Dossing the streets

[Hobbit]

Are you suggesting we don't have a welfare system in this country. We pay a very large amount of money in Welfare to make life more comfortable for people on low wages or unemployed, why do you think people from around the world want to come to the UK to live, many countries give next to nothing to people out of work.

I do question the comments made that run down our country as being uncaring to people going through hard times, I would suggest it's better now than it's ever been.

I'd very much question if things have been better than they've ever been. Whilst I believe Labour created a benefit culture that undoubtedly led to a number of people choosing benefits before work, and attracted some people from around the world, that isn't the case now. I feel the Tories have taken it too far the other way.

Young person's housing benefits slashed... great idea if the private landlords had cut rents.
Support for mortgage payments drastically cut.
Disabled work schemes completely disbanded.
Working tax credit thresholds reduced.

And then;

Pension ages rising to 68, and who knows where they'll go above that.
Silver surfers working way beyond when they used to.
A massive increase in foodbanks, and the benefits offices directing people there as part of the formal process in the first few weeks of a failing benefits system to provide a speedy response.
Foodbanks now also dishing out gas and electric cards for card meters.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Are you suggesting we don't have a welfare system in this country. We pay a very large amount of money in Welfare to make life more comfortable for people on low wages or unemployed, why do you think people from around the world want to come to the UK to live, many countries give next to nothing to people out of work.

I do question the comments made that run down our country as being uncaring to people going through hard times, I would suggest it's better now than it's ever been.

....and there is the royal 'We' again.

Do you not understand that because of low wages/zero contracts that many people in work do not contribute to the welfare system.
With the Chancellors projected 'Poundland/cheapskate' UK economy it will only get a lot worse.

 

[IanM]

Great majority of people in UK have no savings given the cost of living against wages and are only 1 or 2 pay packets away from destitution should they lose their job, perhaps some of the people on the streets are victims of this?
Life is tough for so many, all you can do is try your best and hope family can assist if you fall on hard times but it's not easy, never was but seems harder than ever nowadays. Social security doesn't seem to work like it once did.

....sadly all true. Many factors involved in this too

 

[Tashyboy]

Why does any of this come as a suprise to anyone. I and many others have worked and retired through successive governments that have sold off national assets that belonged to the nation because they were costing the taxpayer a few quid. It was forgotten that people worked, and people paid taxes and people provided for the less fortunate. We were sold the dream that privatisation was the promised land that some on here craved and supported, and still do. So now just about everything is sold off and what have we got.
Homelessness.
NHS on its knees.
forces numbers being cut.
Police numbers cut.
Education in a mess.
All services having funding cut year after year.
uncontolled immigration that some say are not stretching already stretched services.
Yet folk are Suprised we have numbers of homelessness.
Yet folk are Suprised we voted for Brexit.
and Jeremy Corbyn is the man who is gonna save us.

Its gonna get even tougher.