No progress at PMQ's

The Labour party is now so far from principle that even when faced with their own policy, they oppose it, says Cameron in a memorable line from today's PMQ's.

He went on to quote from the Labour manifesto - written by one Ed Miliband just a few short months ago - on proposed changes to housing benefit. It showed that Labour themselves wanted changes - including a cap - so that the unfairness of poorer people paying through their taxes for housing benefits on property they could only dream of was rightly stopped.

Progressive? Fair? Social Justice? Once again Ed Miliband finds himself on the wrong side of the argument.

Boris, cleansing & fairness

I find it unbelievable that Boris Johnson chooses the words 'Balkan' and 'cleansing' to describe capping housing benefits at nearly £21,000 per year. No doubt he has his reasons. And will soon be apologising. Again.

This is not about singling out low income and welfare dependent people - it's just about treating them exactly the same as everyone else explains Alex Morton in an blog for the Spectator. Worth reading.

Labour's social cleansing

Ed Miliband asks what an estimated 80,000 housing benefit recipients will do when their rent payments are capped at £20,000 pa in Prime Ministers Questions as if they will be left homeless.

Furthermore, Labour MP Chris Bryant described it as 'social cleansing' in an effort to compare it with Balkan attrocities which ended in the massacre of thousands of ethnic Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Polly Toynbee - in the same context - has talked of a Tory 'final solution' to welfare.

No Mr Miliband. Capping something at £20,000 means exactly that. Not leaving them with nothing. Or murdering them.

The question you need to be asking is how many of these families are unable to live on £20,000 per year in housing benefit?