[BITList] QT: Why should people get £500 a week on welfare? (18Apr13) .

[Malcolm]

Hugh & Colin,

 

It seems that we three are socialists together. I have never voted for the
Conservative Party in my life. All the men in my family worked in ships or
the docks or the shipyard the rest were miners. If you read my first email
it starts (A few weeks ago BBC showed a program saying that there are lots
of people in London getting more than £500 a week in benefits) it is the
people in London who get lots of state money to pay their expensive rents.
The government wants to move all of them to districts that are cheaper
rents. The TV program interviewed 4 different people who got far more than
£500 a week but a lot went to the Landlord. As a socialist I think that is a
reasonable thing to do.

 

Malcolm. 

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Subject: Re: [BITList]QT: Why should people get £500 a week on welfare?
(18Apr13) .

 

Hugh,

 

A few weeks ago BBC showed a program saying that there are lots of people in
London getting more than £500 a week in benefits. They interviewed a black
woman who had a 10 year old daughter but no husband and she received some
£850s a week. She was moaning that if she was capped at £500 she would have
to move to a cheaper house further out of London and she would not be near
her friends, also her daughter would have to change her school and lose her
friends. She did not have a job. To buy a house in that district was an
astronomical figure. That is why the man asked the question “Why should folk
get £500 a week when he worked nearly 40 hours a week for £450”  Naturally
the three members of the three parties waffled through there answers trying
to please everybody.

 

Malcolm.

 

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