Nov 192010
David Cameron claimed yesterday that “Social unrest would have been likely if housing benefit payments had not been slashed”.
Oh yes. people were going to be out on the streets saying with demands such as “make people homeless” were they?
I doubt it. Very much.
The man’s living in cloud cuckoo land.
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I think Dave’s version of “social unrest” may involve people putting their teacups down indignantly in the silence between the news and The Archers. I suspect there is a lot of such unrest in country houses across the home counties.
you are probably right that no one was likely to go out demading that people should be made homeless, but then Cameron is not suggesting that either. But there is undoubtedly political capital in tackling the inequities in the ridiculously complex welfare system we have. And in any case “social unrest” is hardly describing riots on the streets!
@alastair
it was untrue then, wasn’t it?
From reading the article a more accurate quote from Dave would have been “social unrest may occur when we walk down the street stoking resentment….”
Divisiveness yet again from the Tories.