Time to cut benefits?

[BrilloPad]

Fruit and veg farmers facing migrant labour shortages - BBC News

[Eirikur]

Or reverse Brexit, but yes cut benefits of Brits refusing to do this work after brexit

[SueEllen]

Nope.

People based in London or any other city no where near farms cannot go and do those jobs instead they can do retail, cleaning, care, hotel and security jobs. And in fact many do but they need their poor wages topped up by the in work benefits.

Oh and benefits are frozen until April 2020 so in real terms that is a cut.

I just hope you never get extremely ill for a long time and have to rely on benefits.

[The_Equalizer]

Nope.

People based in London or any other city no where near farms cannot go and do those jobs instead they can do retail, cleaning, care, hotel and security jobs. And in fact many do but they need their poor wages topped up by the in work benefits.

Oh and benefits are frozen until April 2020 so in real terms that is a cut.

I just hope you never get extremely ill for a long time and have to rely on benefits.

Or perhaps housing costs need to come down? I remember in the early 1990s when even on low pay you could by yourself a small flat above a shop.

[SueEllen]

Or perhaps housing costs need to come down? I remember in the early 1990s when even on low pay you could by yourself a small flat above a shop.

Cleaners don't earn enough to buy but they do if they do two or three jobs earn enough to rent without the state subsidising them.

[d000hg]

Benefits don't need to be cut, they need to be stringently yet compassionately applied.

[The_Equalizer]

Cleaners don't earn enough to buy but they do if they do two or three jobs earn enough to rent without the state subsidising them.

They did in the early 90s or weren't far off.

[SueEllen]

They did in the early 90s or weren't far off.

I had classmates whose parents were cleaners who they lived on council estates and rented. Then again this was in London where house prices are always higher.

BTW they let that slip by accident. Oddly no-one bullied them for it.

[SueEllen]

Benefits don't need to be cut, they need to be stringently yet compassionately applied.

You mean like sanctions if someone has a hospital appointment or needs to go to a funeral, and the job centre won't let them change their sign on day?

[northernladyuk]

Time for retrospectively defined tax evaders to be put to the land to dig for victory.