IAIN Duncan Smith, aided by a so-called independent Bank of England deputy governor Ben Broadbent, seeks to create a low skilled, low-paid workforce by cutting benefits even more.

Considering most benefits given are the bare minimum the Government states that people need to live on how will they do it?

Part of Duncan Smith’s job description is work. When is he going to take a look at the construction industry which operates a ‘no card, no work’ policy, something I thought Mrs Thatcher had outlawed?

Maybe it’s one law for trade unions and another for the monopoly that controls the sale of the cards. Restricted practice springs to mind.

Iain Camick Westhoughton