tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263577133333272085.post5808295836830647092..comments2024-03-28T11:04:16.315+00:00Comments on Boffy's Blog: Rough Sleeping Could Stop TomorrowBoffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263577133333272085.post-65506177450364303852018-04-09T22:38:20.908+01:002018-04-09T22:38:20.908+01:00«There is no reason whatsoever for rough sleeping ...«<i>There is no reason whatsoever for rough sleeping not to end tomorrow</i>»<br /><br /><br />Ahem, but how that boost house prices in the south and thus maintain or increase the number of tory voters?<br />The assumption is that ending rough sleeping is something that most voters, in particular those in marginal seats, care about. Some of my usual quotes, the first from Nick Clegg:<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/02/nick-clegg-george-osborne-cut-welfare-poorest-boost-tory-popularity><br />«Welfare for Osborne was just a bottomless pit of savings, and it didn’t really matter what the human consequences were, because focus groups had shown that the voters they wanted to appeal to were very anti-welfare, and therefore there was almost no limit to those anti-welfare prejudices»<br /><br />And the second from Ian Duncan-Smith when he resigned as DWP secretary of state because he found the "damn the poor" attitude of the Conservative government too callous:<br /><br />https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12199805/IDS-sparks-rift-at-heart-of-Tory-party.html<br />«He said he resigned because he lost the ability to influence where the cuts will fall, adding: “The truth is yes, we need to get the deficit down, but we need to make sure we widen the scope of where we look to get that deficit down and not just narrow it down on working age benefits ... otherwise it just looks like we see this as a pot of money that it doesn’t matter because they don’t vote for us, and that’s my concern. I think it [the Government] is in danger of drifting in a direction that divides society rather than unites it. And that I think is unfair.”»Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com