"Housing benefit, probably easily the largest element of payments to recipients (many of whom are in work anyway), goes straight into the pockets of landlords"

Housing benefit does not get paid directly to the landlords, it would solve one hell of a lot of problems if it was.

Shimrod still trotting out the left-wing rhetoric of a bankrupt and disproven political ideology that is tired, worn out, cliched and well past it's "sell by date".