The real benefit cheats are the employers who are milking the system

When the taxpayer is taking on so much of the cost of in-work benefit, and the employee getting so much of the blame, there's really only sheer nerve and hypocrisy left to be admired

I really don't know why the government is making such heavy weather of cutting 12bn off the benefits bill. That sum, and much more, could be cut at the stroke of a pen - though it would mean that the government would have to put its money where its mouth is and make it a legal requirement for employers to pay the living wage. If a company really can't afford to, then it's the company that should be applying for supplements, not the people who work for it.

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