As Nick Robinson points out David Cameron’s supposed big policy idea to make every incapacity benefit claimant to face a fitness for work test is nothing new.
Listen very hard. What do you notice? Labour are not condemning Tory proposals to take £25 a week off people on incapacity benefit who are deemed “fit for work”.
The reason is that, although they’ve hardly shouted this from the rooftops, that’s their policy too. Yes, that’s right the government has already published plans to make every claimant of incapacity benefit face a tougher fitness-for-work test which will lead some to be switched off £89/week IB and onto £64/week JSA – the job seeker’s allowance. Nick Robinson, BBC.
Sad but true.