Thursday 4 November 2010

What society thinks of me

Some of the comments from the article I wrote (I didn't mention my "sense of entitlement" by the way...):

Stigmum's asking that I and people like me be forced to pay for the secure home for her child and that if we don't want to, she demands that our homes and our possessions be taken away by force and that we be incarcerated.
I've been boggling at this all day. I just don't understand where she gets her sense of entitlement.


Try not paying the taxes that Stigmum wants to subsidise her nice new home.

This is what happens when you make yourself so helpless you're completely reliant on the government for everything. A bit of self-reliance goes a long way. Working people have enough trouble paying their own mortgage and rent, they can't be expected to pay other people's. The sense of entitlement is breathtaking.
Btw, housing benefit is an abomination, increasing rents and property prices for the benefit of landlords, at the expense of working people.


it is true there is a dearth of social housing left available in central london but those who qualify turn it down for the stupidest reasons " there is not a place to park my bicycle" i must have sky tv etc etc.. the ones who went in private rented were given town houses, waterside apartmants etc, way out of the reach of working folk.. the result was, and i am afraid to agree with the daily mail, but benefits babes could get rent free housing in central london well out of the reach of working familes. the true victims of the housing crisis are those having to pay their own rent because they are working. free luxury accommadation in central london is readily available for homeless familes. this has to change. working people are penalised in favour of people like Stigmum who have several options presented to them by the state.

Fortunately a few people understood:

Mr Cameron et al. no idea about how the world works - how does he expect to build the Big Society when people like Stigmum have no security in their homes and the cannot be certain if they will be living in the same area in 6 months time? or perhaps those living in rented accommodation don't have anything to contribute!

At least give her somewhere decent to rent.
The trouble is that renting here is a nightmare: you can be evicted on the whim of a landlord within six months (fortunately most courts take a dim view of evictions so long as the tenant is not anti-social and has been paying the rent on time).
In Europe, there is greater security for the tenant.
The bottom line is that apart from defence and financial services, this country doesn`t have much of an income (please add other examples if I`ve missed anything - which I probably have!) The housing bubble is one fo the things that is an indicator of the financial health of the UK - not good.
Until a government takes the bull by the horns and tries to remedy housing problems, this situation will go on and on and on. Whatever the ins and outs are nobody should be facing homelessness.

Unless you have really hit rockbottom you will never have sympathy with the people who decline first into the private rented market, (don't even think about it, if you get benefits they soon chase you out into the worst areas where nobody with any sense would want to live in the worst part of social housing). I don't know where the goverment gets the information from that all who are on benefits can cope.The benefits system allows you too survive, nothing more.

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