Part of the problem being, of course, that in order to match their benefits,
The rent of a house that size and the council tax it would invoke, the medical bills, and the free dentistry, etc, they would have to get jobs of about £25k plus, and that doesn't include the babysitter's fees for while they're working.

£25k jobs tend to demand some form of technical expertise and experience.

Which they don't have.

So it ain't gonna happen.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:05, 2 replies)

'xactly.
I don't understand why a council house tenant is entitled to one bedroom per child. Most of us in my class at primary school shared bedrooms with our siblings, it was seen as a bit posh to have your own bedroom before you were about ten.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:14, closed)

Definitely this.

( Bob Todd whee, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:15, closed)

I think it's something to do with the massive overcrowding that epitomised the slums in the early 20th C.
and that, after a certain age (I think - may be wrong) - 14 or something - girls particularly are legally entitled to their own room. I think this is to provide an area in which they can start generating more babies, in order to then get a house of their own.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:23, closed)

Yes
there needs to be some kind of incentive to get out of the trough. Unfortunately a job is less an incentive as a deterrent which undoubtedly means the entire system is fundamentally shitted up.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 28 May 2010, 16:06, closed)

hmmm
unless they present the incentive in a , FUCKING GET A JOB OR WE EXTERMINATE YOU kind of way, or a less drastic approach would be to, make sure that the money that is claimed is a lot lower than they would recieve working for a living. Hazzar, a solution
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 28 May 2010, 17:11, closed)

Or make it hard to stay unemployed (or unemployable)
I like Bob Todd's second post about the Scandiwegian system. A lot.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 28 May 2010, 17:41, closed)

SKANDEEWEEJ
I like it.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 28 May 2010, 19:43, closed)