[Margaret Pilkington]

There is nothing at all wrong with my memory. I remember all those times...and much harder times before that......when there was not much in the way of welfare...or Public Assistance as it was called then.

I grew up just after the war and in those days if you didn't work(for whatever reason) then you didn't eat. My mother had three jobs(my father suffered blast injuries on D-day+6 and was unable to work) brought seven of us up in dire poverty, I do not recall us getting anything off the state........so please don't lecture me on poverty and what the Labour party did for the poor.