Let's have some constructive criticism

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Some of the comments I've been hearing in response to the government's plan to offer free financial advice to every UK adult within the next five years have been really shocking.

Lots of advisers have slammed the initiative, saying it has no chance of working and that it is, quite frankly, a ridiculous idea. But the comment which really made me angry was that people should be responsible for their own actions and shouldn’t be handed things like free advice on a plate. Considering the country is facing a debt crisis, which if it continues will result in fewer and fewer people being able to afford to pay for advice and therefore less clients for advisers, I would have thought the initiative would have been welcomed. Sometimes it seems like people in the finan...

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