The assault on the poor and disabled

I reblogged this post in 'honour' of the Tory party conference and Ivan asked me to post it here, too. You can find the original post complete with links at: http://skwalker1964.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/the-tory-assault-on-the-unworthy-poor-what-kind-of-society-do-we-really-want-to-be/ Here are two true stories: A friend of mine once picked up a hitch-hiker at a motorway service station. The bloke looked a bit down on his luck, so my friend asked what his story was. The guy said he’d been ...