The Only Solution To The Welfare Crisis Facing Britain's Sick and Disabled Might Be Prison

If a prison decided to implement a policy of punishing its inmates by cutting their food supply, it would be universally condemned as a human rights abuse. But this government is doing essentially the same thing to its own citizens. It is the sole source of money to people on benefits just as the prison is the sole source of food to its inmates. Cutting their access to this essential supply is cruel and inhumane. And, worst of all, this government is being allowed to get away with it.

Excerpted From: The sickening truth about food banks that the Tories don't want you to know - Comment - Voices - The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-sickening-truth-about-food-banks-that-the-tories-dont-want-you-to-know-10195840.html


I've often stated on Twitter that Britain's benefit claimants are treated worse than criminals—and sanctioned benefit claimants are treated much worse than those fined in court.

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Sanctioned benefit claimants are treated much worse than those fined in the courts. - See more at: http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/benefit-sanctions-britains-secret-penal-system#sthash.0nqMSwdZ.dpuf

Sanctioned benefit claimants are treated much worse than those fined in the courts. - See more at: http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/benefit-sanctions-britains-secret-penal-system#sthash.0nqMSwdZ.dpuf

Sanctioned benefit claimants are treated much worse than those fined in the courts. - See more at: http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/benefit-sanctions-britains-secret-penal-system#sthash.0nqMSwdZ.dpuf