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Bob crow - council house
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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
He could easily afford his own home
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Yes it does say live there as long you like. However if he wants to be ' a man of the people' he should give the property up to some other family on the list that are in desperate need.
I thought it was a Housing Association house, not a Council house?
Whatever it is there are still families on the list that need the property more than him.
Who are these families?
What do you mean?
People who earn a tenth what Crow earns. However, if he did move into a neighbourhood with plenty of commuters, they'd probably lynch him for calling another Tube strike.
Have there been any complaints from these families?
Have they gone to the Housing Association and said "Oi, what's he doing in there. It should be us".
At what salary level should people be forced to leave any rented accomodation and pay up for bricks and mortar?
So is tax avoidance.
It's pretty unbecoming for a man who alleges he supports 'ordinary people' and their rights. Most of the big union bosses are the same, mind. I believe Scargill still inhabits a NUM property, for instance.
What's that got to do with this situation?
It's called deflection. What you just witnessed was particularly poor attempt at it.
He doesn't have to buy he could rent privately
I have a friend who is very affluent. She rents, it's a bedsit. She has ample funds to rent something better, or even buy somewhere outright.
She stays in her bedsit because she likes living in it.
Now, you could say the same about her.
As she's got enough cash, she should move out of the bedsit, as she's taking up accommodation that could be occupied by, for example, someone on a low wage who's desperate to move out of the parental home.
"All those people on the waiting list who are desperate for a home"
I'll ask again, who are these people on the waiting list?
Do you have their names?
"living in a subsidised by the tax payer council house."
I thought housing associations were private companies?
My parents live in a housing association owned flat. The association is a private company. My parents rent is not subsidised by the tax payer.
Good let her live in a bedsit. As long as it isn't a council one with people on a housing list waiting for it.
Why would I have their names???
As much as I think the guys a dick, he's not actually doing anything wrong here (grey area morally perhaps).
Please explain the subsidies you refer to - or is it just a DM style assumption ?
Cheaper rent