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I'm still churned up about this. It just makes no sense.
We are intentionally creating a stream of virtual refugees from one part of the country to another. 1000s of families being moved from this borough in the South to that borough in the North, and what about the families currently being displaced in the boroughs they are being shunted to? The housing in those areas is about to be put under terrible strain by the cuts they themselves are facing, they also have waiting lists and inadequate housing stock and now they're to absorb 1000's of families on top of that.
Families that have managed to get through breakdowns and divorces and settle in some way that allows their children to have both parents now face further disruption as dad can no longer keep a bed for them. Children currently settled in schools will face disruption to their education as theymove and settle into a new area and new school.
Local services will be expected topick up the tab but they do so in the middle of having their budgets cut by 20 and 30 %.
Meanwhile back to work programmes force unemployed youngsters to work for their benefits in private companies, who frankly should be fucking employing people to do that work. The theoretical 'training' doesn't materialise and Poundstretchers gets 150 hours of free worker at the tax payer's expense.
In work benefits, out of work benefits, wages stagnating, cuts to the left of us, cuts to the right of us, but the wealthy get tax breaks.
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