Thread by @prospect_clark, George Osborne’s “two-child” policy broke the link between mouths to feed & [...]

Tom Clark

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George Osborne’s “two-child” policy broke the link between mouths to feed & support received which traces back to the Elizabethan poor law

Instead, it treated children as a consumer good

The effects were grimly predictable & here they are h/t @resfoundation

Some thoughts from a while ago on why this was going to happen https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/amber-rudds-so-called-u-turn-on-the-two-child-benefit-cap-isnt-good-enough">https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/...

Amber Rudd's so-called "u-turn" on the two child benefit cap isn't good enough - Prospect Magazine

The policy treats children like consumer goods rather than human beings. It's time to end it

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/amber-rudds-so-called-u-turn-on-the-two-child-benefit-cap-isnt-good-enough

Had a question on dates

Remember the household benefit cap which started to break the link between family size & benefits came in earlier — soon hit in london especially

Remember the demonisation of large families on social security that, with savage irrelevance, was stoked after Mick Philpott killed several of his kids in a fire https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/social-security-philpott-editorial">https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp...

Social security and the Philpott case: from death to distortion | Editorial

Editorial: In discussing the terrible tale of Mick Philpott's six dead children, it has not been the left but the right that has downgraded individual moral responsibility, by playing up the supposed...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/social-security-philpott-editorial

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