Homes for our people.

Magpi 47 · #1 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:17

Margaret Hodge has been getting into hot water. She has said that the indigent population should be considered first when social housing is being allocated....what are your feelings?
Do you think it is right that people who have lived in an area all their lives should have priority over local authority housing......or do you think that the homeless immigrant population should come first because their need is greater (because they are homeless)?

lancsdave · #2 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:29

I would suggest various words like stable door, bolts and horses spring to mind. What are they going to do, evict them all ?

Magpi 47 · #3 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:31

Lancsdave......I daren't answer your query.

lancsdave · #4 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:33

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Originally Posted by Magpi 47

Lancsdave......I daren't answer your query.

No problem it wasn't a query, I know the answer :eyebrows:

Neal · #5 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:39

I think that immigration should be stopped at the moment due to the country struggling to support the growing population unless people come in with skills and can work to pay their taxes and something into the country.

But in all, those who were born in this country and who have worked all their life or paid a lot in tax should be given priority, yes.

Sweetpea · #6 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:48

I have seen this happening in east London. Immigrants getting brand new houses, freshly built, when we were all festering in a run down, vandalised, over crowded blocks of flats. Many didn't believe me.

WillowTheWhisp · #7 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:51

Some countries do not allow immigrants to move there unless they can support themselves, some aren't even permitted unless they have specifically required skills.

So how come if we suggest such an idea for this country we are automatically branded as racist?

This country has finite resources and when the indigenous population observe incomers to be treated better than themselves they quite naturally resent it.

ANGELXXX · #8 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:53

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I have seen this happening in east London. Immigrants getting brand new houses, freshly built, when we were all festering in a run down, vandalised, over crowded blocks of flats. Many didn't believe me.

I believe they build 5 bed roomed council house for the Asians as they like big families... I have also heard that they convert 2 houses into 1 just to accommodate them...

Courtesy of the British tax payer...

steve m · #9 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:57

Give England a rest & let someone else have them for a while so we can regroup & look after our own.

WillowTheWhisp · #10 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 19:58

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Some friends of mine who had a large family in Blackburn were told they couldn't have a large council house as they were for the Asian families - so they moved to Cambridgeshire where there was apparently no such discrimination.

There still isn't, but it's gettings closer. Peterborough is well, infested.

Magpi 47 · #11 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 20:01

There was a news item on TV recently where Romanian Roma 'children' (some of them were 16 and 17) were coming over here without their parents, so that they could have a better life.
They were allocated homes and money to live on. One of these 'children' was 17 and living with her Roma boyfriend.......and was smiling and saying it was 'wonderful' to be in Britain....well, it would be wouldn't it?...seeing as we are paying her bills.
If you haven't paid into the benefits system, then I'm sorry, but you should not be able to claim anything.
They should all be loaded onto the next plane and sent back to where they came from.

ANGELXXX · #12 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 20:02

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Some friends of mine who had a large family in Blackburn were told they couldn't have a large council house as they were for the Asian families - so they moved to Cambridgeshire where there was apparently no such discrimination.

Sounds about right!!!

lancsdave · #13 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 20:07

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

There still isn't, but it's gettings closer. Peterborough is well, infested.

I'm quite suprised about that. Having left there 5 years ago having served an 18 month sentence I didn't find it that bad. Clearly it appears to have gone downhill which is quite funny considering I know somebody from Accrington who thinks it's better down in Sin City :puke:

Neal · #14 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 20:21

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I have seen this happening in east London. Immigrants getting brand new houses, freshly built, when we were all festering in a run down, vandalised, over crowded blocks of flats. Many didn't believe me.

Once I worked for a company in partnership with the local council. Homes, not new, were being totally re-decorated and fitted with brand new everything, right down to the cutlery, TV's and washing machines for Asylum seekers coming over, think it was when the Balkans War was going on, the last one!

Everyone who worked for the council was apparently told that they couldn't discuss it for fear of reprisals, but wasn't it obvious that people would find out? Which they did and all hell broke loose. Those that came over were not there for long.

I've no problem with people coming here for Asylum as long as:

a. They bring something good to the area / country
b. They return home when they are able to do so
c. Britain can afford to let people come here for Asylum when at the moment she can't afford to repair potholes

Sweetpea · #15 (**permalink**) 21-05-07, 20:52

I will add:

d. Don't try to change our way of life.