Sick people like Paul Chapman face a benefits system that is either broken or inhumaneA few stabbings in SW1,a couple of careers seriously injured. Politicians and pundits are frantically trying to shrink the implications of Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation down to Westminster size. So it’s approximately cabinet feuds and leadership hopes, George Osborne’s snottiness and David Cameron’s way with a swearword.
What the welfare secretary’s exit is not approximately, or you understand,is a busted austerity programme that has missed nearly every goal and deadline set forward by its creators. It’s not approximately a benefits system in chaos – economic chaos being so much uglier a prospect than a flat-pack “Tory civil war”. And it’s certainly not approximately the people who actually occupy to use that benefits system.
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Source: theguardian.com