Harriet Harman is a skilled and experienced politician, and if she feels the need to support her political opponents' policy to reduce benefits to claimants I am inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she knows what she is doing. As to the issue itself, I am inclined to be generous when it comes to benefits. But I don't really care too much about it. I am quite sure that a journalist who put his mind to it could come up with a highly outrageous story of people living dreadful lives funded by the public purse. And likewise, J.K.Rowling is not going to be the only example of someone for whom benefits provided a vital help in an otherwise highly productive life.
