Housing benefit capping.
Posted: 03 Jan 2012, 11:25
I watched the news on TV yesterday, and there was an interview with a european immigrant gentleman who had brought his wife and many children to our nice benevolent country in search of a better life.
Sadly, he can't find any work. So he has to claim jobseekers allowance. Family allowance. Plus God knows how many other allowances. How hard that must be for him. He struggles along in a five bedroomed house, admittedly fitted with every modern appliance known to man. Plus a few others unknown to me.
As if his plight isn't bad enough, it's going to get a lot worse. This Conservative Government has decided that too much money is being paid in housing benefits to these poor unfortunates, and many others like them. Shock horror! How could they?
Westminster Council will no longer pay the paltry sum of £2,000 a week for his rent, and he will no longer be able to live in central London. He will no longer be able to support his family in the way to which they have become accustomed. They will have to lower their standard of living to that of the average British family who work and pay taxes. How demeaning for them.
I have to stop typing. I can't see the screen through my tears.
Sadly, he can't find any work. So he has to claim jobseekers allowance. Family allowance. Plus God knows how many other allowances. How hard that must be for him. He struggles along in a five bedroomed house, admittedly fitted with every modern appliance known to man. Plus a few others unknown to me.
As if his plight isn't bad enough, it's going to get a lot worse. This Conservative Government has decided that too much money is being paid in housing benefits to these poor unfortunates, and many others like them. Shock horror! How could they?
Westminster Council will no longer pay the paltry sum of £2,000 a week for his rent, and he will no longer be able to live in central London. He will no longer be able to support his family in the way to which they have become accustomed. They will have to lower their standard of living to that of the average British family who work and pay taxes. How demeaning for them.
I have to stop typing. I can't see the screen through my tears.