As a candidate I found him uninspiring and directionless. Sure Brown wasn't the opposite but no, not David Cameron for Prime Minister!
Look where it's got us now.
He's reducing benefits, forcing the unemployed to work even if they don't get paid through volunteering, he's kicking people out of prime London property by reducing housing benefit and forcing families to relocate and he's getting rid of the quangos.
I love Prime Minister Cameron and Tories have my vote in the next general election.
This country has been built on layers of support that are a disincentive to
a) work
b) support one's own standard of living
I am completely behind the initiative to aggregate all benefits under one single payment which more severely penalises individuals who either do not look for work or do not accept work they are offered. Taxpayers should also not be paying for people to live in central london locations when they themselves slog into work every day on long commutes because they themselves can't afford to live in those homes.
Any individual of able body and mind of a working age needs to get up every morning and do something useful with themselves whether or not they enjoy it. Quite simply and literally, beggars can't be choosers.
We all have to do things in life we don't want. Hell, I don't really want to have to pay tax, but I do. So someone out of work who doesn't get the job they want, needs to get on with a job they get offered but one that they may not enjoy. Even if they don't get paid for it - they need to get on and pay their dues or I, as a tax payer, refuse to pay for them.
The other day, a debate on Radio 4 had an MP passionately describing the plight of one of the members of his constituency who had lived in the same house with his wife for 30 odd years. They had brought up their kids there, all their friends lived there and that was their home. The home we the taxpayers had paid for. This appeal was supposed to generate an emotional reaction whereby we all wipe a tear from our eye and prevent this couple from the likely eventuality of relocating and having to make new friends because once the cruel coalition government cuts their housing benefit, they can't live there (in Kensington, I think) any more.
To that I say, they should be grateful for the 30 yrs that their lives had been subsidised for and now consider it their duty to support the country in its time of need by adapting their lives to more suitable standards. Its not an unusual story for working people to lose or move jobs and have to adapt their living standards (house, or car or shopping frequency) appropriately. So well, why not them?
And so I hail, Cameron and the coalition for doing what Britain has needed desperately. An overhaul. It's ballsy, it's tough, it doesn't help them make friends in the short term but it's the right thing to do and I'm glad they are doing it, even if it means I now need to eat my words and agree that Cameron ain't so bad after all!
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