David Cameron suggests cutting housing benefit for under-25s

[Doggy Styles]

BBC News - David Cameron suggests cutting housing benefit for under-25s

Good. Let's hope he can get it past all the hand-wringers.

[pacharan]

Good. Let's hope he can get it past all the hand-wringers.

Well let's wait for Mich's contribution on Monday

[escapeUK]

Good. Let's hope he can get it past all the hand-wringers.

Very unlikely. In fact I predict another u-turn.

What should have happened a long time ago, is a dormitory like system for those who really needed somewhere to stay. With extra lessons on child care, and or employment skills, with onsite crèche for those who then get work. All women in the dormitory system get free compulsory contraception implants to prevent any other happy accidents.

If done well this could have been great, a responsible system where people protected but never a system that someone would purposely want to enter for a cushy life.

[Doggy Styles]

You're right AtW, my post was a bit harsh. I'm sorry.

[Old Greg]

Very unlikely. In fact I predict another u-turn.

What should have happened a long time ago, is a dormitory like system for those who really needed somewhere to stay. With extra lessons on child care, and or employment skills, with onsite crèche for those who then get work. All women in the dormitory system get free compulsory contraception implants to prevent any other happy accidents.

If done well this could have been great, a responsible system where people protected but never a system that someone would purposely want to enter for a cushy life.

Maybe a work house or Magdalene laundry? Should we extend it to recipients of corporate warfare? Maybe board members of bailed out banks could stay in the dormitories too. They would not purposely want to enter this for a cushy life.

[DodgyAgent]

BBC News - David Cameron suggests cutting housing benefit for under-25s

Oh Lordy. Who voted this clown in again?



The worrying thing is we have a Prime Minister who actually thinks in this simplistic, knee-jerk Daily Mail fashion.

Quite,

Much better to pay people to do nothing than it is to force them to integrate with society and get a job

[DodgyAgent]

There are also care kids, people medically discharged from the army*, and juvenile offenders who families definitely won't support them.

The first and the last group are often one and the same.

In regards to the girls unless they fall into those groups they should be left at home.



I doubt you home is a top-floor one bedroom flat in a drug infested estate in Battersea where people regularly p*ss and sh*t in the lift.

Or a mouldy and damp draughty flat where the landlord refuses to do any maintenance because you are "benefit scrum" who will just wreck it.

You need to have more than one or two kids to get a nice place.

*Though to be fair the only ones I've met haven't been that injured so worked.

This diatribe of nonsense is built on the premise that somehow not working is good for someone.

[Old Greg]

This diatribe of nonsense is built on the premise that somehow not working is good for someone.

Can we have an economic system that can provide jobs for everyone capable of work, because or finance based economy can't? Then we can hammer the workshy together.

[doodab]

This diatribe of nonsense is built on the premise that somehow not working is good for someone.

Anyone who has ever tried to cook sunday lunch with a 5 year old helping will know that in some cases someone being paid not to work it best for everyone involved.

Society needs to stop creating losers and the way to do this is to create good quality jobs for people rather than offering them the choice between two kinds of soul destroying poverty.

[Scoobos]

He should have done it 2 years ago - right now he (and the country) needs some proper pro-growth policies, best with tax cuts

I think he needs those Tax Cuts to get re-elected; with the same old Tory tax cut dirty election trick that they always use.