Just what is the responsible thing, mister Purnell..??

If he is not lecturing, penalising and moralising people then he is sending cruddy emails to your inbox. That’s one of the many punishments you get for being a LP member….

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Hi,
I have spent today meeting with people on the Dewsbury Moor estate. 

 

You can see a video of my visit here.

This is the estate where Karen Matthews lived but it is also an estate where hundreds of local people pulled together to help look for a little girl that was missing.  It is also a community that David Cameron attacked, without ever stepping foot here and without ever talking to people here. He promised he would come and visit but he still hasn’t because he has nothing positive to say. He only wanted to point the finger, not to offer a helping hand.
 
I listened to lots of people today who have told me how they see their community. Some were getting by or doing well. Some are finding things really tough because they or someone in their family has lost their job in this downturn. Some were struggling long before this downturn arrived. But everyone I met wanted to do the right thing.
 
That is the big divide between Labour and the Tories on changing the welfare state. The Tories look at communiti es like this one up and down the country and only see the bad.  I see communities with problems but I also see people with ambitions for their families who are struggling to do good. And I see a new welfare state as the way to help people unlock their future.
 
That is why we are changing the benefits system to reward people who do the responsible thing with more support.  In the last recession the Tories wrote off millions of people to a life on benefits, scarring our communities. With Labour the legacy of this recession can be a welfare state that gets Britain back to work, lifts families out of poverty and spends less on the costs of unemployment and more on getting individuals the help they need to live their lives to the full.

Yours sincerely,

James Purnell MP

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