1992 And All That

"Let's take benefits away from those who refuse work," says David Cameron. Ah, that one again. It's a attractive idea, of course, although those to whom it is most obviously applicable would probably be "new" claimants within a week. But in 1992, large numbers of the unemployed who would either have voted Labour for hereditary reasons, or else not voted at all, instead turned out and voted Tory in order to keep themselves on the dole from which Neil Kinnock sought to rescue them. Think on.