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No cut to welfare
“Mr Duncan Smith told them: “If you listen to what I am saying, you will understand the reality is that this country is not cutting welfare, it is managing the growth at a lower level.”“
Quote from IDS in Edinburgh yesterday.
Full story of his welcome to Scotland in the link.
That matches a comment I once got from a DWP enquiry about a benefit reduction.
“They are not worse off, they are just not as better-off as they would have been.”
I think he said “we are not cutting benefit expenditure, we are just slowing it down”. It calls to mind an image of a man hand-delivering the cheques from a cart being pulled by a very old horse…...