Housing benefit caps to put 30,000 homes out of reach (wales)

PasturesNew

There'll be more houses to rent soon .... with less students around.

Shakethedisease

heathcote123 wrote: »

I'd hope so, would you work really hard in order to share an area with a bunch of layabouts?

What about the other 7 in 8 that are working ? Don't fall into the usual trap of thinking all those on HB are layabout scroungers. Some are just on low wages ( cleaners, retail workers, hospital auxillaries/porters etc ).

Presumably those in work will have the opportunity to move to better areas which are closer to their work,

On the contrary, a lot will have to move AWAY from their places of work. What about them, and more importantly, what will areas like Westminster do without them ? I wouldn't think commuting is an option for most on low wages. A fair few will be pensioners, disabled and carers too. Layabouts are they ?

Nor are they scroungers, as only one out of eight on housing benefit is unemployed. This is not just class-cleansing low earners out of high-rent Westminster, look at Wigan: its social housing organisation dreads this cut, expecting £4m rent arrears, causing evictions of cash-strapped tenants. "We'll have to cut repairs," says the chief executive, warning of a return to 1980s squalor,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/06/labour-roll-up-sleeves-demolish-howlers

chewmylegoff

Shakethedisease wrote: »

On the contrary, a lot will have to move AWAY from their places of work. What about them, and more importantly, what will areas like Westminster do without them ? I wouldn't think commuting is an option for most on low wages. A fair few will be pensioners, disabled and carers too. Layabouts are they ?

i imagine the employers will have to pay more money in order to attract staff to travel to the area to do the jobs, rather than rely on the government to subsidise the cost of employment. either that or relocate. so basically they will have to pay the actual cost of conducting their business.

i doubt paying huge amounts of money to subsidise people to live in london does the rest of the country much good.

Road_Hog

Generali wrote: »

Jacks.............?

I am Welsh, so I'm allowed to insult Welsh people.

People from Swansea are called Jacks. There is no 100% known reason for this (despite Wiki thinking there is) and it is only a guess why. The best known theory is the following though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_Jack

People from Llanelli are called Turks. Post number 3 by no.6 answers this.

http://www.scarletfever.org/forum/turks_topic9535.html

People from Newport, are called Clarts, from Clartsville. Substitute chav for clart and it is because Newport is a craphole and Goldie Looking Chain comes from there.

People from the 'Diff (Cardiff) or the valley surrounds are known as the most excellent people from Wales.