Spot the difference

• Mike Smith
• 12 years ago
• Categories: benefits, same old national

There – “Cameron announces Tory plan to slash benefits.”

Here – “The Government wants Work and Income to cut the number of long-term beneficiaries on a working-age benefit by 30 percent over five years, Prime Minister John Key has just announced.”

Probably what the posh boys talked about over lunch at No 10 Downing Street a couple of weeks ago. The similarities are eerie, even down to promises to avoid anything to do with benefits for the aged.

Tories normally do this when they are in trouble.