The "deserving poor" are the latest target of Government cuts

Sick and disabled people do not deserve the harsh treatment the Government has planned for them.

For over half a century, the prevailing view in British politics has been that people who are unable to work because of sickness or disability are more deserving of public support than those who are unemployed. The fit and able can be forced to work by cutting unemployment benefits to poverty level, but treating with such harshness those who, through no…