no pish mate, facts. there available if you look rather than believe what the politicians tell you. landlords jumped on the rent rebate band wagon, guaranteed payments, milked it for all it was worth, increased rents every year and reaped the benefits, whole portfolios built up on the back of housing benefit. then when the rules change, all their tenants become scrounger and druggies overnight, wages kept artificially low by the use of tax credits etc, the tax payer paying the tax payer, the employers love it the grey vote purchased by a back hander called the winter fuel allowance