From the Daily Telegraph, 5th March 2015:
Iain Duncan Smith: Taking people off benefits is ‘compassionate’.
… for too long it has been assumed that compassion is “soft” … There is nothing compassionate about increasing dependency by spending more of taxpayers’ money … No – Conservative compassion is about getting someone back to work, taking the tough choices to move someone clear of the benefits system.
From the Mirror, 6th March 2015:
Father killed himself after his benefits were cut and he was threatened with eviction
A father-of-three killed himself after his benefits were cut and he was threatened with eviction. … Mr McDonald’s benefits had been stopped by the Department of Work and Pensions … A spokesman for mental health charity Mind said: “It would be helpful to see what could be going wrong in the benefits system that leads to these tragic situations.”
What is wrong is Smith himself, making up the meaning of words as he goes along, to suit his agenda. He had a go at redefining the word “poverty”, recently, too. A terminally solipsistic individual who should not be in charge of “welfare”.
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