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  I was determined to keep this apolitical but I now give up and will quote from the Grauniad.
  
  "But Philip Collins, a former speech writer to Tony Blair, warned that Labour was in danger of handing the political initiative to the Tories, as polls showed strong support for a crackdown on welfare. In his weekly column in the Times, Collins wrote: "This week the tanker of politics started to turn. The benefit cap - which limits welfare payments so that no family can receive more than average after-tax household earnings - was introduced. Housing benefit cuts began to bite.
  
  "Then the grotesque Mick Philpott became the stooge embodiment of all that is said to be wrong with a culture in which the idle take the rise out of the working population. We may look back on this as the week in which the coalition began to speak again to the British public while the forgetful Labour party slunk back on to the sofa."

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