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  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    why buy when you can live rent free if you retire with nothing saved.

    because you can't
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    What is the matter with people?!

    Some of them don't HAVE to move to tower blocks. They OWN other properties!!!!

    I really do not get how some can back up such an insane system. But back it up they do. I simply cannot grasp it.

    What on earth is wrong with just looking at peoples assets and finances, and then deciding whether they should actually use their own assets like the rest of us, instead of the states, and getting taxpayer money for the "inconvinience".

    I do give up though. Some obviously cannot see the injustice, and thats that.
    Get real!

    How many people - SH tenants - do you honestly think own other properties?!
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    So should we simply ignore the fact that there ARE some who have enough wealth?

    Maybe we should do that for benefits too?

    Unfortunately when they signed up for a council house they weren’t in that position and when they did they were giving a life term contract. The government are bringing in rules to stop it happening in the future.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    sjaypink wrote: »
    Get real!

    How many people - SH tenants - do you honestly think own other properties?!

    Should we ignore the ones who do?
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Unfortunately when they signed up for a council house they weren’t in that position and when they did they were giving a life term contract. The government are bringing in rules to stop it happening in the future.


    Yes thats the bit we dont like, houses for life.
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    So should we simply ignore the fact that there ARE some who have enough wealth?

    Maybe we should do that for benefits too?
    Already do. Plenty of benefits/concessions are not means/ capital tested
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    Yes thats the bit we dont like, houses for life.

    And yet that is exactly what YOU want.
  • DexterA
    DexterA Posts: 166 Forumite
    edited 13 May 2011 at 11:52PM
    sjaypink wrote: »
    Do I know you?!

    (I've just got better at faking)

    Yes, I've been around the block more times than a car racing Le Mans.
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Unfortunately when they signed up for a council house they weren’t in that position and when they did they were giving a life term contract. The government are bringing in rules to stop it happening in the future.

    No they are not.
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »
    And yet that is exactly what YOU want.

    If everybody in britain is given a house for life thats fine, if only certain people get a house for life then thats not.
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