abstract:"Cruel to Be Kind" is a 1979 single by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz band-mate Ian Gomm, that peaked at #12 in both the British and US charts that summer. Coincidentally, it also peaked at #12 in both Canada and New Zealand.
Unemployed people refusing an offer under these schemes would have their benefit cut being crueltobekind, says Labour, for its workfare jobs would be of high quality, unlike Tory ones.