UK PM’s welfare crackdown attacked

Meacher attacked the government’s controversial welfare proposals for stoking up an “explosion on the streets,” saying, “The Tories are like an occupying army laying waste to the foundations which will continue until they are stopped in their tracks.”

In an interview with The Mail on June 24, Cameron said that the new plan was to transform a welfare system which discourages people “from working.”

Moreover, the Independent reported that in an upcoming speech on welfare, Cameron is to announce measures such as abolishing most of the £1.8 billion in housing benefits paid to 380,000 under the age of 25 and forcing a hard core of unemployed to do community work after two years or lose all their benefits.

Meanwhile, Matt Harrison, Interim chief executive of the umbrella body for 500 homelessness charities, Homeless Link, said, “If we remove Housing Benefit without a credible alternative, we risk damaging the life chances of thousands of young people and storing up problems for society in the long-run.”

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