Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

There are homes out there fit for occupation. Its just this bloody bedroom tax makes then less affordable.

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

Not enough houses vs too many immigrants. Take your choice.:rolleyes:

We can't keep concreting over the South East just to keep pace with the uncontrolled population growth.

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

We could do with not allowing non dom investors buying up housing stock at silly prices and refusing to rent it out..

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No! No! No! We clearly need hundreds of thousands more people turning up here every year just to ensure that we can run the NHS, staff our care homes, pay for our pensions, man all those car washes, etc. etc. In no way do/will any of them add to the problems they've so thoughtfully come here to solve by growing old, getting ill, needing schools/housing, receiving benefits, requiring pensions, emitting carbon... No, when the time comes and having given their best years to the UK and selflessly put a great deal more in than they've taken out, we can rest assured they'll all go back home thereby never becoming a burden on UK PLC themselves...
:rolleyes:

There clearly is a point beyond which population growth will stifle the UK so do we wait for the country to grind to a halt before we act to control immigration etc. or do we make the decisions whilst we can reasonably accommodate and support the needs of the population we have whilst maintaining our quality of life? Right now very few people seem willing to even accept the basic premise let alone try to get to grips with it before it's too late.

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

Immigration may contribute to housing but it's no where near as clear cut as that. They've even been blamed for falling house prices.

https://fullfact.org/factchecks/immi...e_prices-28673
http://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/top-ten/8-housing

We're getting to the point where irrespective of the story immigrations are the cause of it. Even contradictory problems.

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

When did rent levels determine whether somebody is eligible for Housing Benefit? It is income and savings that determine it.:rolleyes:

It is cases like a couple coming over here from the Czech Republic with their TWENTY TWO children(some adult) and grandchildren and more kids born since then, living in various houses and with only ONE person working, that ups the number of people claiming HB.

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

If you looked at it in the way that every house occupied by an immigrant means one less house which makes a homeless person.

not mentioning the costs accumulating to the immigrant progressively.

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Now come on, you know that never happens and even if it does it makes no difference... :D

Anyway, it doesn't matter where these people come from - whether via migration or birth rates, the argument that we must have continued and significant population growth to keep us going is as much nonsense on a national level as it is on a global level. If anything, the problem is too many people living too long.

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

We should offer incentives and a pill.

same with new borns.

and the inbetweens.

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

I don't understand. Why are the lefties moaning about the Tories giving housing benefit to more people? :confused:

Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
 

It was only the other week that some crap was floating on our NHS computers screen saver that only 1% of the British population are none white

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Just to make sure that NHS emloyees are PC'd to up the hilt :D

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That's the trouble with that kind of thing.
when you know it's a definately lie. you can safely assume that all and any future ones are lies too.

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:rofl: