Cameron proposes scrapping youth housing subsidies

[dipsydoodle]

(Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has proposed scrapping rent subsidies for Britons under age 25, in a newspaper interview on Sunday that may heighten tension with his Conservative Party's Liberal Democrat coalition partners.

Requiring almost 400,000 low-paid and unemployed young Britons to live with their parents if they cannot afford market rents could save just under 2 billion pounds a year, Cameron said in an interview with the Mail on Sunday.

Cameron's comments came as Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leader of more than 80 million Anglicans worldwide and a long-standing critic, accused him of "aspirational waffle designed to conceal a deeply damaging withdrawal of the state from its responsibilities to the most vulnerable".

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/06/23/uk-britain-cameron-idUKBRE85M0LU20120623

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. What's next?

Turning them over to the 456?

[bloomington-lib]

2. Won't the economy contract a little more?

That's a lot of people moving out of the neighborhoods/apartments, back in with their parents. Lost business in those neighborhoods along with lost business for the landlords. Not too mention, pissing off a lot of young people.

[dipsydoodle]

3. More likely to affect the ongoing situation

than the present situation i.e. get pregnant by all means but don't assume you won't still be living with your parents. I've used that example from experience with friends whose daughter did that to get her own house.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Which will of course make it even more difficult for people to 'get on their bikes' for jobs.

The government's policies seem to be to (a) increase unemployment in general, and cause ever-wider divides between different parts of the country; (b) demand that jobless young people should be prepared to move to wherever the work is; (c) make it impossible for them to afford to move, unless the prospective job is much higher-paid than is likely to be the case.

Although I am an atheist by belief, and a Jew by ethnicity, I think the Archbishop of Canterbury is absolutely right here, and saying what very much needs to be said!

[non sociopath skin]

5. The Eton Mess are clearly going all out for the youth vote.

The Skin

[dipsydoodle]

6. Assuming it does turn youth against them

what do you think the chances are that Labour would re-introduce it at a later date ?

[T_i_B]

8. I think all parties assume the young just don't vote at all

So they all go about shafting the young at every possible opportunity, putting even more people off voting.

When I attended a hustings meeting at the last general election it was very noticable that the audience was very elderly. I think there were only 2 people there under the age of 35. Hence politicians pander to the elderly.

The only issue the Tories may see with this policy is parents getting disgruntled that their adult children are unable to move out and live independent lives thanks to government policies.

[non sociopath skin]

9. At least as salient, I think, is the fact that it was targetted at the affluent South East.

IMHO The scenario of an independent Scotland leaving a Tory-dominated UK rump in which the primary industry is international tax-evasion and in which the Welsh and Northern English can go fuck themselves or emigrate is no longer the prerogative of the loony right.

The Skin

[non sociopath skin]

10. Not quite sure what you're asking here, DD.

The Skin

[dipsydoodle]

11. Labour will / have already criticise(d) this move

but will they commit to revoking / removing the the constraint of 25 when they are back in power.

[non sociopath skin]

13. Ok, now I get it.

The answer is I don't know.

The Skin

[dipsydoodle]

7. Regional rates of benefits considered by David Cameron

David Cameron is considering bringing in regional rates of benefits, as part of a "wider debate" about welfare.

No 10 says the prime minister wants to look at whether "it makes sense" to set benefits at a national level, given differing regional pay levels.

The news came ahead of a speech in Kent in which the PM is putting forward a range of possible welfare changes.

The ideas are expected to be ones for the next Tory manifesto, rather than for the current coalition government.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18575453