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Social Cleansing ! Is this the tip of the ice berg ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17821018
Newham Council is looking to ''export'' its benefit claiming social housing tenants to Stoke on Trent ! as the council can not afford the cost of putting them in private rented accomadation.
Newham Council is looking to ''export'' its benefit claiming social housing tenants to Stoke on Trent ! as the council can not afford the cost of putting them in private rented accomadation.
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Well you can't have visitors from other countries seeing all the needy homeless folk miling around making the place look untidy. They might think our government is ineffective and that we're a third world country, or something. Maybe a better answer would be to take them to a "Needy Camp" up in Scotland, out of the way somewhere.
The problem is not the "social cleansing" issue but the stupid situation where we having thousands of people on housing benefit, taking money out of the benefit "pot" to give them somewhere to live.
I know they may not all be immigrants or from ethnic families, but we have allowed thousands of immigrants into this country in the last couple of decades, who cant speak English and have no skils to offer, and many of them settle in these inner city areas.
And of course these immigrants join the already indiginous population in these inner cities, many of whom can't speak English and have no skills to offer either.
If you own a business, and you want to employ someone, you ask for a CV, you ask them to come to an interview, and then you select the people you want to join your company. This keeps the quality of the people in your company high.
But we have not done the same to this country. This country is like a "company" and you should select only the people who are going to benefit you to come to live here.
Living in this country is a huge plus and must be worth thousands a year to a person, compared to say living in much of Africa or India.
But we seem to have let anyone and everyone in, thus adding to the people at the lower end of society who have nothing to offer at all.
Instead of this country improving its stock of people and skills we have watered it down so we now have hundreds of thousands of people who have come to live here who are now a drain on society.
We could and should have handled it so much better.
I know they may not all be immigrants or from ethnic families, but we have allowed thousands of immigrants into this country in the last couple of decades, who cant speak English and have no skils to offer, and many of them settle in these inner city areas.
And of course these immigrants join the already indiginous population in these inner cities, many of whom can't speak English and have no skills to offer either.
If you own a business, and you want to employ someone, you ask for a CV, you ask them to come to an interview, and then you select the people you want to join your company. This keeps the quality of the people in your company high.
But we have not done the same to this country. This country is like a "company" and you should select only the people who are going to benefit you to come to live here.
Living in this country is a huge plus and must be worth thousands a year to a person, compared to say living in much of Africa or India.
But we seem to have let anyone and everyone in, thus adding to the people at the lower end of society who have nothing to offer at all.
Instead of this country improving its stock of people and skills we have watered it down so we now have hundreds of thousands of people who have come to live here who are now a drain on society.
We could and should have handled it so much better.
Be ntetesting what the electorial commission think of this. Last time Lady Porter shipped a load of poor people out of her borough it was enough to get her own party's councillors elected. It was illegal and she was personally fined a great deal of money.
Exporting poor people out of the borough, and presumably replacing them with more affluent people will undoubtedly result in a shift in votes as well. If that is shown to be favouring one party over another, it is illegal.
Exporting poor people out of the borough, and presumably replacing them with more affluent people will undoubtedly result in a shift in votes as well. If that is shown to be favouring one party over another, it is illegal.
this is incendiary language and often the real case is no where near as bad.
It won't happen for a start, and it's a way of these councils to bash the government, by saying see what we will do, if you start cutting our budgets. The truth is that costs for housing benefits are enormous, and there has to be a way to cut those, and it doesn't have to mean sending the so called poorest to the outer Hebrides, though that is certainly a thought for some of the more noisy of our neighbours.
It won't happen for a start, and it's a way of these councils to bash the government, by saying see what we will do, if you start cutting our budgets. The truth is that costs for housing benefits are enormous, and there has to be a way to cut those, and it doesn't have to mean sending the so called poorest to the outer Hebrides, though that is certainly a thought for some of the more noisy of our neighbours.
I don't know how the folk in Stoke would accept a load of evacuees from Olympic London.
They should put a kerb on what those private landlords charge to rent their accommodation.
Either that or wait until after the Olympics and the move all their tenants into the accommodation specially constructed to house the Olympic athletes.
They should put a kerb on what those private landlords charge to rent their accommodation.
Either that or wait until after the Olympics and the move all their tenants into the accommodation specially constructed to house the Olympic athletes.
em10 under the new housing benefit rules the maximum benefit for a 3 bedroom house is £400 a week , but in most of London the going rate in private rent is over £2000 a week for the same 3 bed house. Someone has to pay the diffrence . It is going to get much worse as with the Olympics rented housing in London is at a premium and landlords can get what ever they like.
variable rents across some of the capital, they may not be cheap as chips, but no where is.
http://www.gumtree.com/3-bedrooms-rent/london
http://www.gumtree.com/3-bedrooms-rent/london
The figur of £2000 a week was from the BBC a few months back it was commented on in AB at the time but I can't find it now.
If you Google 'houses to rent London' many are £2000 a week of more and that is for a 3 bedroom flat. It does say rents are affected by the Olympics so possibly they will come down next year.
If you Google 'houses to rent London' many are £2000 a week of more and that is for a 3 bedroom flat. It does say rents are affected by the Olympics so possibly they will come down next year.
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