The Conservatives want to cut housing benefit to fund defence spending. But will it work?
Will cutting housing benefit to pay for defence spending work?
https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/conservatives-defence-spending-housing-benefit-lha/
https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/conservatives-defence-spending-housing-benefit-lha/
The Conservatives want to cut housing benefit to fund defence spending. But will it work?
6 Comments
Zombie@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 5d
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
azimir@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 5d
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?
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 5d
Do you know where you can have a free place to stay? The army! Or prison. Pick one, serf.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 4d
"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 · 7 pts · 5d
It will work if the objective is to make society worse while enriching the oligarchy and spreading chaos overseas, yes.
PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4d
Surely cutting conservative’s funding and tax allowances to spend on housing benefits would be a better idea?