BENEFIT dodgers' days are numbered, according to bold new plans just announced to reform the welfare state.
The green paper New Ambitions for Our Country: A New Contract for Welfare sounds grand, with its spot fines for fiddlers, fitness-for-work tests and National Insurance clampdown.
The bad new is that it will take 20 years to complete. It's a bit like urging people who spot a crime occurring to write to the police, by second class post.
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