OT council houses.

Sorry for yet another ot thread, my last one for the day, i promise, but i thought this may get a reaction from some of you..

Unions boss, living in a council house, anything wrong with that?






Bob Crow: 'I have no moral duty' to move out of council house despite receiving six-figure salary as RMT boss

The RMT general secretary said he was being victimised for living in a council property and it would be unfair on his family to move them out of


Bob Crow has defended living in a council house despite earning £145,000 annually.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ing-sixfigure-salary-as-rmt-boss-8964238.html

 

145k would probably get a one bed squat in London.

 

Its either him, or some Romanian, so he may as well keep it.

 

can't see any issue with it tbh

 

Fits nicely with Cameron's Britain and the Tory Stereotype.

Just another hole in our economy though isn't it? There's too many nowadays to worry about, besides which if it wasn't him living there I'm sure it would just be taken up by a family of 17 'poor asylum seekers' with no papers and who have eaten their passports. Which is easier to swallow?

 

Aye, that's the way I see it too.

 

But not all are like that, some EU members come and work and pay taxes, which out weighs benefits....apparently.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-and-Romanian-migrants-will-help-economy.html

 

Since when has become compulsory to move out of a council property when you earn a good wage? Good on him and his family for not jumping on the 'home owner democracy' tory propaganda ****e which is the root cause of a lot of the housing shortages the country is facing now..

 

the media seem to be under the impression every ****er in Eastern Europe is constantly plotting how to get into our country, are they ****.
secondly, if we're throwing around the same ****ing tired negative stereotypes we chucked at Asians, about bringing families here to all live in one house and claim benefits, can we at least see some proof. it's comments like that that make us look like utter xenophobic cretins. For ****'s sake, people are allowed to move countries yano, they're not automatically scrounging off the system. As an aside, benefits still cost the government less every year than tax evasion, so i don't get why it's all any ****er who works goes on about.

well that was a bit of a whiny one!

 

I've never seen a 20ft queue of eastern European painkiller addicts queuing up outside of boots every morning on my way to work. That's a myth, they are always hard at work by 6am lifting bricks and operating heavy machinery that Brits aren't qualified to operate or could never be trained to operate, and I definitely only ever see British people begging.

This is the first case of a British bloke getting a council house that he may or may not deserve to live in and it's caused a national storm, yet every day in one of the rags there's a new story about 37 Asylum seekers given a £62m townhouse in Knightsbridge because it's their human rights to not have to live in a regular apartment elsewhere, despite the fact that they shared a skip in their homeland with their 40 other family members that was set on fire every day.

Honest opinion? I couldn't give a **** if this guy was on a 7 figure salary and being paid to live there.

 

Rant of the day...

Best watch your blood pressure there Terry.

 

I don't even get pissed off with them it's the lies.

There's a bloke who comes in my gym to train from Ukraine who gets a free pass from his benefits or something, he doesn't work and every day he comes in with stacks of snides from headphones to ***s to dvd's. He's a proper bare-knuckle dirty fighter type bloke, I do a kettle bells session with him and the guy is a tank, found out he just sits at home eating steak all day!

On a totally separate note, Thor: Dark World... top movie, watched it on DVD last night.

 

Did you just make that bit in bold up?

Our Welfare bill in the UK costs more than tax evasion losses, surely you can't think otherwise? The NI contributions being made by people is being sold as an investment for future protection, such as surgery and unemployment. It was introduced to fund a way of safeguarding the individual in unforeseen circumstances relating to health and employement. Our pensioners are being screwed by our state because this NI budget has been stretched to it's very limits, to a point where it's unlikely that the generation of youths employed today will see any state pension at all, despite still having to invest more and more into it. It is no longer justified.

It's not as simple as us just blaming the foreigners here, it's the system that is failing us and whilst the system continues to let more and more foreigners into the country to absorb more and more of the countries' limited resources, then of course people will inevitable identify them as PART of the problem.

How comes the onus of proof is on us anyhow? You asked for the proof, you go find proof to the contrary that there isn't an influx of under qualified workers entering our country.

 

If he has a council house , best of luck to him, they probably only want it off him so that they can sell it the way they sold all the rest, what a disgrace, that was public owned housing and the government had no right to sell them off, most of the people that bought them have now made a handsome profit and moved on , leaving no accommodation for low income families. It makes my blood boil every time I think about it.

 

well put. a fact often ignored and far too ****ing often. if they sorted out that mess, there'll be a lot a more in the coffers....although I've still have doubts as to whether the ****ers that be would spend it wisely.

Also, this is incredibly racist towards Bulgarians & Romanians - most of the ones I know/have met, are proper hard-working folk. harder working than a lot of the domiciled british folk living off the system. are there any reasonable stats on this i.e. who costs the state the most by area?

 

I think he should buy it or get out. Simple really.

 

If you have nowt you rent a council house if you work and have a little you buy your council house.if you work and manage a budget well, you buy a house that you can afford.with a bit of luck and good work ethics you move to some more expensive house.thats what you did in my young days.????

 

heating bill was low then

 

I know a few people who don't struggle for cash and they live in council houses.thats there choice.i have no problem with that.