Will the UK topple down a 'welfare cliff' in three months' time?

The US turmoil over fiscal matters has a mirror in the crisis approaching the welfare state, argues Dan Silver, as use of UK food banks rises six-fold

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/01/benefits-welfare

How should we live and work in 2013 to hold this reality together with the promise and challenge of the prophet?

Guard my common good:
Do what's right and do it in the right way,
For salvation is just around the corner,
my setting-things-right is about to go into action
(Isaiah 56, the Message)