The Telegraph deserves some credit today. It runs a heartbreaking story about the reality of life on benefits, of the sort both the Conservative and Labour parties want to be “tough” on. It’s a piece of gripping, truthful and hard-hitting journalism, highly and properly critical of the party the paper steadfastly supports. Hats off to the author.

Then you read the comments.

That’s just from the first few pages. Comments are pouring in faster than we can read them, most in similar vein. And remember, this is the Telegraph, the relatively human end of the Tory spectrum. Imagine what it’d be like in the Express or the Daily Mail, then tell us again how Scottish social attitudes aren’t different to English ones.

As someone once said – we’ve got to get out of this place.