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"There are problems if you move to too much means-testing, as you can see with pensioners who do not take up income support"
Tony Blair, 1998. (The Labour Government proceeded to put more people than ever before on means-tested benefits. These benefits, such as the Pension Credit, were often not taken up.)
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"A splendid book. It's a devastating critique of the welfare state. A page-turner, yet also extensively sourced. Demonstrates how attempts to achieve good intentions have led to horrible results -- increasing crime and violence, worsened conditions of the very poor, an extraordinary deterioration in the quality and character of British life.
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winner.
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Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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