Disgusted with the BBC's bias.

[cgksheff]

It isn't a BBC bias.

 

The term "crackdown" is being used, seemingly, across all news channels and papers.

 

While, in the actual article, I cannot see the word crackdown used referring to welfare, it was used in relation to tax issues.

 

I guess it comes from the Tory spinners and has been grabbed by all and sundry.

[Teddybare]

It's only kite-flying. If their private polls show it to be an unpopular measure then you can forget it.

 

It'll never wash. It would hurt the rich too much. Just another headline-grabbing, diversionary tactic by a desperate, embattled, failing coalition that should never have existed.

It's a pity the only viable alternative is a plasticine faced buffoon who doesn't know his backside from his elbow.

Also think they've forgotten that most politicians are private landlords. Just like he forgot most Tory millionaires don't pay any tax either when shaming jimmy carr.

Every avenue Cameron tries always ends with egg on his privileged, chinless face.

[Guest sibon]

So the answer is only to pay housing benefit to state registered social housing landlords?

 

No. It is to reduce the rate of HB. Control rents and allow people to rent a home/room at a rate which matches income.

 

It isn't difficult really. It is a system that worked fine until the mid 80s.

[Teddybare]

No. It is to reduce the rate of HB. Control rents and allow people to rent a home/room at a rate which matches income.

 

It isn't difficult really. It is a system that worked fine until the mid 80s.

 

Until Tory greed saw the loss of all the social housing?

[Guest sibon]

Until Tory greed saw the loss of all the social housing?

 

Private rents were controlled until the late 80s.

[SheffieldCCH]

No. It is to reduce the rate of HB. Control rents and allow people to rent a home/room at a rate which matches income.

 

It isn't difficult really. It is a system that worked fine until the mid 80s.

Wasn't that when the councils stopped building houses to let private/BTL landlords grab housing benfit for profit rather than reinvestment in social housing stock?

[Longcol]

To a certain extent though 'crackdown' does have connotations of being a control of some kind of wrong doing. For example you wouldn't call it a crackdown on cabbages unless cabbages were doing something wrong such as masquerading as brocolli.

 

Pure evil these cabbages I tell ya - next thing you know they'll be masquerading as lettuce and asparagus. No wonder the country etc etc.....................

[Happ Hazzard]

There was nothing stopping Labour from building masses of social housing during their 13 year reign of terror. But they chose not to, because they were relying on a property price boom in order to stay in power.

[Mecky]

So on the late BBC news tonight, the BBC refer to the Conservatives' plans to remove Housing Benefit for the Under 25's repeatedly as a 'Crackdown on Welfare'. You crackdown on Crime, you don't 'crackdown' on welfare. Welfare recipients are not criminals. Under 25's who have to rely on housing benefit are not criminals. The disabled and dying are not criminals. The Unemployed are not criminals. It seems like the BBC is slowly disappearing up its own hugely overpaid ass.

 

My god, you sound like a Sheffield United fan, it's all the Sheffield Star's fault ... etc.

[Mecky]

There was nothing stopping Labour from building masses of social housing during their 13 year reign of terror. But they chose not to, because they were relying on a property price boom in order to stay in power.

 

Wow look at all those houses which were constructed during the entire 1980s and most of the 1990s and look at all the construction during the last two years. And why is there a housing shortage in the first place?