Welfare reform

I was struggling a bit to come up with one angle on welfare reform. I could have gone with any number of links to The Telegraph, The Guardian or the pointless and diverting campaign to get Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week.
And then the Daily Mail did a typically vitriolic and obfuscatory job on their front page yesterday and my point became easy.

Sometimes, individual, extreme cases are used to make political points in the wider context of social policy by people who require 'evidence'.

But I would argue that Mick Philpott is no more typical of parents who claim child benefit than Abu Hamza is of Muslims.

Or Boris Johnston, David Cameron, Sir George Young, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Oliver Letwin and Zac Goldsmith are of men who went to Eton.