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UK: Inflicting suffering on those in need is now at the heart of our benefits system

13 March 2015

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"The ideology of a small state or the belief that benefits build dependency are crass, irrelevant details to what at its core is simply a decision about how to treat a human being. This is particularly damning when one person has all the power and the other is forced through economic necessity to take whatever humiliation or pain they are given. To do that to someone let alone hundreds of thousands is no accident. It is a conscious decision, that has been made over and over again by this government."

See the article: Inflicting suffering on those in need is now at the heart of our benefits system (The Guardian, link)

See also: Discipline and discontent: coalition government extends "slave labour" welfare policy (Statewatch Journal, March 2013)

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