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Don't cut my benefits BBC 1
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The Lib Dems must be very proud.
( and I'm a lib dem)
( and I'm a lib dem)
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Well overdue.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1955125
The common denominator seemed to be having more children than they could afford to support. I have sympathy for those with a single child from a failed relationship a father who has done a runner but those with 5, 7 or 9 kids really only have themselves to blame.
I would love to see an interviewer make that point!
I didn't see it, but I saw the trailer where someone was told that they cannot afford to live in London. Seems fair enough to me.
I can't afford to live in London, so I don't.
1 in 4 households in london claim housing benefit, http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CFwQqQIwBg&url=http%3A%2F%2Flondonist.com%2F2014%2F04%2Fone-in-four-london-households-on-housing-benefit.php&ei=6AxHU6GuJqPA7AbdmIHQDg&usg=AFQjCNGCzZnGygYpfsMXehagxLVIMJ9QRA&bvm=bv.64507335,d.ZGU&cad=rja
Up to 80% of housing benefit claimants in some London boroughs are working. You can't just move the low paid out of London and pretend it wont have knock on consequences for the whole city economy. A viable city needs people at all scales of the income and job scale.
It would be interesting to know how many homes have been bought under the right to buy scheme and how many homes have been built to replace those homes, add this to the increased population+ more foreigners moving into this country, no wonder rents have shot through the roof. am sure every Londoner would love to pay less rent so i don't see how it's their fault, the fault lays with previous governments, they not only allowed this situation to develop their policies fuelled the massive rent rises.
What about the upheaval this is having on everyone else ? People paying to live in Luton and Birmingham and then having tihis ungrateful lot put in the house next door .
Some of these people should keep their legs closed .
But surely doing that would rebalance the economy as it would force the people who hold the power to deal with the housing crisis.
If you are born in London then you are free to move away. It's not a prison camp are there is life outside the M25.
1 in 4 households in london are claiming HB, that is One in four, or about 843,000, London households currently receive housing benefit to help them pay their rent, says a new London Assembly report. but that is 843,000, households not people so the number of people to rehouse would be a a lot more than that
Yes we know you said so in reply #7 and gave a link then
Perhaps the BBC have realised the tories will screw them over anyway regardless of if their coverage pleases them so has finally started to get its backbone back?
And of course the reality of mass immigration having a knock on affect was always something governments found easier not to face up to. Even now they'd rather blame it on foreign cash buyers.
But not enough jobs.
That's been happening for at least 150 years. All my great grandparents were born in London and I can trace their families' movements from the centre out over generations. My mother's maiden name lived in Soho in the early 19th century, my surname Bethnal Green in the mid 19th, both can be traced moving further and further out.
Yes it is good that people should now be aware how few such people there are given that the benefits cap will save around 0.05% of the welfare bill in 2013/14 according to government figures. Hopefully this will stop the ignorant comments from some prejudiced individuals who inaccurately try to exaggerate an issue that needs to be dealt with but one that it also relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
But should tax money from else where in the UK be siphoned to London simply to subsidise low paid jobs? Surely if companies want cleaners, security staff, admin clerks they should pay a rate that will attract them. If that means paying cleaners £25 an hour then that's what they should do, not expect taxpayers elsewhere in the country to effectively subsidise their low staffing costs.