I don't have ingrained prejudices except against stupidity.
You are guessing about the causes of homelessness but at the same time supporting the 330k plus people arriving here every year who people like you claim are enriching the country.
The evidence, as you offer it, suggests the opposite.

The fact is that the only people benefiting from immigration are those who are already well off.

You want to blame the Tories no doubt but homelessness is a much more complex issue than just being about poverty.
Many people put themselves in that situation for various reasons.

Most homelessness, in the sense of how we think of it is more down to mental health than anything else....drugs, alcohol or other manifestations of mental weaknesses, which we all have to varying degrees of course, but are mental weaknesses regardless if they require outside intervention.

How much it is the responsibility of the tax payer (and that's what the government directs) to be responsible for an individual's weaknesses in mental health is a debatable question......I'm not saying these people don't need help but it's a question as too whose responsibility it is....different situations, different possible answers.

So to me this line of attack is very lazy and questionable.

However, people who lose their homes via various means...that may have been from policy on regulations and things like that... and become homeless that way.....I think that's a far fairer mode of attack.

Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Dec 2018 12.55pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Apart from a partial agreement with the last sentence I didn't agree with any of the rest of it.

Since when is the UN a credible voice on political ideology?

I haven't heard why the tax payer is responsible for general misfortune.....Most tax payers aren't particularly well off and many of them struggle themselves. The use of the tax payer must be directed effectively not thrown about like a hopeful panacea.

Taxing the most wealthy significant levels does not bring in more revenue, that's been a busted argument for some time.

All it does is lose investment.....Didn't the socialists in France prove this yet again?

Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Dec 2018 1.29pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Yes, well of course it's always the mother's fault when some feckless tosser decides he doesn't want to feed his children after all, isn't it?

The uselessness of the Child Support Agency and its successors is legendary.

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The Ferret
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Western Europe is being destroyed by NEETS AND NINJAS.

Not in Employment, Education or Training.

and

No Income No Job or Assets.

NEET's and NINJAs's are whats wrong with society today.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

I'd agree with some of these complaints (education has been damaged by both its professionals and government) and I'd agree that they are all concerns that come under governmental remit.....but not exclusively.

However, the expectations of how well we can expect these indicators of well being to be however....that may be a different question.....Are expectations being reasonable for what the taxpayer can realistically solve? I don't think so.

Where is that dividing line between what is reasonable for people to expect from the government and what isn't? People become over reliant and expect problems to be solved by others....when it's debatable.

Where is that dividing line on how much help is reasonable if it is given?

I often think that much of this becomes lost in a 'lets blame the government' kind of mist.

Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Dec 2018 2.18pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)