Benefits policy so uncivilised

THERE have recently been a few committees which have been examining what appears to be an inhuman policy of the present Conservative Government, that the first two children of any family may receive tax credit benefit from the state, but the third child, as a baby, will receive no equivalent.

Charities are presently deciding if they should take the Government to the Supreme Court, to declare this to be illegal.

But I am astonished that Mrs May and her cronies are prepared to introduce such policies, at a time when several of my friends are prepared to tell me that they admire her and her silly, “strong and stable” public relations slogans.

Surely even diehard Tories, who have never been perceived by others as compassionate human beings, cannot possibly go to the polling booth and vote for a government and politicians who delight in denying food to babies as some kind of punishment

I have always considered Tories to be self-centred, but eager to retain at least a vestige of respectability. What will Conservatives think of each other, when they have branded themselves by this vicious and totally uncivilised policy, once they have cast their vote for it? Their own children should disown them with contempt. It is unnatural, so that even savage tribes in New Guinea’s jungle live by higher moral standards than Mrs May can comprehend.

Is this what the country of our birth has sunk to, to be the pariah of the civilised world? Neville Westerman Brynna