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Big fire in Landan

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by A.L.D.O 4.1, Jun 14, 2017.

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  1. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    I don't get it though. How can a nurse for example live in there? I'm sure I saw a nurse on tv last night who lived near by.
     
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  2. Null

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    The council pay the rents or subsidise them ... probably
     
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  3. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    Govanhill don't do high flats but if they did....
     
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  4. GroveRanger

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    Simple. The nurse is a Council tenant and the Council pays the rent, or rather we all do through Housing Benefits. The flat used to belong to the (Tory) Council but the venerable (Tory) Mrs Thatcher declared open season on Council flats and sold them off. Former Council residents cashed in, sold up and moved to caravans in Canvey Island when the flats were worth about £50k and they were scooped up by investors who now rent them back to the (Tory) Council that sold them in the first place.

    Flats still owned and rented by the Council are probably £400 a month or thereabouts.

    Free market economy and all that.
     
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  5. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    I liked Thatcher
     
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  6. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    I don't have a clue about benefits and all that. Sounds like a laugh tho.
     
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  7. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    With you earning 18k a year you will never need to worry about benefits, mate <ok>
     
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  8. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    <cheers>:emoticon-0164-cash::emoticon-0164-cash::emoticon-0147-emo:
     
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  9. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    Housing shouldn't be in the hands of the council. It's too much open to abuse. We have a Housing Executive which is non political.
     
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  10. Null

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    Monacos like the flats today ...
     
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  11. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    On fire? Cheers

    In fact that was yesterday, today they will be soaking and have quite a bit of smoke damage? Cheers
     
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  12. Null

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    Naw

    Worthless and useless ...
     
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  13. Ponders Revisited

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    455k for a house in Ponders End. Cash payment, too.

    I miss the old place, but the folly gladdens my heart nowadays.
     
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  14. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    I was going to say, full of dead bodies but it wouldn't really have made sense and it is a bit soon.
     
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  15. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    I was going to say black and reeking
     
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  16. Null

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    <laugh>
     
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  17. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    That was before the fire.
     
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  18. GroveRanger

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    It's the bed made for us in the 1980's and we're having to lie in it now.

    A minority made a bit of dough out of the right to buy scheme but the cost to local authorities renting these properties back is staggering. Thatcher thought once everyone bought their own flats there would be no need for Council housing any longer. At the same time she brought in a ruling to stop Councils building any more of their own properties, hence the shortage crisis we are in now. Silly cow.
     
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  19. Ponders Revisited

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    I don't think unprecedented levels of immigration have helped much, either.

    We're not allowed to talk about that, though.
     
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  20. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    Think this might be the coloureds Hillsborough.
     
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