"They said they'd fix welfare, but the welfare bill had gone up, not down.
Mr. Edwards wrote: "When we set about fixing welfare in the 1990s, we said we were going to encourage work.
It comes just three weeks after the TaxPayers' Alliance published Work for the Dole: A proposal to fix welfare dependency, which called for mandatory participation in community work and training in return for the continued payment of benefits payments.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "Bringing the bloated Housing Benefit bill under control is a key part of our long term pan to fix welfare.
But fixing child welfare could be government at its best, and most difficult.
Fixing the welfare system, which costs too much, but upon which many vulnerable lives depend, is a task requiring dexterity, subtlety, and the sort of insight that distinguishes the possible from the desirable.
However, relying upon this goodwill and other organisations to pick up the pieces should not be seen by the government as a substitute to fixing a welfare system that is driving many young people into hardship rather than employment".
"Rather than saying how Labour would cut the deficit or fix the welfare system, Ed Miliband called for a damaging tax rise on business that would cost jobs and confirmed that Labour would spend more and borrow more," he said.
"Conservatives want to do more to fix the welfare system so that it works for the hard-working people who pay for it".
"So it would still be the same old Labour Party with Ed Miliband too weak to take the difficult decisions needed to cut the deficit or fix the welfare system.
