THE LAST DITCH

Link: Nearly two million ‘wrongly’ get benefit – Times Online.

  1. The coffers are empty.
  2. Unemployment benefit is cheaper than disability benefit.
  3. Higher unemployment is to be expected anyway as the economy goes into recession.
  4. A new "government advisor" finds that the "right-wing tabloids" were right after all.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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  1. jameshigham's avatar

    It’s difficult, Tom, to find the right word for it. “Feminisation” is not bad for describing the softening of boundaries…

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  3. Lord T's avatar

    I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…

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  5. tom.paine's avatar

    That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…