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UK Minister compares cutting disability benefits to force the disabled into work, to a parent cutting child's pocket money to encourage them to get a Saturday job. (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

'Sorry I should have used a different analogy to explain why im committing social murder'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

wait hold on, he's... not criticizing the government with that analogy????

(i'm not from the uk, sorry)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Nope, its what he said and hes backtracking on it.

The backtracking not being 'sorry for saying that, we will not do this anymore'

just 'sorry I said that, I should have said it in a nicer way but we're still going to cut disabled peoples benefits'