Affordable Homes

[ratewhore]

They won't take your land because you'll be paying increased council tax for the pleasure of having a larger than average plot...

Got ya by the danglies either way.

[Hart-floot]

Wonder how long it will be before any garden over 30ft will be compulsorily (?) purchased by Bliar and Co. I live in the country and paid a premium for the house because it has a little bit of land - no doubt this will be considered to be wholly unfair. (

Not compulsory purchased just push you up a few council tax bands in the next review

BTW whats happened to the re-valuation in England? Not heard much lately

[John Galt]

They won't take your land because you'll be paying increased council tax for the pleasure of having a larger than average plot...

Got ya by the danglies either way.

True RH - but if they take my bit and build half a dozen houses on it they've then got 7 lots of council tax rather than one - as you say danglies firmly gripped

[ratewhore]

Well if that happens you won't have far to look for cleaners, gardeners, builders etc. The new houses will either be full of the feckin eastern europeans or, indeed, illegal immigrants.

Lucky you

[John Galt]

Well if that happens you won't have far to look for cleaners, gardeners, builders etc. The new houses will either be full of the feckin eastern europeans or, indeed, illegal immigrants.

Lucky you

That's it cheer me up why don't you

[Fungus]

A couple of points here - in true CUK tradition, relating to the same thread, yet totally unconnected -

a) Huguenots started arriving in England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685, so this is well over three hundred years ago.

Fair enough. We can't have inaccuracies creeping in to CUK, oh no, otherwise where would we be, but on the slippery slope to eternal damnation. I humbly thank you for ensuring that a small sliver of decent civilised society can struggle on despite the revolting hordes massed outside the gates. Altogether now:


There'll always be an England,
While there's a country lane,
Wherever there's a cottage small
Beside a field of grain.
There'll always be an England,
While there's a busy street,
Wherever there's a turning wheel
A million marching feet.
Red, white and blue,
What does it mean to you?
Surely you're proud
Shout it aloud.
Britons awake!
The Empire too,
We can depend on you,
Freedom remains
These are the chains
Nothing can break.
There'll always be an England,
And England shall be free,
If England means as much to you
As England means to me.
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in a silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house
Against the envy of less happier lands
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm
This England"


Or maybe no. I hear there is a surfeit of cheap empty houses in Poland.

[PRC1964]

Ian Dury:

There are jewels in the crown of England's glory
And every jewel shines a thousand ways

Frankie Howerd, Noel Coward and garden gnomes
Frankie Vaughan, Kenneth Horne, Sherlock Holmes
Monty, Biggles and Old King Cole
In the pink or on the dole
Oliver Twist and Long John Silver
Captain Cook and Nelly Dean
Enid Blyton, Gilbert Harding
Malcolm Sargeant, Graham Greene (Graham Greene)

All the jewels in the crown of England's glory
Too numerous to mention, but a few
And every one could tell a different story
And show old England's glory something new

Nice bit of kipper and Jack the Ripper and Upton Park
Gracie, Cilla, Maxy Miller, Petula Clark
Winkles, Woodbines, Walnut Whips
Vera Lynn and Stafford Cripps
Lady Chatterley, Muffin the Mule
Winston Churchill, Robin Hood
Beatrix Potter, Baden-Powell
Beecham's powders, Yorkshire pud (Yorkshire pud)

With Billy Bunter, Jane Austen
Reg Hampton, George Formby
Billy Fury, Little Titch
Uncle Mac, Mr. Pastry and all
Uncle mac, Mr. Patry and all

allright england?
gowan england
oh england

All the jewels in the crown of England's glory
Too numerous to mention, but a few
And every one could tell a different story
And show old England's glory something new

Somerset Maugham, Top Of The Form with the Boys' Brigade
Mortimer Wheeler, Christine Keeler and the Board of Trade
Henry Cooper, wakey wakey, England's labour
Standard Vanguard, spotted dick, England's workers
England's glory