Time to by that big LCD screen you've been eying up

[zathras]

The original post says that the plasma tv box was in a communal bin, so can someone please explain how you come to the conclusion that the owner is a scrounger?

Yes I can.. Although to be fair it's not 100% reliable.

Those who buy a property also tend to value it more. You can often tell those apartments that have been bought as they also look like they have been kept in good condition. I've seen this on many a council estate. In the block served by that communal bin room not one flat within it looks as if it has been looked after.

It is also of sufficiently long distance not to have come from our block of apartments and ours are privately owned - although some are rented out.

Have to say that on an individual basis it would be hard to say this with any degree of certainty but neither are there a shortage of expensive and new cars.

[Mordac]

>The original post says that the plasma tv box was in a communal bin, so can someone please explain how you come to the conclusion that the owner is a scrounger?


You're right, I was jumping to conclusions. He probably just nicked it.

[DaveB]

Woo, a simple post about EU trade tariffs and a new telly and we get three pages of heated argument on social equality and the housing market!

I love this place

[IR35 Avoider]

This argument about council housing highlights one reason why it shouldn't exist. Benefits should be paid in cash with an allowance to pay for private housing included. To be fair, a while ago I saw that the government had brought in a pilot program under which they were doing this.

In future political authorities should not be allowed to own or control residential property, except in the very specialised circumstance of it being tied to a job.

Similarly the concept of "low-cost" housing is economic nonsense. It is usually short-hand for subsidised housing. If there are people who you think need it, give them more money in the form of benefits, or higher salaries if they are working.

[DaveB]

Just imagin trying to walk out of Dixon's with that stuffed down your trousers...

Easy

[G8_Summit]

Scroungers

I hate scroungers. It’s all about helping the deserving poor, and not helping the undeserving poor. But how do you differentiate?



I’m past caring now anyway. The country wanted Labour and that’s what they have. As long as I’m alright Jack, keep them in their poverty.