

— Grant Shapps

“That is why we have welfare instead of workfare meaning that conservatives like welfare. It may sound like a shock to you but conservatives…

— William Domhoff

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

— Jim Babka