Hallelujah!
That’s the headline on the front page of today’s Daily Mail. This is in response to former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey saying that his fellow bishops are wrong about the benefit cap where he said
The sheer scale of our public debt, which hit £1trillion yesterday, is the greatest moral scandal facing Britain today.
He also said
The truth is that the welfare system has gone from the insurance-based safety-net that William Beveridge envisaged in 1942 (designed to tackle the ‘Giant Evils’ of ‘Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness’) to an industry of gargantuan proportions which is fuelling those very vices and impoverishing us all. In the worst-case scenario it traps people into dependency and rewards fecklessness and irresponsibility.
You can read the whole brilliant article here.
It is so much more than brilliant.
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