• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

  • You are not logged in. If you are already registered, fill in the form below to log in, or follow the "Sign Up" link to register a new account.
  • You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
  • If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Previously on "Coming over here and taking our houses"

Collapse

  • Mich the Tester
    replied
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    why don't you tell me? You seem to have all the answers.
    No, I just asked some questions. You said 'it's amazing how many asylum seekers go back for holidays'. I asked how many, you said you know 3 families; isn't it reasonable to want to know the details of their circumstances before claiming they're going back for holidays?

    Leave a comment:


  • vetran
    replied
    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    3; wow, that is indeed amazing. Now, are they 'asylum seekers' or have they already gained 'leave to remain'? Have the circumstances in their countries of origin changed since they gained right to remain or since they 'integrated' into British society?
    why don't you tell me? You seem to have all the answers.

    Leave a comment:


  • Mich the Tester
    replied
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    I personally know of 3 families.

    Obviously anecdotal but I suspect if we did a correlation between status & travel it might be interesting.
    3; wow, that is indeed amazing. Now, are they 'asylum seekers' or have they already gained 'leave to remain'? Have the circumstances in their countries of origin changed since they gained right to remain or since they 'integrated' into British society?

    Leave a comment:


  • vetran
    replied
    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    How many?
    I personally know of 3 families.

    Obviously anecdotal but I suspect if we did a correlation between status & travel it might be interesting.

    Leave a comment:


  • Mich the Tester
    replied
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    It's amazing how many asylum seekers go back for holidays.
    How many?

    Leave a comment:


  • vetran
    replied
    Originally posted by mantis View Post
    Idiot - do you think that everybody here is on benefits because they want to be? Maybe they would have rather stayed in their own country but feared for their lives?

    For the record, I am a White British male - probably classified as middle class it that matter to you.

    UKIP is calling you I guess, the usual way of the thick Tory who is too scared to come out of the closet and go full on BNP.
    why am I an idiot?

    EU migrants are purely economic.
    Asylum seekers have mainly passed through safe countries to arrive here, therefore they are economic migrants (otherwise they would have stopped at the first safe country).
    Some Benefit claimants may not wish to be there but so many who do - yes I know a few.

    It's amazing how many asylum seekers go back for holidays.

    I'm glad you feel good about paying tax so it can be wasted. Pity you can only resort to name calling and pathetic insults when you disagree.

    oops the sockie squad have made an arrest!

    Leave a comment:


  • d000hg
    replied
    Oh look, one post in the professional forums in September to get the account authorised, and a few months later the sleeper comes to life, suspiciously soon after some other idiots were banned, wading into arguments.

    Leave a comment:


  • mantis
    replied
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    Good for you, unfortunately the majority have had enough of paying for everyone else. We aren't talking about the disabled, the elderly or the less intelligent British born & bred unable or unwilling to get a job. These are people who left their own country to make a quick buck from your pocket, we have enough people to support already.

    Can I pop round & kip on your sofa when I'm down your way? Don't mind if I bring some friends? I'm too tight to pay for a hotel, but I'll charge my mates £20 each for organising it. While I'm down there can you stock up on baby food, so I can take it home? Ta!

    what a nice guy!
    Idiot - do you think that everybody here is on benefits because they want to be? Maybe they would have rather stayed in their own country but feared for their lives?

    For the record, I am a White British male - probably classified as middle class it that matter to you.

    UKIP is calling you I guess, the usual way of the thick Tory who is too scared to come out of the closet and go full on BNP.

    Leave a comment:


  • vetran
    replied
    Originally posted by mantis View Post
    Feels like I'm reading the Daily Mail here - there are people in this country who need benefits and I for one am proud that I live in a country where I can contribute to society - and that includes paying taxes.
    Good for you, unfortunately the majority have had enough of paying for everyone else. We aren't talking about the disabled, the elderly or the less intelligent British born & bred unable or unwilling to get a job. These are people who left their own country to make a quick buck from your pocket, we have enough people to support already.

    Can I pop round & kip on your sofa when I'm down your way? Don't mind if I bring some friends? I'm too tight to pay for a hotel, but I'll charge my mates £20 each for organising it. While I'm down there can you stock up on baby food, so I can take it home? Ta!

    what a nice guy!

    Leave a comment:


  • mantis
    replied
    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    Of course all those on benefits actually need them. Not one is a scrounger. There are no open jobs available.

    I love living in a country where my taxes go to benefits for anyone that asks for them. Even the foreigners who just arrived.
    Then bugger off to another county that fits your needs.

    Leave a comment:


  • eek
    replied
    Originally posted by Zippy View Post
    Jesus H! Yet another load of bulltulip from the CUK massive.

    The bloke doesn't want benefit claimants and that is, as has been pointed out, a business decision. Not one based on his tenants (of which I am sure there are many) who do pay on time, rather on those who do not (or may not) pay on time.
    Now, landlords have always had the legal power to evict people who don't pay. But what about the ones who do? Where are they going to live? Oh yes - the council will have to find them somewhere if they have kids. Where does the money for that come from? Catching on yet?
    Wake up you utter bunch of sheep. This bloke is maximising his profits at the expense of your tax bills. Or pay your fecking cleaners/care home workers/bin collectors/bar staff/<other working poor> enough to fund their rent bill. Your choice (I've made mine).
    We stop letting to those on housing benefit as soon as we no longer get paid directly via the council.... That was circa 2004....

    Leave a comment:


  • BrilloPad
    replied
    Originally posted by mantis View Post
    Feels like I'm reading the Daily Mail here - there are people in this country who need benefits and I for one am proud that I live in a country where I can contribute to society - and that includes paying taxes.
    Of course all those on benefits actually need them. Not one is a scrounger. There are no open jobs available.

    I love living in a country where my taxes go to benefits for anyone that asks for them. Even the foreigners who just arrived.

    Leave a comment:


  • mantis
    replied
    Feels like I'm reading the Daily Mail here - there are people in this country who need benefits and I for one am proud that I live in a country where I can contribute to society - and that includes paying taxes.

    Leave a comment:


  • northernladyuk
    replied
    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    I don't rent to people on benefits. Two reasons, one they don't have any concept of work / money, two if you have to live on benefits then you dont have any respect for yourself let alone my properties.
    You'll rent to anyone with enough loose change for a can of cider.

    Leave a comment:


  • MarillionFan
    replied
    Originally posted by Zippy View Post
    No. I dropped the cheque behind the mountain of Special Brew empties.
    Ah. You had Xmas with TestMangler. How nice.

    Leave a comment:

Working...
X