The Chancellor has made the decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap in full, and apparently we’re all meant to celebrate. We’re supposed to smile politely and agree that this is some great moral victory. But I can’t. In fact, I won’t. All this decision does is reward irresponsibility while punishing the very people who actually get up and go to work in the first place. Let’s be completely honest, this is not a complicated debate. It’s basic common sense. Yet I’m tired of being told I’m selfish for asking a simple question: Why should people who work hard have to subsidise people who don’t?

Why should those who put in the hours, who juggle bills, who sacrifice daily, be told that they must tighten their belts yet again, so others can loosen theirs? It’s not cruelty. It’s not heartlessn

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