The expected unveiling of billions more in welfare payments in today’s Budget will amount to a textbook example of adding insult to injury.
It will prove to any remaining doubters that not only does Andy Burnham have no appetite for tackling the Benefits Britain mindset nurtured under his predecessor, but that he is willing to encourage it further.
One lesson from this is that both the Prime Minister and John Healey are unconcerned about the message sent to the legions only too happy to stay at home accepting state handouts. Even more disturbingly, it also suggests they are untroubled about what it
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