I doubt anybody would complain about looking after the poorest in society but Im sure you could find lots that were asking for tax evasion schemes for the rich to be closed off and people who were profiting massively during the boom years to be taxed more to pay for those increases in Welfare.
Tax Evasion schemes?
Those tax schemes were where all the money to pay for all those benefits was coming from. There might have been calls to put a halt to the rising cost of land but at the same time, there were calls to scrap stamp duty. There were complaints the Government weren't doing enough to get first time buyers onto the 'property ladder'. Every party and most people inside and outside this country bought into the latter lazy years of the Celtic Tiger when we thought we could just give ourselves huge increases in standard of living and pay for it by selling houses to each other. FF have many many faults but when history looks back at this time, they won't be the only people facing inditement.