No, Stubbs, can't you read. It's obviously an article about why cutting benefits is a good thing.
As an aside, the picture that article paints of people heading to Blackpool when the bottom falls out of their life because it's a place with which they associate happy memories, only to get stuck in some horrible converted guesthouse, is intensely depressing.
So why are Blackpool proposing to slash HB rates and provide liveable accomodation, funded by development cash, rather than regulate the cowboys out of town?
Quote from: Sloper on February 10, 2015, 05:35:33 pmSo why are Blackpool proposing to slash HB rates and provide liveable accomodation, funded by development cash, rather than regulate the cowboys out of town?It's a novel way to fix the problem. Maybe they've chosen to fix the problem this way because it brings investment and development into the area AND puts the shysters out of business rather than just trying to regulate the bad guys which may be legislatively difficult, resource-intensive and futile if a freshly dispatched landlord is quickly replaced by one just as bad.The thing that concerns me most is that the people affected appear to be very vulnerable and on the face of it this looks like a mass eviction - putting these 'problem people' somewhere out of sight. That would be the cynical way to look at the measures.Oh shit now I've been hooked