RECENTLY, Tony Blair initiated a cost-cutting offensive against people in receipt of Incapacity Benefit. He thinks that some sick people are whinging, skiving, hypochondriacs who scrounge off the taxpayers.
On a recent Radio 4 programme, You and Yours, was a report from a university survey of 1,000 Incapacity Benefit claimants, which concluded that only one out of the 1,000 claimants may possibly be making a false claim.
So why is Blair picking on sick people instead of targeting tax-avoiding big businesses who can afford to pay teams of expensive accountants to deprive Inland Revenue of millions of pounds?
J CUNNIFFE,
Malvern.
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