I have noted over the years the fact that pregnant young single women are provided with Council Houses,it is infact an incentive for some to become pregnant in order to obtain their own Council property. They should be re directed to their parents home and told that their family should take responsability for their situation. I have also noted over the years numerous people ,both on unemployment benefit and incapasity benefit attending auctions and buying vast quantities of goods which they then sell on at car boot sales.I doubt that they declare this income for tax,and it is amazing to see someone entering the sale room with a stick and leaving carrying numerous heavy boxes which theyt manage to load into their vehicles parked directly outside the salerooms because of their disabled badges. This whole Country gives little incentive to those prepared to work and help themselves.

Janet Green , Beaumaris, Anglesey

i hope ms flint is going to treat everyone the same like the one from other countrys how should not be here or do the british poeple not matter any more as it looks like we dont get any human rights

ale, ashford, kent

Let's bring back the Poor Law and workhouses.

David, London,

In some respects I agree with Louise. However, there is one thing I would do differently. The unemployed person who gets up off ther backside and finds voluntary work for themselves deserves to be rewarded for taking the inititiative for doins so, perhaps with some increase in their benefits, say an extra £10 or £20 per week on top of their existing benefit. However, that person will have to continue to demonstrate that they are looking for work.

For those too lazy to do this the state should, after a reasonable amount of time, step in and force that person to do some community work. There are plenty of streets and parks that need cleaning for example.

Caroline Flint's idea on the other hand would, as Michael
appears to suggest would increase increase crime as people with no money and no house would be forced to take desperate measures in order to survive. The idea is ridiculous, ill thought through and unworkable.

Luke Willen, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Merely another window - dressing pronouncement. None of our elected officials have the intention or spine to evict unemployed council tenants onto the street. Cripes-Almighty, they've just finished extending benefits to Muslims with four wives.

Rob, London,

Caroline Flint's website celebrates Labour's 100 years, 1906-2006 with the words EQUALITY SOCIAL JUSTICE PROSPERITY FOR ALL. She has a BA in American literature which means she read The Grapes of Wrath and the works of Jack London who wrote about the poor of this city before she was born, yet she seems to want to torture the people who have least in society, unemployed council tenants, many of whom have known despair for most of their lives. It appears that New Labour Ministers want to attack and humiliate the poor while giving themselves pay rises, and protecting the fat cats who expect to be made Peers in the ludicrous Honours List by putting their ill-gotten millions into the Party. The Flint-hearted Ms Flint heralds their downfall in the next election unless Geo. Brown throws the caber at some of them. Or uses the claymore to chop them down to size.
Pete, London

Pete, london, LONDON, england

Why place the responsibility on the housing provider? The government should stop handing out benefits to people who are perfectly capable of working. If you refuse to work, you are refused benefits, your housing benefit will stop, rent arrears will accrue and you will be evicted anyway. Make people work for their benefits too. A few hours a week on community work, sweeping the street outside your home etc., would suffice. Stop spongers claiming benefits!!

Louise, Manchester, UK

This is the problem with the UK benedit culture. It has been going on for so long that there will be howls of anguish when this sensible suggestion is brought into action.

Basically if you do not want to work you should get neither housing or benefits. So you produce children you cannot afford to get all the things other people work for.

Welcome to UK 2008

H Horse, Jersey,

What are the authorities going to do? Evict the family (probably with children) and issue them with cardboard boxes to sleep in. We don't even have enough park benches any more, since our social engineers have ensured that vandalism destroys amenities faster than they can be installed.

Mike Poulsen, Reading, Berkshire

A great idea, it would be a wonderfull system to give all those hard working Poles a home.

IAIN, MILTON KEYNES, bUCKS

Yet another barm-pot idea by this government. Are they planning on giving somebody who's unemployed a house, then evicting them because they can't find a job? The unemployed will be as stigmatised as drug dealers and nuisance neighbours, which is a bit unfair.

michael, manchester, england