Sickness benefits crackdown is critical for the health of both the economy and young people

Gen Z scars

A CRACKDOWN connected the fig of radical connected sickness benefits is not lone captious for the economical wellness of the state but besides for the wellness of our young people.

Britain cannot spend for a ample swathe of Generation Z — oregon immoderate different procreation — to beryllium idle. The Gen Zedders themselves can’t spend to beryllium near behind.

Yes, galore intelligence health problems are genuine enough, arsenic Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall concedes.

But plentifulness much are self-diagnosed and encouraged by societal media.

Many of today’s 18-25s person plentifulness to beryllium stressed astir — saddled with acquisition debt, facing planetary fiscal instability and with rapidly diminishing prospects of ever owning their ain home.

But the past happening they request is to beryllium near languishing on payment handouts.

Work volition springiness them purpose, caller skills, and an indispensable consciousness of their worthy successful the world. And they person truthful overmuch to connection to employers consenting to spot successful them.

The Government indispensable marque definite they are learning skills that are needed, and marque it easier for firms to employment young radical and springiness them a leg-up successful life.

Not enactment much and much obstacles successful their way.

Non-policing

A NEW study for Policy Exchange has recovered that much than 60,000 police hours are spent investigating societal media posts.

What a shameful discarded of constabulary resources that should beryllium utilized to tackle existent crime — specified arsenic rape, burglary, shoplifting, amerciable drugs and the detonation of weapon offences — and what an outrageous onslaught connected our precious freedom of speech.

The probes are often not into transgression offences, similar incitement to violence, but into “non-crime hatred incidents” — NCHIs — that anyone with wounded feelings tin marque a ailment about.

Former Detective Chief Inspector David Spencer, who has highlighted this nonsense, is perfectly justified successful calling for NCHIs to beryllium abolished.

If they are “non-crimes”, past what connected earth person they got to bash with the police? Absolutely nothing.

Strike spikers

IS determination immoderate transgression much cowardly than drink-spiking?

Pathetic men progressively usage this vile method to prey connected girls enjoying a nighttime out, and it is apt to get worse arsenic we caput into the festive enactment season.

Home Office curate Jess Phillips is close to picture it arsenic a diabolical act.

Training for barroom unit and information guards to spot the crime, and to assistance the victims, is welcome, but adjacent much truthful is making spiking a circumstantial transgression offence, alternatively than cases falling nether respective antithetic laws arsenic now.

We look guardant to the perpetrators spending agelong spells successful jail.