“Families who have never worked a day in their lives having 4 or 5 kids and the rest of us having 1 or 2 means it’s not long before we’re drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters that we pay to keep! Iain Duncan Smith’s cap proposal is spot on!”

—  Ben Bradley (politician)

Ben Bradley under fire for urging jobless to have vasectomies, The Guardian (2018)

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