The state of this:

This Writer suspects that the editors of The Sun have run this story because the Department for Work and Pensions has been shown up for denying benefits to people who deserve them, in order to meet a quota.

The policy has caused a huge amount of suffering – both due to deprivation and damage to mental health. So The Sun runs a piece attempting to remind the easily-led that benefit claimants are an underclass in Tory Britain, worthy only to be ‘nudged’ off-benefit and toward death.

“And,” as @TyronWilson puts it, “when you actually read the story it says that she saves her benefits all year and doesn’t spend money on herself so she can do this for her kids.”

And there is always the backstop reason for stories like this:

What is purpose of this front page if not to encourage people to hate people on benefits?

That way they are less likely to be angry about rich & the taxcheating of people like Rupert Murdoch who owns the Sun

How do editor & journalists justify such vile journalism to themselves? https://t.co/xIaBdrGwah — Tom London (@TomLondon6) December 15, 2017

It’s miserable and mean-spirited – as is anybody who believes and/or supports it.

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