If people are allowed to work they can pay taxes and pay rent to private landlords. There are labour shortages in a lot of areas. All TVs have been flat screen for the last 20 years. The other stuff will be at best outliers because of a backlog of claim processing and lack of appropriate housing.

He's not going to suddenly get more popular, even when some of the seeds sown start to grow. He's taken very bad advice and he's taken the party in a stupid, damaging direction. However nice he may be personally, you have to topple him for the good of the country.

The only other exception I can think of is if they currently house anyone who can afford to pay for their own. That will be a tiny number to jeeringly tell people they're excluding. It seems to be mainly a cruelty-signalling exercise.

Those of us growing up in the era of leaded petrol may have had our intelligence dulled the equivalent of 6 IQ points.