Yellow jacket freedom fighters spreading to London

ukcarper

AG47 wrote: »

It will help the housing crisis. Not nessasarily London.

This is what the yellow vest protest in the UK is all about.

The majority are unhappy about high housing costs, and not enough houses are being built every year

But housing crisis does not apply to who country and building house were there is no demand won't help.

zagfles

AG47 wrote: »

It will help the housing crisis. Not nessasarily London.

This is what the yellow vest protest in the UK is all about.

The majority are unhappy about high housing costs, and not enough houses are being built every year

:rotfl:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-betrayal-march-tommy-robinson-ukip-france-yellow-vests-met-police-gilets-jaunes-a8673821.html

Arklight

Sapphire wrote: »

:rotfl: :T Thanks for the laughs.

For your information, far from being from 'the privileged middle classes', my parents and grandparents were given political asylum in this country. They'd lost everything material, as well as members of their families. They started off in tiny flats, where several children were packed into tiny rooms (bunk beds and ones that opened out), with no central heating or even hot water. Any child benefit was tiny, and my mother did piece work at home sticking stones in jewellery late into the night. Added to this was the PTSD that my parents suffered from, which wasn't even recognised by the medical profession – such a condition affects all the people close to the sufferers.

For myself, I didn't go to university initially, left school at 17 and happily did many different low-paid jobs until I hit upon one that I was really interested in and developed into a career. Later on I did do a degree, but I paid for it myself.

And when did I say that I 'believe poor people should move out to make way for the rich'? I merely gave my own example of how I coped with lack of affordability in London. To quote: 'Best to see if you can better yourself, then move back to London when you can afford it, as I did (first of all buying just a bedsitter in an inexpensive area).'

It's never a good idea to make presumptions about people, or to try to attribute words to them that they did not utter.

Unless you're planning on writing a best selling autobiography and sharing the proceeds, none of this has any relevance to him. It isn't the 1950s, and for your information (as it appears to have passed you by) many people fought very hard then to ensure that low and medium income people did have access to adequate council housing.

Successive governments since Thatcher offering get rich quick schemes to voters who happened to be around at the right time have decimated the state's housing stock. Now have the absurd situation where people who work and produce things have to provide most of their income to landlords and banks who produce and do nothing.

There is no earthly reason why people like you should begrudge affordable housing to people other than that you like living like some kind of lord of the manor in yours, looking down on the undeserving who have to rent. Which says quite a bit more about you than it does about them.

AG47

The yellow vests movement has spread to several countries. Spain, Portugal were some of the first to stand in solidarity with the French yellow vest freedom fighters.

Canada and now Sweden soon followed. Starting in France on 17 November, protests of the anti-globalist movement have been seen in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Now yellow vest demonstrations against the UN Migration Agreement have been announced in Sweden on Saturday and Sunday.

Sapphire

Arklight wrote: »

There is no earthly reason why people like you should begrudge affordable housing to people other than that you like living like some kind of lord of the manor in yours, looking down on the undeserving who have to rent. Which says quite a bit more about you than it does about them.

Again, such presumptions. Easy to make things up to fit with your biases and try and draw people into an argument with someone they don't even know. Can't even get the gender right – it would be 'lady of the manor' if that were indeed the case.

And 'French yellow vest freedom fighters'. They are not 'fighting for freedom', but for money. Fighting for freedom is something quite different.

Well done. Carry on as you were. :T :j :beer:

IGNORE

Arklight

Meanwhile shares in yellow vest making companies are soaring.

zagfles

Sapphire wrote: »

And 'French yellow vest freedom fighters'. They are not 'fighting for freedom', but for money. Fighting for freedom is something quite different.

Tommy Robinson is leading the London one today. Apparently it's about Brexit.

MobileSaver

Arklight wrote: »

Now have the absurd situation where people who work and produce things have to provide most of their income to landlords and banks who produce and do nothing.

The only thing absurd is the suggestion that landlords and banks produce and do nothing.

I think the vast majority of the 20% of the population who privately rent might be quite upset if their landlords and their properties suddenly disappeared overnight. Similarly practically every single person and business in the UK uses a bank; imagine how backward this country would be if they suddenly disappeared.

Arklight

MobileSaver wrote: »

The only thing absurd is the suggestion that landlords and banks produce and do nothing.

I think the vast majority of the 20% of the population who privately rent might be quite upset if their landlords and their properties suddenly disappeared overnight. Similarly practically every single person and business in the UK uses a bank; imagine how backward this country would be if they suddenly disappeared.

I suspect you might find that if every landlord disappeared overnight the UK's housing stock would remain unaltered.

Banks serve a purpose, that purpose shouldn't be skewing markets and pricing out prospective homeowners to accommodate private investors. What do you believe happens to a mortgage payment when it goes into a bank?

AnotherJoe

AG47 wrote: »

The yellow jacket freedom fighters movement is spreading around Europe.

Could we have another 2011 all over again?

Boris water cannon tanks hve been dismantled they thought they would not need them again:rotfl:

The majority are unhappy about high rents and property prices, the people could demand the government a million affordable homes to be added to the supply every year from now on.

Whichever party offers to sort out the housing crisis will get the most votes

The "people" could "demand" unicorns and the moon on a stick for everyone but they can't have that either, it's literally impossible to fulfil

AG47 wrote: »

the housing crisis is the worst it has ever been here in London.

You're either a bare faced liar or woefully (or wilfully?) misinformed to the point of idiocy.