Unless we think imaginatively, benefits will be consigned to history | Tom Clark

Rather than fight each and every cut to benefits, the left needs to a new way of making welfare viableWhen the crash came in 2008, Britain had almighty reason to be grateful for its welfare state. Although more GDP disappeared than in any previous slump since the war, inequality did not immediately increase but actually briefly fell, far fewer jobs disappeared than during the 1980s, and not as many people were turfed out of their homes as had been in the more modest dip of the 90s. Wages were sq