I have crawled across roads….

I have crawled across roads….

This report which I read recently on Facebook, is a chilling reminder of the real human cost of the government’s brutal cuts to the welfare bill. (If the current administration were less wedded to the idiocy that is Trident, the costs of welfare would be affordable, but that’s another story.)

In what feels like a former life, I used to keep lists of everything we had to get done at weekends, when Eddie was free and had a car to drive us around in. The nadir or my...