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means testing Articles

The ‘nothing for something’ society

Labour’s proposal to cut winter fuel allowances for higher-rate taxpayers suggests we may be joining the Tories and Liberal Democrats in dismantling the inheritance of Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan and William Beveridge – at the top of a slippery slope towards a US-style...
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Funding long-term care: What are the choices?

For the coalition government, and for any future Labour government, the choices around adult social care funding in England can really be boiled down to two questions. The first is: what is the state going to spend on care and support in future and how will this money...
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A red card for universal credit

The overwhelming consensus is that the government’s universal credit is a wonderful idea. I beg to differ. There are two issues here: will it work, and is the reform desirable? On both counts the universal credit gets a red card. When newly assembled and the Commons...
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Not so Thatcherite, more Labour

The publication of the 2009 British Attitudes Survey appears to have given great joy to the Daily Mail (so that it can tell the Labour party it is out of touch with the public) and even in the Guardian the headline was ‘Britain ‘more Thatcherite than in 1980s”. This appears to be based on the answers to two questions: firstly, the fact that only 27 per cent thought that the government should spend more on benefits for the poor compared to 58 per cent in 1991, and, secondly, that only 36 per cent thought government should redistribute income compared to 51 per cent in 1989.

However, looking at some of the other results suggests there may be a different interpretation than the one the media is assuming.

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