Your statement that you feel that I wouldn't enjoy such a debate indicates to me that you may be making an uninformed assumption about me. One that is most likely wrong but provides further evidence of the state of political discourse today. It is rarely based on facts but more usually on assumptions, misinformation, dogma, and ad hominem attacks.
Like the would-be shadow Deputy Prime Minister using the term 'Tory Scum' then expecting Tory voters (including former life-long Labour Voters who switched at the last election), to vote Labour in the General Election. (You can take the girl out of the gutter, but you can't always take the gutter out of the girl. Not an ad hominem attack - just a response to one that she uttered).
Ad hominem attacks are pretty much endemic among politicians of all political hues. In terms of courtesy and good manners, (not effectiveness), one of the few I can bring to mind in recent times is Theresa May.
A rather novel news headline today - Labour's new 'number one mission'. Quote:
"Sir Kier Starmer has issued a direct appeal to middle class voters and declared that the Labour Party's number one mission is wealth creation".
That's quite a turn of events - ordinarily, they're obsessed with wealth distribution, based on the view that the middle class are the 'undeserving rich', from whom money should be taken and given to the deserving less well off'. I'd aver to suggest that many - if not most of the 'middle class' (whatever that means today) - started out as aspirational working class, and through endeavour, hard work, ambition, and sometimes good fortune, have climbed up the greasy pole.
The benefits system is supposed to be a safety net to catch people when they fall, but it's hard to get the balance right. Too often, the 'safety net' becomes a spider's web' leading to a life of welfare dependency, on, or just above, the poverty line. I'm not suggesting we revert to the Workhouse system, in which people were separated into the 'deserving poor' and the 'undeserving poor'. The assumption was that if anyone applied to enter the workhouse, they evidently lacked the motivation to pick themselves up out of poverty, and were hence, the 'undeserving poor'.
I walked past a food bank run by a church a few days ago. It opens at 11.30am. A queue had formed. Those in the queue looked to be in the 20 - 40 age range. Many were obese, had tattoos, and were fiddling with mobile phones. Some were still in pyjamas and slippers. (Average costs of tattoos in the UK: Small £60 - £150; Medium £150 - £300; Large £350 - £700). I'd rather be me than them, and I try not to be judgemental, but I have to say it does make me a tad cynical. Some may argue that nowadays a PAYG mobile phone isn't a luxury, but tattoos. Really?
Maybe a bit more emphasis on 'Workfare' rather than 'Welfare' would be no bad thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workfare
Not much will change.