Benefit reform

With all this talk of welfare reform the key thing ot note is that there are people who are disabled as well as elderly, some do voluntary work and some can't or becasuse of related illnesses need to remain at home and stable (such as the tagged offenders on addictiomn treatment programmes who aren't a danger anymore but if they drink or start blowing their benefits on drugs might be).

As such by all means keep benefits in line with wages so that those who do work don't get resentful, but ensire that their supportmechanisms don't have their funding cut. Otherwise the longer term costs to the police and the courts and possibly prison is far higher.

I think that teh universal redit is a good idea and clear tax and benefit advice should be readilly availible in all media by all forms of government and in education so that all pupils from teh day that they set their part time wages get state support if their ambitions fail at univeristy or college. However that screws up the way socialists historically get votes on the back of engineered resentments

James Ware