So much of the welfare debate is lost in jargon and the numbingly large and depressing
numbers. John Bird, founder of The Big Issue, has just been on The Daily Politics and he condensed the specious waffle into plain but evocative
sound bites.
‘You don’t have a broken society without a broken system.
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