INTERVIEWER Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 There's a surprise, the Usual confused Suspects up in arms about a distant threat to their Something For Nothing way of life. I await their coherent argument on why people with no job can be given free housing paid for by people with a job who can't get social housing or afford one of their own. This should be good. I await a coherent argument as to why you are using the unemployed as a smokescreen in order to attack the low paid working poor in receipt of housing benefit? For these economically productive people massively outnumber the economically inactive unemployed who claim housing benefit, and will be hit hard by the Tories new policy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INTERVIEWER Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Lets be under no illusions. This policy is mainly an attack upon the working poor. More money is needed for the EU, foreign wars and international development aid to corrupt, incompetent and even very rich countries. Cameron thinks that it is best to pretend that this policy is being aimed at the unemployed, when it isn't, so that the stupid can support it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Doesn't social housing allow people who have never worked but can breed to lead a life they could not possibly afford by working? Thanks for that Draco Malfoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 The housing benefit bill is so large because successive governments, both Tory and Labour, decided that it was better for the taxpayer to subsidise private landlords who charge excessively high rents than to impose rent caps. Make your mind up you have two posts slagging Cameron off for cutting housing benefits and now you are slagging the governments of for subsidising private landlords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 And now Disasterous Dave is trying to test the water with regional benefits http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18575453 Anyone noticed how he's trying to set people against each other, divide and conquer and all that rubbish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Make your mind up you have two posts slagging Cameron off for cutting housing benefits and now you are slagging the governments of for subsidising private landlords. There's a 3rd way, called building more council houses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Labour had 13 years to build more council houses. What was stopping them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Labour had 13 years to build more council houses. What was stopping them? Here we go round the mulberry bush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INTERVIEWER Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Make your mind up you have two posts slagging Cameron off for cutting housing benefits and now you are slagging the governments of for subsidising private landlords. Successive governments have been wrong not to impose rent caps on private landlords who made huge sums of cash out of the taxpayer. David Cameron is wrong to propose a policy which will hurt the working poor just as much as the feckless unemployed. My mind is perfectly made up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 There's a 3rd way, called building more council houses. The transition from dependency to independence is always going to be painful but it will be worth it in the end, we shouldn’t encourage dependency by building subsidised housing, we should be aiming to increase peoples ability for independence through work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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