Work is good for you, says Blair in benefits shake-up

This is a major shift for the UK Labor (socialist) party. Maybe Blair has looked across the Channel and seen where the Frogs have ended up, and wants to avoid that fate for Britain.

Tony Blair warned the unemployed, single parents and those on incapacity benefit yesterday that they could no longer expect “a lifetime” on benefit.

He issued a “work is good for you” message as the Government announced a welfare shake-up aimed at getting a million people off incapacity benefit over the next decade, as well as a million people aged over 50 and 300,000 lone parents back into work.

Just like the cold-warrior Nixon was able to open relations with teh ChiComs, perhaps erstwhile socialist Blair might be able to pull off getting people off the dole, and back to work, which would be of benefit both to them, and to the state of the UK.