And I bet you keep your place in a good condition and have made costly improvements - and you'd be expected to give your place up just like that (if certain people had their way).
Exactly that, It may not be ours but we keep it in a better condition than some home owners i know keep theirs
As for minor repairs like a leaking tap, blocked sink, cleaning out the gutters, Heating fails to come on etc, Rather than call the Council to come and repair it, I get it done myself at a cost to me, even though I don't have to.
And I bet you keep your place in a good condition and have made costly improvements - and you'd be expected to give your place up just like that (if certain people had their way).
Except for the fact it is not 'their' place. It is the councils
Do these fabled people exist? As I posted on nother thread last week,the 3 bed, huge gardened, with outhouse in a spectacular location council house next door recently became vacant. Who was at the of the waiting list? Person with disabled kids? Single mum living in B & B with 3 kids? Big family from a rackrenting private landlord's slum living in bad conditions? No. A druggie and her elderly hubby with 2 kids under 4. The house is so under-occupied they were paying bedroom tax from the day they moved in. Homeless? In B & B? In a house so bad it was due to be knocked down? No. From a nice (I'm told) private rented, detached house in a nicer part of York. We are not even in York. This is not York council. And these people are at the very top of another council's waiting list, above every single person on the waiting list from this and neighbouring areas?
There can be no demand for council houses if the people at the top of the list are already better housed than people in council houses, and only have 2 kids young enough to share one room.
I've stopped believing there are people in genuine need, now my council has rehomed these people who are inadequates, sure, but were already safely housed, and don't even have enough kids to fill the house they've been given, on the day they walked in.:)
Let him stay there. It is his family's home. The council would only give it to a load of druggies, or people wealthy enough to buy the house as soon as they have bagged the secure tenancy, after the first year (my new neighbours are so poor they have an Audi and another big car in the drive. We work for a living, and could never afford them cars. )
You complain about all the money and cars that the family next door to you have but then go on to say bob who is on 145 grand a year should stay in his council property. Makes no sense
A true socialist, with the full sense of entitlement and expectation that other peoples' money will sustain him.
Alternatively, he may have an ideological objection to the private ownership of land, and therefore doesn't want to buy a home or pay rent to someone who owns one.
My dad was like that. Never gave up his council house, or bought it under right-to-buy, even when he could have bought it outright.
He used to take the piss out of me when I bought my first house, saying I'd sold out my socialist principles.
Except for the fact it is not 'their' place. It is the councils
Its our home, this is the a lot of people don't like to hear and it stays that way unless we do some thing wrong in breaking the tenancy agreement, unlike what is happening to a lot of private tenants now house prices are going up, is they are being kicked out just so the landlord can sell up and make more money.
Its our home, this is the a lot of people don't like to hear and it stays that way unless we do some thing wrong in breaking the tenancy agreement, unlike what is happening to a lot of private tenants now house prices are going up, is they are being kicked out just so the landlord can sell up and make more money.
I guess the problem here is that, to most people, he's a shit of the first water. He is to me, I wouldn't cross the road to piss on him if he were on fire. The divisions here are simply left versus others. I personally feel that HA or LA housing is for the less well off, it's to help them out. Crow is almost in the max tax bracket, same sort of money, say, as one of those fat cat bastard NHS chief execs (true fact, I should know) there'd be a lynch mob of left wingers if a hospital CEO parked his or her Audi outside a HA home.
Bob crow the rail union chief earns over £145.000 a year and still lives in his council house. He refuses to give it up. All those people on the waiting list who are desperate for a home and there is this selfish git still living in a subsidised by the tax payer council house.
He could easily afford his own home
Can't understand why he's living in a council house when he's earning that kind of money. I think people should only live in council houses when they can't afford to take on a mortgage for a nice looking (inside and out) house.
this is a person that would rather hold himself back than to go out and buy himself a nice house and garden for him and his family all because of his 'principals' that working class people shouldnt have nice things or that somehow turns them into posh people or tories
this is a person that would rather hold himself back than to go out and buy himself a nice house and garden for him and his family all because of his 'principals' that working class people shouldnt have nice things or that somehow turns them into posh people or tories
Nah, he's probably got a place in Florida, with golf club membership thrown in.
You complain about all the money and cars that the family next door to you have but then go on to say bob who is on 145 grand a year should stay in his council property. Makes no sense
Bob Crow does not have a council property he rents from a Housing Association not a council.
No i do not think it is immoral what is immoral IMO is councils selling property at knock down rates often to people who let them out in the private rented sector.
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Exactly that, It may not be ours but we keep it in a better condition than some home owners i know keep theirs
As for minor repairs like a leaking tap, blocked sink, cleaning out the gutters, Heating fails to come on etc, Rather than call the Council to come and repair it, I get it done myself at a cost to me, even though I don't have to.
Except for the fact it is not 'their' place. It is the councils
You complain about all the money and cars that the family next door to you have but then go on to say bob who is on 145 grand a year should stay in his council property. Makes no sense
Alternatively, he may have an ideological objection to the private ownership of land, and therefore doesn't want to buy a home or pay rent to someone who owns one.
My dad was like that. Never gave up his council house, or bought it under right-to-buy, even when he could have bought it outright.
He used to take the piss out of me when I bought my first house, saying I'd sold out my socialist principles.
Its our home, this is the a lot of people don't like to hear and it stays that way unless we do some thing wrong in breaking the tenancy agreement, unlike what is happening to a lot of private tenants now house prices are going up, is they are being kicked out just so the landlord can sell up and make more money.
Is not your home it's the councils
As far as the council are concerned its my home, and as long as I stick to my agreed tenancy it stays that way
Nope is still the councils home. You don't own it
I would say it's the council's house but the occupant's home.
Most people don't own their home either. The bank does.
I think that's fair to say. I guess where ever you live is your home.
Fair enough is their home but not their property
Captain Obvious to the rescue!
Don't get your point really.
Can't understand why he's living in a council house when he's earning that kind of money. I think people should only live in council houses when they can't afford to take on a mortgage for a nice looking (inside and out) house.
Exactly it's a council property
Nah, he's probably got a place in Florida, with golf club membership thrown in.
Yeah, but it's still a council property.
Ad infinitum.
Bob Crow does not have a council property he rents from a Housing Association not a council.
No i do not think it is immoral what is immoral IMO is councils selling property at knock down rates often to people who let them out in the private rented sector.
Ok I've agreed with that already.