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Is a phone contract a luxury? Owning a smartphone allows you to both 1) look for a job, and 2) use the Universal Credit portal.
Both of those things are absolutely essential if you want to claim UC because well, they made it mandatory to claim online, so...yah.
Tory gonna Tory I guess. I won't lie, I do enjoy watching them shoot themselves in the foot as often as they do.
A £30 contract is not needed to have a phone to browse the Internet.
There is some element of Vimes boots here. People cannot afford a new smartphone outright even though that is cheaper long-term, so have to take an option that gives a phone ..phones these days are designed to break after 18months as "updates" grind them down
That theory is a bit lost when someone doesn't need the latest smartphone to begin with. Even if they were to break after 18 months, which they aren't and the market is certainly moving towards devices lasting longer, its easy to pick up a decent mid range or flagship for half that price monthly or comparable second hand.