Hands off benefit fraud

Benefit fraud must be left untouched and be allowed to continue. That's the message from Peter Beresford at commentisfree.

The coalition, he says, "does not seem to have learned lessons the folly (sic) of vicious attacks on welfare claimants recognised well over a century ago by the Victorian Poor Law, the modern byword for cruel and vindictive welfare regimes".

There's more such blinkered stuff in a post which will admit of no shades of grey.

Peter Beresford is professor of social policy at Brunel University. Not a neutral academic, a crudely one sided propagandist.