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Originally Posted by Traduk
I think that it is only too easy to view the upcoming changes and implications with a blinkered view based on how it affects us as individuals. So far the changes mean little to me as I have never relied in any way on government handouts but I truly fear for the general implications to others because if masses of people are affected the impact of their anger will control everybody's quality of life.
Apart from the almost certain hundreds of thousands that will lose jobs in the public sector it looks like the cap on the social safety net will disrupt potentially hundreds of thousands more (nationwide).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...tion-movements
The stress creating social implications could easily be eventually coming to a place near you and I. The misery endured by my generation through the 70's and early 80's look like nothing compared with the outcome of the coalition plans.
There is no doom and gloom predictions on my part but straightforward cause and consequence. It is not possible to withdraw the financial lifeblood from what may turn out to be millions of people without backlash and at times it could get ugly. |
A nice Guardian article, however surely if all these people are being forced out of areas of
high housing demand won't others take their place? After all if there is such high demand for housing in these areas there will be people queuing up to live there, say like those who are presently priced out by high housing benefit and living in the suburbs.
Private landlords are full of it. They know exactly what they are doing, charging as much rent as the councils will pay, and they know that they can't get away with it they either lower the rents or their properties are vacant, they'll have to charge legitimate market rates rather than using the local authority housing benefit caps as a price list.
I get the point but think it should be queried how fair it is for those who are presently priced out of these high demand areas to be paying the rent of some of those living there. They are, in effect, paying taxes to price themselves out of some areas.
I hope that once this market distorting effect is gone the population movements will balance out. Here's hoping.