We can safely assume from the deafening silence of Coalition Minster’s today, that the Prime Minister has in the six months since the letter was written, talked his Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and most of the Cabinet around to the idea that up to 40,000 families losing the roof over their heads as well as the additional staffing and financial burden on Local Authorities caused by changes to Housing Benefit is a price worth paying for Labour’s mismanagement of the economy rather than a calculated attack on those who can’t fight back.
The Government’s big idea remains to slash and burn the welfare budget so that other department’s don’t have to cut as deep or hard, but as always with benefit changes there are big financial as well as human costs to factor in to these decisions that always end up costing Government’s money, something David Cameron is learning the hard way.
You’d like to think today's revelations and yesterday’s threat of legal action from disability charities will make the Prime Minister take more interest in the details of his welfare policy shake up, but judging from past experience I doubt we’ll see any change.Any source
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