Things you hear on the radio, No. 1

[Denzil_DC]

This was tucked away toward the end of today's Radio 4 PM news programme.

Brenda, mother of a 21-year-old autistic son, had this to say about the planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments:

I find the idea of taking £30 a week off people in order to encourage them to work really very strange, because at the same time as you’re taking £30 off people to encourage them to work, you’re paying other people more money. If you’re in the elite, if you’re in the government, if you’re at the top of the industry, you need to be paid money as a reward. You need to be paid money to make you do your job better.

However, if you’re at the bottom, you have to have money taken away from you in order to make you work, in order to make you work better.

And that seems a bit of a conundrum, really, because we’re all human.

There's more from Brenda on iPM, broadcast tomorrow at 5:45 (yes, that's in the morning), or available online here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073bblf

[LeftishBrit]

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