It's nothing you couldn't find elsewhere. The Beeb echoes the public and most of the public has an interest in their social "safety nets".
Gideon Osborne, le sage of British political strategy, decided to include a 4bn benefits cut to the incapacitated in the budget. The budget also contained an increase in pensions in line with inflation, an increase to the higher (40p) tax threshold, a reduction to capital gains tax, and a 25% increase to the tax free allowance for savers. He included it in the budget because it would only have had a chance of passing if it was a part of a greater package. There was media backlash and Gideon U-turned. Again.
IDS, the cabinet minister who resigned, is right in that these sort of reforms reinforce the perception of the Tory party as the 'nasty party' that only cares for the rich and working. He never actually said he disagreed with this instalment of welfare reform, just that he didn't like how they were "juxtaposed" with tax cuts in the context of the budget. In many ways, he's right.
What's being overlooked by the centre-left press is that most people in this country are working and do pay taxes. They're rational enough to see that things need to change. As the left-wing parties become the parties of immigration, entitlements and high taxation, they alienate a larger share of the C2DE population which they need as their base. The inevitable result, as we've seen, is working working-class people, of all incomes, voting Tory through cold arithmetic. The tragedy of course being that nobody has any passion or pride in the endeavour. We live in a time were no self-respecting Briton loves the Conservative Party.
Privatising Channel 4, downsizing the Beeb and abolishing the TV license (tax) was part of the Tory manifesto agenda. John Whittingdale, the Culture Secretary, is meant to start on this later on in the year, probably after the referendum. I don't think the Tories have the balls to do it though. If they try, they'll surely be defeated.