The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132448   Message #2999237
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
04-Oct-10 - 07:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Labour's new Miliband ... reactions ...
Subject: RE: BS: Labour's new Miliband ... reactions ...
"If people capable of work refuse jobs, should their benefits be cut?"

"Three quarters of the population think people on benefits should be living in poverty."


Agreeing with that question does not imply agreeing with the second.

It is perfectly reasonable to think that where suitable work is available which we are capable of doing, we should take it up rather than living on benefits, and that a fully adequate level of benefits should be paid whenever this is not so. And that the minimum wage should be at a level which amounted to a living wage,