[Wynonie Harris]

So what?

Serco certainly aren't "do-gooders". They're a private company who have been contracted at a pre-negotiated fee to provide a service (because ever since the days of Thatcher, successive governments have contracted out more and more of the state's functions to private companies). Even if the company had decided to take them in the back of a Commer van, it wouldn't have made a scrap of difference to the amount the taxpayer forks out to Serco.

Still, it's a good story (which I see has been splashed all over the toilet paper that masquerades as the Daily Mail) and it diverts folks' attention from the fact that the government are dismantling the NHS and pushing thousands of ordinary working families into hardship by cutting tax credits, while they reward their rich mates.

A total non-story in my view.