IN his fortnightly MP's column for the Grimsby Telegraph Martin Vickers talks about welfare reform and the decisions that have to be taken…
"Governments have, as they are very fond of telling us, to make unpopular decisions and in the present financial circumstances that's absolutely true and it would make no difference which party was in power – you can't pay out what you haven't got, unless you're foolish enough to borrow beyond what you have the means to repay, as Gordon Brown seemed prone to do.
It was an article in one of Thursday's morning papers that contained figures which show action must be taken and can't be postponed.
I quote the figures not to pass judgement as to whether or not they should exist merely to show how unsustainable the present system is."
Read the full column in your Telegraph today.
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