Almost a year into the new welfare reforms and already thousands of social housing tenants are in serious arrears. Many more have been evicted because of the ‘Bedroom Tax’.

Now housing associations such as Weavervale Housing Trust question whether these ill advised schemes are to blame for people not moving into three and two-bedroom homes.

This policy was supposed to free houses up for families but all it has done is leave them empty or privately rented out by cash strapped housing associations.

We already see 350,000 people fed byf ood banks and struggle with pay day loan sharks. The next thing will be courts backed up with eviction cases because of rent arrears and mass homelessness.

Homelessness will be the problem of our councils who promise ‘ No second night on the streets’. The damage the government is doing to whole communities is devastating and inhuman.

The likes of Iain Duncan Smith crow in Parliament about benefits scroungers and the C4 documentary Benefits Street. He is basing his policies on such programming.

But he does NOT talk to real people who suffer because of his policies. He only mocks the starving and those on the verge of homelessness.

He is like a school bully picking on the disabled kid, the poor kid and the kid from a single parent background.

But the Conservatives and their Lib Dem counterparts have made sure the welfare state, the NHS and the legal aid system is on its knees.

It won’t be long before none exist at all. It won’t be long before the middle mlasses will bemoan in the Daily Mail about all the beggars and tramps on the streets. They will have many a rant on the spread of diseases such as TB and cholera. We already have people going to hospital malnourished and with rickets!

How long before Gove declares the poor should not be entitled to education at all and our children are sent out to work as well as our old folks.

The only surprise I feel is that none of these millionaire MPs has a shred of humanity or shame.