Dispelling the myth

Clouds and their linings have crept onto the agenda again. Today the coalition government has announced that child benefit and the pensioner's winter fuel allowance are in the frame for doing their bit in reducing the welfare bill. Either ending or means testing these two is going to get the attention of a few people who would have had a more nonchalant attitude to other benefit cuts, such as the Employment and Support Allowance or Incapacity Benefit. While an "I'll be alright" attitude prevails for many of us in unemployment or sickness terms, kids and grannies are a different matter...