Benefits cap rant the next...

Do you support the benefit cap?


The local housing allowance cap is already making children homeless, and the cap will make no discernible difference to your tax bill or the country's finances. Shaving a few million off the welfare bill sounds good in principle but it is billions that matter here and the problems being created have their own cost issues.


Perhaps you imagine that it is all about 'work shy scroungers with 8 kids living in Mansions in Pall Mall off tax-payers-money'


Well...31 per cent of families affected by the various proposed welfare reforms will be families with two children or less. 


Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea are the big news, where 35,000 homes are cut off from those who need a bit of help to make ends meet, but I know people being pushed out of my local areas of Wandsworth and Battersea too. It is the same across many areas of London.


People cannot just move to a cheaper nearby area. Newham is going to be facing twice as many claimants as there are affordable options and in Croydon, 17,000 people will be chasing 10,000 properties.


So all benefit claimants will have to move to....?


Margate? Hastings? Possibly.


Wherever it is, then it will quickly be a poverty stricken ghetto with no opportunities, because the huddled masses have arrived.


It isn't going to be any less awful outside the South East either.


Birmingham - 34,500 housing benefit claimants will be chasing 23,000 low-cost houses, Liverpool - 21,000 people collecting local housing allowance chasing 12,000 homes.


So the poor are being pushed out of the cities into ghettoes, where they can be ignored, and look forward to lives of violent criminality.


Or death.


You know those cases where someone with a 'learning disability' is abused and murdered by 'violent chavs'? Those are going to rise to a level where they get even less media coverage than they do now because they aren't exactly sexy news compared to a photo of someone from TOWIE carrying a shopping bag.


The government isn't making a moral standpoint about 'scroungers', it is engaged in social engineering on a massive scale and children and the disabled are the main victims.


It IS unacceptable and it IS that simple.