WHILE some degree of government control over social security abuse was necessary, the draconian statute and blanket crackdown by the Blair regime was undemocratic, seriously harmful and distressing to many thousands of vulnerable, sick and disabled citizens.
No recorded safeguard measures were effected by the Secretary of State, which was a reckless neglect of the due process consistent with the ruthless policies and growing arrogance of the Labour government.
The hallmark of dictatorship is to first repress society's poorest and vulnerable.
The Government's Stalinist policies are alien and unacceptable to our sovereign state - and repulsive to the consensus of public opinion.
RP McDougall,
Blackpool.
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