I think this is fair enough – the housing benefit system has descended into a complete farce if there’s even a shred of truth in these articles:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/7846978/Budget-2010-Afghan-family-receives-150000-per-year-in-housing-benefits.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188075/Jobless-mother-seven-insists-family-deserve-1-25MILLION-taxpayer-funded-home-trashed.html

Trekster – the public sector doesn’t comprise of companies, so I don’t think this mad / interesting idea would apply in any case.

No one has thought about the clinicians so far in this thread. As some have pointed out, premature babies can survive from 21 weeks or so now – so we are asking clinicians to sustain life at that age and also to take life knowing it could be sustained. For anyone being asked to do that on a routine basis that is a pretty big ask – I’m not sure I could do it and perhaps some consideration in the current debate should be given to those in the NHS that we make these requests of?

It’s a shame we have to put up with hamza and his family – hamza himself has cost us the best part of £3m in benefits and legal costs and the rest of his family aren’t much better with the sons in prison for £1m car crime, other sons having been investigated for incitement offences and then there’s still the house he owned and rented out on the side whilst claiming housing benefit.