The Budget

"limiting social tenants' entitlement to housing in appropriate-sized accommodation."

• sounds fine to me
  
  

Yes, provided they have a sensible understanding of what an "appropriate" size is.

£40k is a lot of money.. why should they be getting any benefits?

dunno about this actually. It sounds like a lot of money, but that's per household, not per person. Let's say you live in London with your partner/spouse and 2 (or more) kids, and you're both earning 20 grand.

I earn more than that and have no dependents, and just about get by with a little bit of money left over. If i had even one kid on the wage i'm on now, i'd struggle to make ends meet, especially if my kid had to go to nursery or needed any other childcare. And what if a family had a child with serious disabilities?

"The Health in Pregnancy Grant is to be abolished from April next year, and the Sure Start maternity grant is to be limited to the first-born child. Lone parents will also be expected to return to work once their youngest child goes to school."

• fine by me, don't breed if you can't afford it, might stop some 'benefit babies'
  
  

Um, rape victims, accidental pregnancies... loads of people get pregnant when they don't really want to. Also lots of people find out they're pregnant too late to have an abortion.

Also on Sure Start - a major element of Sure Start involved social programmes to stop parents from breeding more than they could afford to, supporting parents to be better educated on basic household skills like finances, healthy eating, family planning etc. Sure Start was a really, really important programme that they really should have kept if they were genuinely serious about supporting young (often socially excluded and poorly educated) parents into work and off benefits.