Disability: Is Labour turning the corner at long last?
Readers of this blog will know there is no love lost between Vox Political and Liam Byrne. He’s a Tory in Labour shoes, and a frightening symptom of the malaise gripping what used to be a “democratic socialist” political party.
However, his speech on Wednesday seems to indicate that Labour policy on social security for the disabled is turning a corner – away from the pseudo-Tory murderous nonsense of recent years (decades?) and towards something slightly more sensible.
There’s a lot of waffle and a lot of political flannel – you don’t want to read about Ed Miliband saying how “a One Nation Labour government will reform social security so that once again it works for working people” – that doesn’t mean anything at all.
And he’s still banging on about “work for everyone who can work… That’s how we start to bring welfare spending under control” without acknowledging…
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