should there be council housing/ HA in London

the_ash_and_the_oak

Jonbvn wrote: »

Is this today's official strawman thread, or will there be another one later?

there's another 6 on the front page right now imo

Harry_Powell

The_White_Horse wrote: »

but once in the EU, surely they will be able to move freely?

If we had harmonisation of benefits across the EU then there would be little point, financially, for them to move. If large numbers continued to move to certain cities, then you could put a 5 year limit where they only receive benefits in the host country, not anywhere else in the EU.

Once they become fully naturalaised EU citizens, and have leanred the laguage and culture of the hist country, it's less likely that they will move elsewhere anyway.

lostinrates

Harry_Powell wrote: »

If we had harmonisation of benefits across the EU then there would be little point, financially, for them to move. If large numbers continued to move to certain cities, then you could put a 5 year limit where they only receive benefits in the host country, not anywhere else in the EU.

Once they become fully naturalaised EU citizens, and have leanred the laguage and culture of the hist country, it's less likely that they will move elsewhere anyway.

There might not be financially but their might be socially, or for maximising future possibilties. e.g. maximising English skills might be more advantageous than soe other EU langauges if one is to progress on return to one's own country for promoting oneself as valuable to an employer with international business. (or perhaps more importnatly the perception could be that.)

The_White_Horse

i think we should have a national pot of benefits -say 1bn a year and that is it. doesn't matter how many claimants there are, they just get less of a percent.

It may be quite good if they all start to kill each other, like the Highlander, so there is only one left, collecting 1bn all to himself.

Thats entertainment.

Harry_Powell

Harry_Powell wrote: »

Once they become fully naturalaised EU citizens, and have leanred the laguage and culture of the hist country, it's less likely that they will move elsewhere anyway.

Bloody hell, I've just re-read this. Either I need to learn the language of my host country (England) or lay off the sauce in the morning! :rotfl:

inspector_monkfish

The_White_Horse wrote: »

i think we should have a national pot of benefits -say 1bn a year and that is it. doesn't matter how many claimants there are, they just get less of a percent.

It may be quite good if they all start to kill each other, like the Highlander, so there is only one left, collecting 1bn all to himself.

Thats entertainment.

Channel 4 will gladly show it.

Bonia77

Do you think it's possible to have a thread without immigration isseus? :cool:

It seems that all threads slowly dritf to complaining about this.

Are there really that many Daily Mail readers on MSE????

lostinrates

Bonia77 wrote: »

Do you think it's possible to have a thread without immigration isseus? :cool:

It seems that all threads slowly dritf to complaining about this.

Are there really that many Daily Mail readers on MSE????

No, not all do. By any means....as gross a generalisation at the other. We managed to have a thread (deleted) yesterday about whether or not ny rude men would ''do'' a particulr celebrity without immgration being raised once! (that I recall anyway)

the_ash_and_the_oak

You are lucky it is the Mail and not the Express or you would be reading threads about Diana and miracle cancer drugs

inspector_monkfish

A NEW report into the trauma of travelling by tube has revealed that London is awash with whining ponces.

The study, commissioned by the London Assembly, found that commuters get a bit tearful when it's all busy and would like £900bn to be spent on ensuring a brand new and completely empty train arrives 14 times a second.

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Engineer Roy Hobbs said: "Tube trains are small so they can fit into the tunnels. If you make the trains bigger than the tunnels, it probably won't work.

"We could make the tunnels bigger but then all the buildings would collapse into big holes in the ground. But of course that would make the trains quieter as there would be no buildings for people to go to work in."

He added: "Shall we give that a try? You f*cking idiots."



http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/london-awash-with-ponces-200912012269/