I do not think I would be much of a blogger if I didn’t send you all here, to an excellent Guardian article spelling out precisely how damaging the government cuts to the benefit system are. One woman, who had lost her job, car and house due to stress was told she would have her benefits cut just because an assessor, who had just met her, said she could ”walk, talk and dress nicely”. These cuts are making people suffer; they are draconian; they remind me of thee ‘poor laws’ of the nineteenth century. I refuse to believe this is all part of an effort to cut the deficit, but an attempt to implement Tory philosophy at its harshest. And what is more sickening is that the Liberals, who under Asquith and Lloyd George fought so hard to end the poor law system, are complicit in all this.