Cuts to Housing Benefit for under 25's.

[revhope]

On the BBC website theres a report that the ConDems are planning further attacks on workers by cutting housing benefit to under 25's. All done in the name of fairness. How long will it be before workers say enough is enough and start a serious fightback free from the reformist leaderships?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Well, right now I think any sort of fightback, reformist or not, would be welcomed, just in terms of stopping the rut and decline in the standard of living for working class Britons.

But yeah, it's pretty dire when you can't even organise a proper set of co-ordinated economic strikes, let alone about actually building a proper working class political movement.

[Ocean Seal]

Well, right now I think any sort of fightback, reformist or not, would be welcomed, just in terms of stopping the rut and decline in the standard of living for working class Britons.

But yeah, it's pretty dire when you can't even organise a proper set of co-ordinated economic strikes, let alone about actually building a proper working class political movement.
This. I personally believe that there is no revolutionary strategy aside from waging revolution and stopping counter-revolution, but that there are correct reformist responses that the revolutionary left should keep in mind in order to advance the proletariat to seizing workers power.

[brigadista]

not just under 25s - there is now a local housing allowance in each area so if your rent is above the local housing allowance it wont be covered by HB and you will have to find the rest from the remainder of your benefit -

Legal aid is going so those faced with eviction due to rent arrears will probably be evicted in the coming year as legal representation will be limited....


and cuts in social services budgets mean there will be no help there - :(

[brigadista]

And now there is this - cuts to benefits for the unemployed having more than 3 children..... apologies for posting a link to the tory express...

Despicable-

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/328701/Curbs-to-stop-spongers-having-more-children-

[revhope]

Seems like the Tories with Labour in their wake are trying to participate in that time honoured straegy of divide and rule. By turning or attemting to turn one section of workers against the other they are trying to keep the real reason of why the austerity cuts are taking place. Which is the failure of the capitalist system to ensure a decent standard of living from those who it exploits.

[Mather]

Most of these attacks against the working class and poor are hitting the young particularly hard. Before the global economic crisis started back in 2007, young people were already under pressure from rising levels of income and social inequality. A process that has been getting worse over the last thirty years.

If this keeps up, Britain can expect more rioting and civil unrest in the near future.

[RebelDog]

And now there is this - cuts to benefits for the unemployed having more than 3 children..... apologies for posting a link to the tory express...

Despicable-

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/328701/Curbs-to-stop-spongers-having-more-children-

Are these people for real? Do these arseholes not understand that reproduction is a throbbing biological urge as natural as anything in the unverse?

[Hit The North]

Most of these attacks against the working class and poor are hitting the young particularly hard. Before the global economic crisis started back in 2007, young people were already under pressure from rising levels of income and social inequality. A process that has been getting worse over the last thirty years.

If this keeps up, Britain can expect more rioting and civil unrest in the near future.

Well, I fucking hope so because this race to the bottom and narrowing of the horizon of what we can expect under capitalism is too much.

The ConDem's focus on the so-called 'something for nothing culture' is just a smokescreen for hiding the rising numbers of working poor. In his speech, Cameron compared two hypothetical cases: 1) An 18 year old who signs on and can move out of home and claim housing benefit; and 2) an 18 year old who has gained college qualifications, works a job earning £18,000 a year and cannot afford to move out and live independently. He says it is simply unfair on the latter case.

Of course, he's right. But what is really unfair is that someone can earn £18,000 and still not afford to live alone because property prices are well out of the reach of millions and greedy scumbag landlords are allowed to inflate their rent with no controls imposed on them at all.

Fucking over the unemployed is not going to help the low-paid in the slightest. In fact, because it is a race to the bottom, it is going to make low-pay more likely and more entrenched. Which, I guess, is the subtext of the policy.

All this on top of systemic youth unemployment, the abolition of the EMA, the tripling in university fees, and the flat-lining of social mobility rates, and I wonder how young people in the UK get up in the morning.

So, yeah, I hope there are more riots this summer. Fuck this Tory government!