The scourge of the Benefits System is Child Benefits. This benefit if stopped would immediately save the UK £11 billion a year.

It is a relic of the post war years when to rebuild Britain it was deemed necessary to give some money towards the cost of having the eldest child. When money was sloshing around this was then extended to each other child as well.

Who benefits from this ?
People who have LOADS of children. Who then live in luxury even if they dont work. We see them in the press with their huge homes and income from Benefit.

It is the VICKY POLLARD benefit.

If people want to have children they cant expect the STATE to pay towards them in 2009 unless they are poor and even then they should not keep having children if they cant afford them.

It is a totally unfair benefit. It discriminates against single people - against non child families - and it discriminates against those races which practice some form of birth control either via contraception or abstinance.

Before they take away WINTER FUEL PAYMENTS from pensioners - and before they sack Doctors or Nurses - this particular benefit must be stopped.

At £11 billion a year it would eventually save £100 billion over 10 years which would really take the pressure off public finances.

In addition by stopping

ID CARDS
The ISA ( Vetting Authority )
and QUANGOS

We could save another £10 billion a year.

This would save £200 billion over 10 years meaning NO CUTS to the NHS or SCHOOLS at all. Which is surely where we want the money to go - equally to all of us.

You've missed the point about Child Benefit slightly, BR. The Vicky Pollards would be no worse off if it were scrapped, as their income based benefits would pick up the shortfall. The problem with Child Benefit is the fact that it is not income based and the richest man in the country is able to claim it, so I do agree that it should be scrapped but for a different reason. There is no need for it, but it's not exactly a vote winner, is it?