Welfare spending: how Britain outstrips Europe

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 15 Jan 2014 | Joel Gunter and Dan Palmer

[Berlin_Freeper]

Welfare spending in Britain has increased faster than almost any other country in Europe since 2000, new figures show.

The cost of unemployment benefits, housing support and pensions as share of the economy has increased by more than a quarter over the past thirteen years – growing at a faster rate than in most of the developed world.

Spending has gone up from 18.6 per cent of GDP to 23.7 per cent of GDP – an increase of 27 per cent, according to figures from the OECD, the club of most developed nations.

By contrast, the average increase in welfare spending in the OECD was 16 per cent.

[RWB Patriot]

Gonna be a lot of angry looters and moochers when the money runs out.

[skinkinthegrass]

the Arabs et.al., are breeding like voles/mice.
(the invasion is continuing as planned..cloward/piven)
bennies for all, pity / d@mn the poor (responsible)
taxpayers but, they voted the Marxists in over
the decades...and we're in the same situation.

[CorporateStepsister]

Yes there will be. I’m certain that the rioters though will be the fewer people who are working to pay for these moochers.

[Gay State Conservative]

More and more,welfare's becoming a career choice...a *multi-generational* career choice...in the West.And that's *exactly* the way West's Marxist parties want it.

[Chode]

Ungland will soon have a military that consists of one sailor on a sailboard, a one person glider air force and one man army... feh

[SunkenCiv]

> The cost of unemployment benefits, housing support and pensions as share of the economy has increased ... from 18.6 per cent of GDP to 23.7 per cent of GDP – an increase of 27 per cent ... the average increase in welfare spending in the OECD was 16 per cent.

Thanks Berlin_Freeper.