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‘Trying to out-Reform Reform’: Readers slam Tories’ social housing ‘eviction’ plan (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Armand1@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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It seems wildly racist for the conservatives to say "Not enough social housing? Just evict people we view as lesser".

It's nakedly an attempt to pit the poor against each other instead of actually fixing the issue.

It's victim blaming pure-and-simple. Not only that, but it's coming from the abuser. The Tories CAUSED this crisis, and now they're blaming those suffering from it.

This is not a full article, but the readers comments really dunk on this nonsense and I like it.

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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just hypothetically, because obviously this wont be happening, but where would they go?

"Could free up to 230,000 homes". That'll be about a million people including children suddenly with no home. Thats going to help how?

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Andy Burnham: "I want to try to end rough sleeping"

The Tories: "Did you hear that? Labour wants to end homelessness so we need to the opposite! Let's vow to make 230,000 MORE households homeless"

This is the fucking world we live in