I agree wholeheartedly, thank God someone has something to say. So far all I have seen is the reports on the DAN protest in London. Where are the big protests against this bill, where are the massed marches? To recap, the bill 1) Abolishes Income Support and replaces it with Employment Support Allowance and a new test for claimants 2) Lowers the age at which single parents are forced to seek work from a child of age 16 to age 12, or face benefits reductions 3) Introduces tough and rough penalties for people not taking the worst paid and worst conditioned work going, including having beneifts cut off for four weeks and being forced into manual labour for a sub-minimum wage benefit, and 4) introduces lie detector tests for claimants.

It's time for people to e-mail and write to their MPs en masse, march on London and get organised around claimant's action groups to protect the most vulnerable people in society at a time when unemployment is going to increase not decrease. This is classic recession scaremongering over single mothers and benefits culture, blame the disabled, the mentally ill, the unemployed, when billions are being shelled out to underwrite the banks.