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[Troll]

This was on the radio yesterday and featured a run down housing estate that Blair visited at the start of his presidency.... since the visit by his holyness, they have poured 55 million into the estate, but had now concluded that it is a lost cause & will bulldoze the lot & start again with a mix of low cost housing & affluent to hopefully keep the effluent in check.

I thought it would have been cheaper to torch the place & shoot all the residents

[Bagpuss]

I assume this was in GB - was it your Lambourghini or Porsche up north, or a rusty Mark III Cortina down south?

It was the Cortina, everyone else was driving a D reg Nissan Stanza

[Mustang]

Typical of New Liebour!

I once had a plod stop me and ask why my car had foreign number plates. He wasn't amused when I told him "because I live abroad"!! He then asked what I was doing here (in the UK) and I simply said "Visiting".

He even breathalysed me and all I had done was turn round in a pub car park!! I guess he was short of his "quota"!!

[wendigo100]

Allegedly...

I understand the weather in Israel is quite nice this time of year...

Indeed. And she only had to pay half of it back.

[cityboy]

I expect local residents watched with glee as their house value tumbled!

[wendigo100]

[QUOTE=Buffoon]

Didn’t Westminster Council try something like this back in the 80’s?

That was some sort of Tory gerrymandering, wasn't it?

[Buffoon]

[QUOTE=Paddy]

Higher earners should live alongside poorer households to achieve a better mix in housing

Didn’t Westminster Council try something like this back in the 80’s?

[Paddy]

“Higher earners should live alongside poorer households to achieve a better mix in housing, a Government-commissioned report said yesterday.”

Local Government implanted a similar policy in my hometown. The council bought up properties in the well to do area. The properties were then used to house problem families and ex-convicts under the theory that if the families are housed in better areas they will change their ways and behave better. The result is that the area is suffering from vandalism theft and murder for the first time in forty years.

[BrilloPad]

Higher earners should live alongside poorer households to achieve a better mix in housing, a Government-commissioned report said yesterday.

And leave the good houses for civil servants?

[wendigo100]

I once had reason for a plod to ask me why I was "driving that sort of car in that kind of area".

"Erm, because I live there?"

I assume this was in GB - was it your Lambourghini or Porsche up north, or a rusty Mark III Cortina down south?

[Euro-commuter]

I once had reason for a plod to ask me why I was "driving that sort of car in that kind of area".

"Erm, because I live there?"

I guess now said plod will have to be sent on a re-education course.

Obviously you were ahead of your time

[threaded]

I once had reason for a plod to ask me why I was "driving that sort of car in that kind of area".

"Erm, because I live there?"

I guess now said plod will have to be sent on a re-education course.

[expat]

Higher earners should live alongside poorer households to achieve a better mix in housing, a Government-commissioned report said yesterday.

What is "better" about it?

[The Lone Gunman]

This is a great effort of NL to reduce global warming.

If the scrotes only have to nip next door for a new telly or video, or for something to sell to feed their crack habit they won't need to run that rusty blue transit.

[DodgyAgent]

More from the Deadly Torygraph:
And if they won't go and live in sink council estates voluntarily.....

what then is the point of being a higher earner?