I think they want to remove the minimum wage. The cunningness of this, if it is a deliberate ploy, is that they get to have poor people lobbying for the minimum wage to be reduced.
For a few days I was thinking that removing housing benefit from able bodied young people with hospitable parents in areas of the country with a decent job market was relatively low down my list of evils compared to reducing disability benefits, or putting up VAT or reducing winter fuel payments, or spending a lot of money invading places but the practical difficulties of the policy are pretty hard to get over.
To the point where either the policy is unworkable or you have to accept that it will result in large scale injustice, law-breaking and homelessness.
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Date: 2012-06-26 12:34 pm (UTC)For a few days I was thinking that removing housing benefit from able bodied young people with hospitable parents in areas of the country with a decent job market was relatively low down my list of evils compared to reducing disability benefits, or putting up VAT or reducing winter fuel payments, or spending a lot of money invading places but the practical difficulties of the policy are pretty hard to get over.
To the point where either the policy is unworkable or you have to accept that it will result in large scale injustice, law-breaking and homelessness.