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Job-linked benefit cuts would hit 200,000
Nearly 200,000 unemployed people will lose around £500 a year if cuts to housing benefit go ahead, union leaders warned today.
When even Boris Johnson has expressed disquiet over the proposals - then something is so clearly wrong it could be written in neon letters a mile high...
Boris fears housing benefit reforms
‘For many households the potential consequences of this are losing jobs to which they will not be able to commute, having to change their children’s schools and being cut off from their local social networks that are essential to successful communities.
‘The end result could be further polarisation between high and low income households in inner London and growing pressure on housing in outer London.’
Treasury minister Mark Hoban: Benefit cut? Then you'll just have to move house.
Is this an admission of social engineering? A plan of moving the poor out of the cities to... -where exactly? So they won't offend the eyes of the wealthy? and where are the poorest people in society going to find the money for deposits, and removal costs etc.?
Housing benefit cutbacks will cost thousands of Londoners £22 a week.
Crisis warns of homelessness over benefit cuts.
How are the Bank's profits and Banker's bonuses so far?
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