The biggest irony is the company I work for did more to encourage home ownership amongst those normally disenfranchised (a true Thatcher ideology). Yet the latest Tory babies have taken away the support these people need to stay in their own homes by reducing mortgage interest relief and assuming a shared ownership mortgage is a 100% mortgage regardless of the amount of share.
Oh & I live in an ex council house bought by the previous tenants.
Yes we should look after those who need our help and support and ensure they have the best quality of life possible. However we cannot as a country afford blanket care for all. Genuine need should be the overweening factor. Not simply lack of work or churning out child after child.
The problems have become worse because those who have no other issue except lack of work are taking from the benefit pot to the detriment of those who really cannot work. Sadly this government like others before them try to clamp down and use too crude a system to weed out the fakers.