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HARRIET HARMAN is getting hated on for declaring Labour won’t oppose the Tories’ benefit cap. Harman also says Labour won’t oppose other cuts in their Welfare Bill, like a benefits freeze.
Something serious is obviously going on here, because words have become their opposite. The “Welfare” Bill is designed to make people fare badly, not fare well. And the Labour opposition has decided it doesn’t want to oppose because they don’t want to represent labouring people.
But I think the Harman haters are a little bit unfair, because Harman is just doing her job as she sees it: she is a conscientious interim Labour leader who wants to stand in the mainstream of the party. And she is only reflecting the policy of the party’s mainstream in not opposing anything the Tories do. In fact lots of worse things are happening inside Labour HQ, but Harriet had the misfortune to be noticed.
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