ROSSENDALE and Darwen MP Janet Anderson seems to have found it necessary to explain New Labour (old Tory) policies. She says: "Talk of raking benefits off the most vulnerable is scaremongering" (Letters, January 14).
Can she confirm that if a single mother gets job and then, for whatever reason, loses it, she will return to a lower benefit? Can Ms Anderson explain this? Are single parents in the 'well-heeled' group?
Are disabled people being told to get a job or lose benefits also because they are in the 'well healed' group?
New Labour was voted in to stop the scroungers and the fiddlers and to get the youth of the country back to work. Most single parents and most disabled do not fall into 'scroungers' category.
Bring the minimum wage in first, then some of the people who are being targeted will have a decent wage to draw and not have to work 80 hours at £2.40 an hour in order to live. I'll vote for that!
SAM SPENCE, Ribblesdale Place, Blackburn.
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