Jessica Spiers
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Comment on: Government to propose £60,000 ‘pay to stay’ limit
Also, much bigger divide north/south again, how old are all these tenants, if the aim is to sell off the housing are their many youngsters or all these well off tenants passed mortgage age?
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Comment on: Government to propose £60,000 ‘pay to stay’ limit
So we assume that when they lose their job or retire on much reduced income the rent would go down then would it?
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Comment on: St Paul’s protestors invite rough sleepers to squat
ivan hardman, I hardly think 20 to 25 sounds a likely figure do you? There are 67 in the protestors camp alone......sorry not clear....do these people want to live on the street? If not...they cannot sleep rough, or squat and ho hostels or homes so therefore.............duh? Are we proposing shanty towns in the Home Counties?
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Comment on: Government urged to rethink bedroom tax
This is clearly a mechanism for forcing people out of their homes. As usual it is the stick rather than carrot approach, I think we need to consider carefully the consequences in terms of well being of individuals who have invested considerably in their homes, who have lived most of their lives in a property, it could be quite devastating if a satisfactory alternative is not available but they cannot afford to remain in their HOME. Certainly offer incentives, I know a neighbour who made the choice consciously herself to give her 3 bed up for a 2 bed flat and that home is now housing a larger family. However I think it is quite wrong to just force people who are emotionally attached to their homes, who have invested so much in it. It is easy to look at figures on a bit of paper and shuffle people around but it is not actually solving the problem satisfactorily, and not addressing the underlying problem and although alleviating the suffering of some, will simply cause more misery to others so it is not actually a solution.
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Comment on: Baroness attack on families branded 'nonsense'
In 2009, the UK government's chief scientific advisor,
Professor John Beddington, warned that growing
populations, falling energy reserves and food shortages
would create a "perfect storm" by 2030. Beddington
claimed that food reserves were at a fifty-year low, and that
the world would require 50% more energy, food and water
by 2030.
According to a 2009 report by the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the world
will have to produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed a
projected extra 2.3 billion people.[119]
It is predicted that the landmark total of 70million – a figure
the immigration minister in the last Labour government
said would never be allowed – will be reached in the
middle of 2027.
Although slightly off topic, add housing and other supports into the mix and obviously there is a conversation to be had.....If we are to regulate benefits in this way then it needs to be made well clear in advance. Penalising children of the families already here won't help, it is a question of what measures would be sensible to put in place for the future so that things don't become untenable.
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