response to Irene's posting at 12.47 with an appropriate rebuttal, but it seems it's always a gamble to get any dissenting point of view posted on a SP column, so in the even that Emma reads this she may yet realise that billions Are being spent on such support - unlike Spain, Italy, Greece etc where Real cuts are having to be made because of their economic situations, so why would Emma expect the UK to be unaffected by the same situation here - or does she expect just an unlimited, untouchable expansion of expensive provision for what seems to be an unending wave of illness and disability? At the rate "new" illnesses are being diagnosed, it's seems possible that in a few years time we'll All be able to claim some sort of welfare payment for being "ill"? But who will then be left to pay?