It really has led to some truly perverse outcomes. Namely an increase in the Housing Benefit bill as people downsize from cheap council houses to smaller, but far more expensive private sector rented flats. Wasn’t reducing the benefits bill the whole justification for this ludicrous policy in the first place? The more cynical might suggest that diverting more taxpayers money into the hands of the (tory voting) buy-to-letters, and re-inflating the housing market, was the actual aim.
But IDS is the most stubborn, pig-headed half-wit even amongst this shower of idiots. Absolutely refusing to countenance anything that clashes with his ideology, even when the mountainous evidence is staring him in the face. A complete moron!!!
I’m just wondering how many more billions he’ll spaff on his Universal Benefit charade before he has to admit its completely unworkable, and abandons the whole thing. Theres a certain inevitability about it, but once again his evangelical belief in ludicrous free-market ideology tells him thats what should work. Even though it doesn’t, and the whole programme is an ineptly managed shambles