Polling on benefits remains grim, with two-thirds of Labour supporters wanting the bill cut, though Ipsos Mori finds growing concern about poverty.
Charities are generally unwilling to cut prices for benefits, even when things get grim.
So as with all things strange and new, the prevailing wisdom is that the risk of being left behind is far greater, and far grimmer, than the benefits of playing it safe.
While small, this research suggests that the willingness to challenge prevailing wisdom about a presumably grim condition may lead to benefit for at least some subjects.
Government grandees who started as freedom fighters, known as "historicals", have accrued financial benefits for themselves.Conversely, Mr Besigye's future looks grim.
Whatever the outcome, it seems, this will dampen already grim prospects for reform and politically benefit Republicans in the short run.
In fact, this ruined the street, turning it into a grim tunnel, and it brought no real benefit above.
BY now, you may have accepted, with grim reluctance, that you must delay taking your retirement benefits.
If you think in terms of wages, benefits and the creation of good jobs, the employment landscape is grim.
When the camera visits a government benefits office, it records a roomful of people waiting for hours under grim fluorescent lights.
