It was about the only place I could find a decent story on it to be honest. The truth is a lot of people on housing benefit in some of London's more up market areas may be in trouble when the new laws come in. Legitamte claims or not £400/week isn't a going to cover lot in some London boroughs.
True story. My aunt rents out several house. One of her tenants was getting her rent paid for by the state. That tenant died but her adult children who were living with her concealed her death in order to continue getting free rent. My aunt got suspicious and finally called the police after she couldn't reach the tenant.
Decent story? Daily Mail? Doesn't add up I reckon. I've got a friend who's a social worker in housing. We talked about this; apparently the tabloid version of these instances is far removed from reality. I think you're right about what'll happen in London though; that could be quite a problem for a lot of people.
These parts of London will be ok, you can get a decent 3 bed house here for only £1100-£1200/month but once you start moving closer to the city the prices get mental. If you dont mind something smaller you can probably go down to £1000. I know someone who was paying £1300/month for a 2 bed flat with no garden in Balham, here that would be about £750/month but having no tube station helps keep prices down..
So we never help bail out country's when they have problems or disasters? We helped loan money to Ireland when they went bankrupt, and now giving hundreds of millions of pounds to India, as well as helping other country's who have had problems or natural disasters. Obviously helping out needy countries is fine, but charity starts at home and we have our own problems and debt. I wasn't talking about Immigrants about helping out other countries. They are coming over hear to help themselves to our benefits when it was created for the English, not other mugs from other country's to sponge off us. This is the same for jobs,(Except Doctors and the like) we have so many unemployed in this country, and if we didn't allow such a large percentage in this country of immigrants they our own citizens would not have to be on benefits. Only for family's with kids. The more kids the more money. Single people who get job seekers only get £106 every two weeks which is not a lot to live on, even with housing benefits. And you wonder why this shit winds me the fuck up. When I lost my last flat, my job ended for the season and I was skint. The council did fuck all and did not care about me being homeless and moneyless. I spent two months sleeping in my Gran's garage. You cannot understand how cold I was during December with that bloody snow. They did not care about this either. Then pricks like this from other country's get these luxury life's in the country I was born and bred and where me and my family have paid taxes since it started. But they will do everything in their power to help foreigners and immigrants and nothing for the rest of us. I am not racist, it is just shit like that which makes me this way towards this countries situation. I even lost one of my old jobs because of a foreigner to a foreigner .
That is bullshit approximately 100% of the time. First world nations, USA included, have a history of using financial "gifts" to control policy in the 3rd world. Whatever you are donating to India, will come with a back channel deal or economic contracts to make it back 10 fold. It's all for show. And a loan to Ireland by definition is a for-profit arrangement.