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Feb 2025
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Why Britain's on Benefits - Fraser Nelso...

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Fraser Nelson is the former Editor of The Spectator, a Columnist for The Times and Sunday Times and in this interview discusses his Channel 4 Dispatches documentary "Britain's Benefits Scandal".


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00:00 Introduction

04:29 How Much Benefit Fraud Is Going On?

10:42 Learned Helplessness

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19:40 The Escalation Of Mental Health

25:00 How Much Of This Is Government Bureaucracy Unable To Act

30:40 The Financial Cost

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45:41 Effect On Employers

47:45 Fraser's Immigration Article

55:34 What Is The British Dream?

01:01:44 Immigration And Ethnicity Debate

01:24:01 What's The Thing We're Not Talking About That We Should Be?

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