So much written on this site criticises our noble Chancellor of the Exchequer that it seems almost cruel to stick the boot in yet again - but the man is an old style socialist and so we must expect disaster over the financial areas which he runs.A report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies reveals that, since 1997, benefit claimants get to keep less for choosing to work than they did 9 years ago. 2.5p in the pound to be precise. "Life can sometimes move in certain ways" do I hear you say? - Well. That would be fine had there not been wholesale, complex, so-called reforms of tax and benefits by Mr Brown specifically designed to have the opposite effect.
People on benefits continue to choose to stay at home.
