Work or be homeless!

happinessfactory

slipthru wrote: »

At the end of the day the person in cheaper housing does not make your housing more expensive.

There is a reduction in the overall supply of housing when this housing is taken out of circulation.

Therefore other available housing becomes more expensive.

You need to read your Economics textbook;)

Retired_I.F.A.

I just hope all of you !!!!!!!s that have jobs and are slagging off those who live in council homes get laid off tommorow.

6 months of nothing but queing up for jobs offering minimum wage or less will soon change your attitudes.

slipthru

happinessfactory wrote: »

There is a reduction in the overall supply of housing when this housing is taken out of circulation.

Therefore other available housing becomes more expensive.

You need to read your Economics textbook;)

Hmm in a free market yes, but we could have controlled private rents too.

wolvoman

Paula77 wrote: »

I feel that they suggest a wild plan like that - Then know everyone will be up in arms about it, shouting and screaming and then the real plans turn up stating that it won't be so bad and people walk away thinking they have done a good job persuading the government, only to find out it was a ruse to get the 2nd plan in anyway

This government has been doing that for nearly 11 years now.

That and re-announcing policy announcements that they have already made several months or years before.

johnroberts07

I was working for 30 years, i was buying my own house and had a car. I had a psychotic breakdown and have been diagnosed as Paranoid Scitzophrenic and i have severe clinical depression. So now im on IB in a council flat as i lost my house, i cant drive because of the large dose of tablets im on. And im still in debt and cant afford to live, never mind go out anywhere. My girlfriends daughter is 27 and her husbands 32, she has never had a job and hes worked a couple of years here and there since leaving school. They have a council house. She got one at 16 because she got pregnant at 15. they go out all the time smoke drink and take cannabis. They are a lot better off than me, WHY ?

Phirefly

Retired_I.F.A. wrote: »

I just hope all of you !!!!!!!s that have jobs and are slagging off those who live in council homes get laid off tommorow.

6 months of nothing but queing up for jobs offering minimum wage or less will soon change your attitudes.

All my dreams would come true if I was laid off tomorrow. I'd get a nice payout from my private redundancy insurance cover and I'd finally be able to devote all my time to building my own business. And if that didn't work out, I'd walk into my local driving agency and get immediate employment driving palettes across the country for a decent hourly rate.

adouglasmhor

The_Aptly_Named_Numbnutz wrote: »

Keep ya wig on ! No-one has even suggested as much.

So what's this?

happinessfactory wrote: »

There are few things that upset me as much as council houses lived in by people fully capable of working.

And I was also refering to other comments on other threads about council housing with similar views.

MadSebW

I don't know every single person's situation, and i can appreciate that finding work can be difficult.. But other people have managed it.. Wether that be through a hard education/uni, luck or complete dedication. Of course your not going to get a job if someone is too fussy to accept minimum wage. If that's all their skills are worth, then so be it.. They can work themselves up in time. If they are skilled enough, they would have a better chance for a higher wage.

And I hardly think wishing everybody would lose their jobs, who ARE working hard providing support to their families and themselves, is a very mature thing to say at all.. If EVERYBODY got laid off tomorrow where will the money come from to cater for the jobless community?

All in all, there are people in genuine need.. There are also a hell of a lot of people taking the mick AND acting proud about it that do NOT deserve the easy living they get.

The council are not willing to help those who have tried to independently take care of their own. They are not going to give us a home to suit our affordability because we earn an income.

Running_Horse

Retired_I.F.A. wrote: »

I just hope all of you !!!!!!!s that have jobs and are slagging off those who live in council homes get laid off tommorow.

6 months of nothing but queing up for jobs offering minimum wage or less will soon change your attitudes.

That shows the difference between those who support this idea and those who are against. You want those in work to suffer. We want those without work to find it. What a disgusting attitude you have. If one million Poles can find work overnight, then why not our own unemployed?

I got made redundant, and went out and found a better job. Best thing that ever happened to me. In the meantime I did low paid retail work and didn't claim a penny from the state.

Meanwhile members of my distant family have been whining for years "there's nothing out there". They might think it clever to have been given free housing and money, until her daughter did exactly the same and ended up on her own with a baby on an estate where someone was recently murdered.

The trouble is the something for nothing attitude passes down through the generations, but like all such initiatives and tough talking, in reality nothing will change, and another welfare generation will be lost. What a waste.

Microstar_2

There's over a million Polish people (plus numerous other Eastern Europeans) come into this country over the last couple of years and got jobs. They are not eligible for council help, but seem to manage to find somewhere to live.
Employers love them and the CBI is keen to see more Eastern European workers enter the country because they're good workers who get on with the job, turn up on time and don't make trouble..
Where are all the British people that 'can't get jobs' - sat on their fat backsides watching daytime TV....
No one should get something for nothing. If they can't get a proper job then they could be put into work crews doing something useful - maybe start by cleaning up some of the disgusting council estates? Scrubbing their kids' graffiti off the walls, vomit and dog muck up off the pavements etc etc