If defending the Ukraine from Russian aggression means the UK spending more on defence, would you be willing to consider losing the money from the UK's social support spend?

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Do you think the UK, and EU, should confront Putin and Russian aggression at the cost of spending the same on domestic social services? Defence v social spends, in a nutshell?

I wasn't saying it was wrong to take money from welfare budgets. Or not quite.

The point is that having moral principles doesn't mean owt unless it costs you something. If your principles don't ever cause you additional expense, work or inconvenience, or force you to choose between difficult options then they're probably not principles: they're just an outfit.

Where should the axe fall? Which pot do we raid? It's being debated on other threads. Posters are suggesting commandeering holiday/second homes, and others are pointing out that they will already have paid bookings. While I am perfectly happy about requisitioning any Belgravia mansions owned by Russian friends of Boris, this isn't going to house our share of 2 million refugees. I do have a satisfactory spare room going since DS went to uni with an ensuite and its own front door, and I'm pretty chilled about people generally so I would participate in hosting a refugee plus child (though not for the £350) but from what I am reading the rural SW is not where the hosts are needed as little work, poor public transport and not much in the way of an East European community. Selfishly, I wouldn't want a crunch on pensions because my mum gets by with some pension credit assistance. Equally selfishly, I'd rather host a professional woman with young children and a smattering of English than an ancient babushka. I could be grandma or great aunt to the former, but not a friend to the latter.

I'm not saying the £350 isn't enough, but that I could afford not to take it.

No we have enough people struggling as it is, whats with all the hand-wringing? we happily sat back and watched Yemen getting bombed with bombs we sold.

@Theunamedcat

So hit the vulnerable again?

You do realise that disabled people have already been hit by the removal of the warm front scheme from people who receive DLA? right so CHILDREN cannot be kept warm this winter?

Get a rich mate to pay boris I think richi has a bit spare

When is this change please? I've not heard about this, do you have a link as I can't find anything about this?