Economic growth in Britain slows to 0.2%, does that prove cuts do halt recovery?

NO! With unemployment rates increasing due to economic depression it would absolutely terrible. The majority of people who are unemployed and earning benefits don't want to be in that situation, they have been made redundant, or just left uni and looking for a job, yet they are being penalised by the government and made out to be villains, it's wrong.

There's a small amount of people in this country who are 'useless layabouts' and those people should be discovered and punished not the other decent people. There are so many people in this country living in poverty already reducing the amount of money that they get is just plain and simply selfish, I'm not even near that situation yet I can see. The government want to create an elitist system, increasing the uni fees, cutting EMA and now thinking about giving poorer people food coupons (which is just degrading).

It is the middle and upper class preserving Conservatives which initially put the country in this situation by making everything private. Everyone wants to be rich and they don't might stepping on other people to get there. I wish that people could see that if we shared every thing equally we would all still have a lot.

What happen to equality and equal opportunity! Also this recession is due mainly to people who spent out of their means and a lot of these people where middle class and upper class, as well as working class, so they shouldn't they be penalised too?

You should be working for the Government who will I'm sure welcome you with open doors. And just who are you to make these assumptions, and know what people should get or not get. This country at the moment does not cater for the lower class in out society.

And nobody likes to be totally dependent on the Welfare State. And if no employer will take you on, what's the options? You seem to think that jobs are a plenty and one can just walk into one.

I remember the time when you could, and life was a lot better. The long termed out of work people do not get any help with getting any kind of job period! I became unemployed at 45 and could never get another job, however much I tried.

And I was not a skilled person, only a semi-skilled person, but my age was against me. Now the age discrimination law has come in effect to stop what happened to me, happening to others. Does it work?

Remains to be seen. Givemestrength.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.