Brown 0 - Field 1.

.... this has always been apparent from his {Brown's} determination to trap people ever higher up the income scale into welfare dependency through the extension of means-tested benefits; to penalise and undermine marriage, the most effective institution for helping people live self-reliant lives; and effectively to nationalise childhood through ever more intrusive child care provision.
There was one anti-poverty campaigner who saw through all this from the start. He warned that Gordon Brown's agenda was likely to deepen and widen poverty rather than alleviate it.
He warned that the extension of means-testing would spread the net of welfare dependency still further and suck more people into dishonesty as they succumbed to the temptation-to fiddle the system.....
And he warned about the deserts of fatherlessness and uncontrollable children being created by welfare incentives for single parenthood.
The name of that far-sighted individual was Frank Field. It is indeed fitting that the revolt against the abolition of the 10p tax band has been led by Mr Field.
For not only have his prescient warnings fallen on deaf Treasury ears, but he has always held Chancellor Brown responsible for the abrupt termination of his ministerial career when, having been charged by Tony Blair to think the unthinkable about welfare, he was promptly sacked when he did.'
Thankyou AGAIN Melanie for 'telling it how it is.'

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=562459&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=256&in_check=N