The government’s plan to help the disadvantaged was outlined in its Social Exclusion Plan on Monday.
The moral basis of the Plan was “rights and responsibilities”. That is, the right of the government to interfere in the lives of people it thinks don’t know what’s good for them, and the responsibility of these “customers” to acquiesce.
Mark Ballard pins it down precisely in The Register.
I once concluded a conversation by saying. “All right. I change my mind. French government spending on the TGV was not a waste of money, as it allows me to get out of France very quickly whenever someone utters the phrase “social exclusion”. Alas, though, nowhere is safe any more.