Benefits - Labour vs Conservatives?

The major problem is that since Corbyn's election, there hasn't been a coherent policy agenda put forward. Which is, in some ways, fair enough - there's not an election on the horizon, but it means they can't be meaningfully compared.

Labour are quite happy for anyone to get some regardless of their circumstances. The Tories not so much.

This is a joke. How people blindly follow him is beyond me.

Looking at their website there isn't a single policy mentioned at all. You can find the 2015 manifesto if you use Google but it isn't linked to on the site as far as I can see.

but didn't Labour start up the whole Atos thing, bringing in a company and allowing them to fail as many disabled people as possibly to save money?

I suspect there's next to nothing in the 2015 manifesto we can reasonably assume is guaranteed under the current party leadership. There's been, in effect, a break in policy. **

I think it would be credible if the tests were fair and took everything, like how the condition is over a long time into account, not just how it is on the day the person is assessed. They also need to be stop trying to just get everyone into work, some people aren't physically able to

When it comes to Welfare Tories will basically make a vulnerable person destitute. The only reason why they haven't reduced the numbers of disability claimants is because disability organisations have been fighting back relentlessly and are actually winning more cases against the Government than during the Blair years.Blairites within Labour are pro-austerity but they haven't managed to go full Tory turncoat mode yet because there is a strong Neo-Old Labour movement in the Labour party.

The major problem is that since Corbyn's election, there hasn't been a coherent policy agenda put forward. Which is, in some ways, fair enough - there's not an election on the horizon, but it means they can't be meaningfully compared.

* Welfare Reform, as a concept, was prompted under Tony Blair. In 2008, things like the Work Capability Assessment came in alongside Employment and Support Allowance - although these are often conflated with Conservative/Coalition reforms.

* The Conservatives flagship policy was Universal Credit, which intends to combine working-age income-dependent benefits and creates a uniform rate where benefits are withdrawn as income from work increases - ending the situation whereby a part-time worker taking on more hours could be hugely penalised by the benefits system for doing so.

* There's some agreement between parties that doesn't really get noticed. Labour changed the tax credits system considerably, but even Alastair Darling, chancellor at the time, has admitted that spending on this rose in a way that was never intended. George Osborne tried to reduce these rather bluntly, but had to settle for a more scaled-down version after opposition within his own party. What Jeremy Corbyn thinks of this is anyone's guess. Both pledges in 2015 to continue with the Coalition's triple-lock on pension increases.

*There's lot of small things too, such as how under 25s are dealt with. There's not a lot of consistency behind these policies on either side, so it's basically political opposition. Social housing underoccupancy is a sticking point, with Labour pressing its "abolish the bedroom tax" line, but that seems a bit like political opportunism to me and doesn't really represent a significant change to the welfare system.*