Just watching the local news - covering a social centre that will be closing due to costs and lamenting the effects on pensioners. When interviewed I noted 2 were wearing Apple watches and a table littered with expensive phones. This was in York - not all pensioners are poor and I wondered how many of the £300 payments bought or upgraded Apple watches last year? Targeting is good its the level and possible taper that counts.
If you know York you will know that it has had an influx of homeless amongst whom are a lot of ex-forces - in July I watched a homeless guy in a Para's beret ( I know it could be just something he wears ) get up off a cardboard bed in the street around the corner of Betty's Tea Rooms neat HMV get up and take a shit in the doorway of the airBnB where he was asleep only to be disturbed by the people staying there trying to access it. I know people will disagree with me but rather than Hazel in Haxby getting £300 for heating rather than getting that poor twat off the streets and regaining some dignity
The government is promising to make it easier for people who served in the armed forces to access social housing.
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