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Council house debate

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  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    wrightk wrote: »
    this forum brings out the absolute worst in people. because of a small minority who 'abuse' the system. suddenly everyone who lives in a council house is a layabout scumbag.......

    It is not a small minority.
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    Some people think immigrants in britain dont exist and dont get free furniture and its my lying eyes and ears making me see things that are not really there.

    Nah. I just think you talk cobblers.
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »
    Nah. I just think you talk cobblers.

    Is that cobblers the language im hearing on my estate because i have not got a clue what a lot of them are saying.
  • wrightk
    wrightk Posts: 975 Forumite
    i know a lot of people (probably just as many people as your council house stereotypes)that live in council houses who work hard for very little money in an expensive and not very well paid area who choose the council housing option for the security it provides their family and children.

    Its funny because noone moans about LHA. Ive never heard about 'scumbags who live in private rented houses and refuse to work'
    Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    Is that cobblers the language im hearing on my estate because i have not got a clue what a lot of them are saying.

    It's just cobblers, Jimmy.
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    wrightk wrote: »
    i know a lot of people (probably just as many people as your council house stereotypes)that live in council houses who work hard for very little money in an expensive and not very well paid area who choose the council housing option for the security it provides their family and children.

    Its funny because noone moans about LHA. Ive never heard about 'scumbags who live in private rented houses and refuse to work'

    Yes we have plenty of parasites in my area who are in private rents due to the fact that all the council houses have gone, i wonder what will happen to people who work for a living once even more houses end up as private rents and given to parasites.

    Do we just let the parasites keep breeding and keep housing them till there are no houses left for the working man to buy and live in.
  • wrightk
    wrightk Posts: 975 Forumite
    im a working man. i pay my tax. we will shortly be living in a council house. does that make me a parasite? no.
    Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    wrightk wrote: »
    im a working man. i pay my tax. we will shortly be living in a council house. does that make me a parasite? no.

    That is correct.
  • wrightk
    wrightk Posts: 975 Forumite
    so how do you define a 'parasite' then. someone who doesn't work at all? someone who works and claims some LHA, someone who has more than two children? or just anyone who lives in a council house
    Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    That is correct.

    And, according to you, impossible.
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