We must fight to end this HYPOCRISY!!!

Register your support at,  https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/campaign-to-repeal-the-welfare-reform-act

REMIND the government that it was elected to REPRESENT and SERVE the WILL of the PEOPLE!!!


It is the MPs (who are paid £65kpa), and government ministers (who receive up to double that amount, or more!) and who USE and ABUSE the parliamentary expenses system to rent London flats they do not need (either because they already own or are buying accommodation in London which they are letting, or because they live within easy commuting distance of Westminster), who have decreed the nation can no longer afford to house the jobless and low-income families.

They claim Britain needs to reduce its Housing Benefit bill. So it does! But many charitable organizations, such as 'SHELTER', dispute and question whether the WRA will actually achieve this. In fact, it may well INCREASE the HB bill as hundreds of thousands are compelled to surrender their hitherto lifetime security of tenure and vacate their low-rent social housing to occupy smaller, but nevertheless considerably more expensive, privately rented, short-term accommodation.

  • This increased demand upon the privately-rented sector will outstrip its capacity to supply and will inevitably lead to an increase in rents as landlords cash-in on this bonanza!!!

  • Many will find themselves thrown deeper into poverty and, ultimately, may even find themselves homeless and destitute!!!

Messrs. Cameron, Clegg & Co., and their Cabinet, cohorts & cronies claim Britain has insufficient social housing stock to meet demand. This is true! The simple solution, of course, is to build more! But the nation cannot afford this either because this government lacks the creativity, initiative and vision to rekindle, reignite and revive the economy!

Instead, they have chosen to penalize, persecute and punish the poor, the low-paid, the jobless, and their CHILDREN for their (the Government's) incompetency!!!

The vast majority of job-seekers want employment and would work IF there were jobs available!!!

Consider this...

Official Figures

Employed

Unemployed

Workforce

Mid-2004

28.2 million

1.4 million

29.6 million

End-2012

29.7 million

2.5 million

32.2 million

8yr INCREASE

+1.5 million

+1.1 million

+2.6 million

  • There are 1.5 million MORE people in work today than just 8 years ago

  • There are 100,000 MORE people in work today than the size of the total 2004 workforce

BUT . . .

The UK's workforce is growing FASTER than the economy and its ability to create jobs!!!

FURTHERMORE . . .

It is the GOVERNMENT'S POLICIES that are GROWING the workforce and STRANGLING the economy!!!

The simple reality is...

One CANNOT squeeze a GALLON into a 7 pint POT!!!

There is only one reason why more than 8% of Britain's workforce is jobless... and it is because the economy can only provide and sustain employment for 90% of the workforce; and, of these, part-time workers are now at a record high, and will soon find that they too will be driven deeper into poverty as the WRA bites huge chunks out of their Tax Credits and Housing & Council Tax Benefits!!!

Moreover, employers will shortly be finding it increasingly harder to recruit low-paid &/or part-time workers! Why...? ...Because the WRA will further remove the in-work benefits and subsidies that make it possible for people to take these low-paid jobs. In other words, the WRA will inevitably INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT!!!

So... because this inept, incompetent, and ill-conceived coalition government is incapable of devising initiatives, measures and strategies that will actually stimulate and generate economic growth – and thereby create real jobs to reduce unemployment – it has chosen instead to penalize, punish and persecute the victims of the global economic meltdown further by blaming the jobless for being unable to find and secure NON-EXISTENT jobs, and the low-paid, poor and vulnerable for Britain's burgeoning welfare budget!!!

There is a BETTER WAY...

Go to ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL to read A SUMMARY of, or to open &/or download, my alternative...

PROPOSAL to RATIONALIZE, REFORM & RESTRUCTURE the TAX & BENEFITS' SYSTEMS