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@hora plenty of people in Paris chose to live in a studio flat on €60k pa, they rather be central than have a bigger place with a longer commute. For £15k pa you can rent a 3 bedroom house just outside London
There's a flood of properties about to hit the market on the south bank between Victoria and battersea. We will see how much real demand there is......
With bloody QE you cant make rational investment decisions. The market has to correct (in London) it's just when. The longer the delay and the more support, the harder the ultimate fall. Madness...
For £15k pa you can rent a 3 bedroom house just outside London
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/bellister-castle-northumberland-goes-up-8601740
An interesting article in today's paper pointed out that we pump over £26 billion a year into propping up the aspirations of buy to let landlords by way of tax allowances and topping up rental payments with housing benefit . Yet it is those who need an actual home to live in who are portrayed as the scroungers.
It's a terrible situation, if only the council houses hadn't all been sold off.
So Thatcher's clearly to blame, as usual.
Who were they sold off to?
Plenty haven't.
In the interests of balance, quite a lot of BTL landlords are won't accept tenants on benefits.
And as a more personal example, my brother in law received a large compensation payment after an accident at work that meant he will be unable to work 50 due to his ongoing problems. He's invested that money in a couple of rental properties to give him an income when he has to give up work in the next year or so. Not sure I'd class him as a scrounging landlord given that he has two kids to support as well.
[i]FWIW those signing on JUST for NI contributions [b]get the most grief[/b] as they are the most likely to sign off and give up as they are not even getting any money. Those who are getting money and who depend it on will put up with a lot a more.[/i]
This wasn't news to me, I've known for many years that the system exercises an immoral bias against those deemed to be able to suffer.
Of course, the immorality is people are forced to finance the system via their tax contributions, while being told that the safety net is there, should they ever need it.
However, if or when that time does come along. They are [i]given grief[/i] as some sort of stress test against how determined and likely they are to push a claim for assistance, all the way through to resolution.
A process of making life for someone who finds themselves out of work, even more stressful as they learn that the safety net they have been forced to fund, isn't going to be provided for them, after all.
Therefore at this point, the DwP seem to have forgotten that entitlement should include consideration for those who have contributed. The flaw in the system is the individual bias and discrimination held by staff dealing with those who seek to claim.
They make personal judgements based on their own sense of politics and perceived need and then choose who they provide complete assist to and who they allow to struggle with the system.
If you have contents insurance and you make a claim. AFAIK, the insurance company don't take into account whether or not you can afford to have them not pay you out. It's your insurance policy and you are entitled to payment under those T's n C's.
But somehow the Gov gets to have it both ways.
(In 2010 I had reason to claim. All contributions in place and as they should be, but because I had no idea how to exploit the system and because staff exercised an default bias against my type, claiming anything. I went without)
Yes, the woman in question is suffering a misplaced sense of entitlement. I've no idea where she got the impression that the state will forever fund her choice of lifestyle.
Also, I appear to have missed any mention of the father of her children, the traditional "bread winner".
[i] hora - Member
Who were they sold off to?
Plenty haven't. [/i]
Which reminds me of an R4 program I heard a few months ago. During the program a lady described how she came to live in a flat the council provided for her, in London. After a while the lady decided to exercise her right to buy from the council at a price much lower than market value. She then sold the property later for a price in excess of £500,000.
There's a flood of properties about to hit the market on the south bank between Victoria and battersea. We will see how much real demand there is......
[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/servants-quarters-counted-as-social-housing-2015020995191 ]Details here[/url]
The Titina Nzolameso case is scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court today (17 Mar 2015).
jambourgie - MemberAs I see it, it's only going to get worse as property prices/rents get sillier and more and more jobs are outsourced or automated. Any ideas for 'the final solution'?
What it is, is a crisis of salaried employment. Maybe the end crisis, but a slow one. It's been a very effective way to coerce people into doing what you want them to do, but now that there's better ways of getting those things done we're losing the need to coerce. But, at the moment we're still on the balancing point, and automating/teching people out of work, while still having a system designed to force people to work. "The Gospel imperative is broken"
We don't need the donkey to move any more but we've spent so long wielding the carrot and the stick that we don't know how to stop. Though now we want to save on carrots so we're putting all our effort into making bigger sticks and wielding them more often. And acting surprised when someone kicks.
For as long as we flog the feudal capitalism and corporatism horses, we have to accept that there will be people out of work and out of step- it's not that they're failing to fit in the machine, it's that the machine has failed to fit them. Obviously a lot of people want to pretend otherwise but if you have a broken machine and you don't bother to fix it, you need to deal with the inevitable damage. It still makes good things, sometimes a broken machine is still worth running but you can't brush off the losses.
The separate problem the UK has is insane Londoncentricity, everything possible is done to grow London at the expense of everywhere else, turn as much of the country as possible into commuter barracks, draw in jobs and then say "we need to invest more because London is where all the success is" instead of "we need to invest less in London because it's already mentally over-invested and it's leeched the life out of half the country". Oh and of course expect the rest of the country to thank London for biting it. And you can't work so hard to dragging everyone and everything into London then complain when people still want to live there.
and you'll come
for two weeks that will turn into ten years until your skins fallen off
'till you think "oh I'd better get out of London now me skins fallen off"
You'll think "oh, oh better get out of London" but where you gonna go,
out into the countryside
have kids, settle down in the countryside with you kids,
think "oh, oh I'm out in the countryside with my kids, I got away from London"
But no you ain't
You got kids
Where they coming?
Back to London, that's where
You gotta run just to stand still, don't even think about being ill
you can a have quicky, maybe take a sicky,
Do what you got do but don't take the mickey
Beggars cant be choosers
You can't be picky
Get it, got it, good
Off you go now son, off to those fields to breed
or lie in that gutter and bleed
I am London
Did no one notice?
Who's up for working an hour later tonight so we can give her the life she so rightly deserves?
It's quite Kafka-esque.
You are Jesse Pinkman, and I claim my $5 worth of Meth.
the total cost of her housing, direct benefits, healthcare and educating her children is already well over £1m if the dates in the articles are correct - just the housing cost alone is £358K for a 6 year period.
With most median families making a negligible net contribution to the state we're looking at tens of thousands of families for a whole year just to support this woman. This is a slap in the fact to all the families that work hard and get by on much less with little or no direct state support.
Worf every penny gov.