The Conservatives want to cut housing benefit to fund defence spending. But will it work?

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    So more people end up unhomed. They can’t find work because having a safe place to rest and have hygiene resources is key to holding down a job. So… Now you have less tax revenue, and more burden on the state via policing instead of paying for housing support in the first place.

    When will the oligarchs admit that we’re just cattle to them?

      • rmuk@feddit.uk
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        17 days ago

        “Are there no prisons? …And the union workhouses, are they still in operation?”

        I love it when century-old stories include lines like this to remind us that these people have always existed.

  • FluidBeef@quokk.au
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    17 days ago

    It will work if the objective is to make society worse while enriching the oligarchy and spreading chaos overseas, yes.

  • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    Surely cutting conservative’s funding and tax allowances to spend on housing benefits would be a better idea?