Is this right?

Jimmy_31

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

I thought you didn't like scumbags getting free houses?

Clutching at straws now pal.

The house the scumbag got left saves taxpayers from having to house the scumbag.

How is this a bad thing.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

Clutching at straws now pal.

The house the scumbag got left saves taxpayers from having to house the scumbag.

How is this a bad thing.

Well, right now the wayward son would be a getting a free house that was paid for with the assistance of MIRAS, so it is subsidised housing partly funded by the taxpayer. Not as simple as you thought, this housing thing, is it?

Wee_Willy_Harris

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

I knew it was only a matter of time before the crime angle appeared:rotfl:

It is a fact of life, even if you prefer to ignore it. Shelter is a basic need and people will do anything to secure it and their own safety. That's instinct.

Jimmy_31

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

OK. You carry on listening to your friends, fool.

My friends told me that they were discouraged from putting their names down at the council.

You told me that this was wrong and this does not happen and we were liars.

I told you that there was video evidence of this happening.

I will carry on listening to my friends because it looks like they know what they are talking about.

Jimmy_31

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

It is a fact of life, even if you prefer to ignore it. Shelter is a basic need and people will do anything to secure it and their own safety. That's instinct.

Thats why we build jails, we will just have to build more of them and give out real sentences to discourage crime. eventually the majority will see that its far easier to just get a job and those that dont will stay in jail.

Graham_Devon

PasturesNew wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387036/Some-people-villa-Spain-Councils-set-hike-rents-wealthy-social-housing-tenants.html

"Some of these people have Villas in Spain"

Dunno where the mail found these people. They don't exist!

Jimmy_31

chewmylegoff wrote: »

So social housing should be a place that "hard working" people go to save for a deposit to buy a house?

How do you define hard working? Do they have to really try at work and get a letter from their employer saying "jimmy consistently puts 110% effort into everything he does?".

What if the person takes their foot off the gas and starts turning up to work half an hour late every day? Out on the street?

Twisty Twisty.

Jimmy_31

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Well, right now the wayward son would be a getting a free house that was paid for with the assistance of MIRAS, so it is subsidised housing partly funded by the taxpayer. Not as simple as you thought, this housing thing, is it?

The house has been left to them, most home owners outlive their mortgages

ukcarper

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

Are my new neighbours hard working people who eventually want a place of their own.

they might be but they could be workshy scum getting thier rent paid by you

Graham_Devon

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

But if they are under-occupying it, surely they are blocking the housing market for the next generation and should move to a smaller house. They might even free up some equity so that we can all save on some of their means tested benefits, like pension credits.

And yes, I did see the programme where the overcrowded family got priority due to overcrowding, the couple in the uninhabitable private rent got re-housed because their home was uninhabitable and the couple with the flat they couldn't afford found a cheaper private rent. But I noticed that none of the people featured got any priority because they were unemployed.

You do seem to have the very best pair of blinkers. Where did you buy them if you don't mind me asking, only it seems quality stuff.

You seem to be able to look past and simply ignore the reason WHY they were overcrowded.

You also seem to be able to ignore and look past what they did to help themselves to overcome their situation.

You only seem to be able to tunnel into the fact that they were overcrowded, and everything else seems to just pass you by.

Hopefully you will let me know the manufacturer of your blinkers, as hopefully they make other stuff, and I would be interested in procureing some of ths quality merchandise. It's difficult these days to find such quality goods.