Caring
Generous
Compassionate
Imaginative
Just
Supportive
Fair
Seven adjectives of social responsibility and common good.
Seven principles of community building and resource sharing.
Seven opportunities to make life more secure for all of us by making life less precarious for others.
Seven positives that give life and energy to social welfare policy.
But all these encouraging Yes words can easily be negated by the ugly, life diminishing little prefix "Un".
The Chancellor's speech yesterday was an Un-speech.
Uncaring, ungenerous, uncompassionate, unimaginative, unjust, unsupportive and unfair.
My prayer for our communities: "Give us (the poor especially) this day our daily bread".
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