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The Bickerstaffe Record has an absolutely exceptional article about the government's welfare reform proposals. It concludes:

"The challenge is about ramming home to national politicians the fact – the evidence fact – that policy-making does not mean policy-implementing, and that there is a real risk that the whole thing will go more pear-shaped than they can imagine, with no-one receiving ‘personalised support’, but lots of people brutalized by a system which seems to care even less than it did before, one that doesn’t ‘raise expectations’, but dashes hope of a fair deal from the state."