The Tories’ new idea for ‘welfare’ is actually an old idea that's been resurrected. In 2013, Alec Shelbrooke introduced a bill to put benefits payments onto cash cards. It failed and he withdrew it.
I wrote about it here.
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Alec Shelbrooke: hypocrisy, lies and smears
I completely missed the story of Alec Shelbrooke’s withdrawal of his hated benefits cash card bill last month. Shelbrooke, whose waistline grows bigger each day he sits in the Commons, is no …