Nigel Farage declares Labour is ‘bankrupting the country’ in scathing takedown of benefits bill: ‘It’s meaningless!’

The Labour party halved their original savings bill for the welfare reforms, climbing down from £5billion to £2.5billion.

Speaking to GB News, Farage invoked a historical parallel, stating: “I think it’s a quote from way back in the 60s when Macmillan’s Government was in trouble, ‘never glad confident morning again’.

Farage launched a scathing attack on the current disability benefits system, highlighting that “one in 10 of working age are on disability benefits” with many receiving approval through brief medical consultations.

“Many of them have been signed off by their GP on a 10-minute zoom consultation,” he said, calling this practice “a complete and utter nonsense”.

He noted that Government ministers had acknowledged systemic abuse, stating: “And the government themselves were saying, ‘look, there are people’, and I quote, ‘taking the mickey out of the system’.”

Despite this recognition, Farage argued the watered-down legislation failed to address these fundamental issues.

Farage argued the current system is fundamentally unfair to working people who “feel, why bother? I’ll be as well off on benefits.”

He emphasised that “the gap between unemployment and employment has to widen” but claimed the evening’s parliamentary proceedings had failed to address this issue.

The Reform UK leader linked the surge in disability claims to the pandemic period, stating: “Many of them who are on these claims have come in the last five years, since lockdowns, since the catastrophic impact of the pandemic that our Government put upon us.”

He concluded that the system “is unfair to taxpayers” and “bankrupting the country.”