tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post304990285192663008..comments2024-03-29T11:13:00.338+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: 'Nasty Party' Vs 'Irresponsible Party'...JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-27121213737670429502011-06-25T09:31:07.755+01:002011-06-25T09:31:07.755+01:00Lambeth has become a shithole?Lambeth has <i>become</i> a shithole?Robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-79782112778403745442011-06-25T05:33:16.673+01:002011-06-25T05:33:16.673+01:00"..(it probably doesn't even have a Waitr...<i>"..(it probably doesn't even have a Waitrose, for goodness sake!"</i> <br /><br />Why, it's hardly even civilisation at all!<br /><br /><i>"The 'wonderful' Chinese Politburo has an even more fantastic model - they have 64 million unoccupied apartments (including 12 ghost cities) 'boosting' their GDP whilst families live almost 'hot-bunking' as in submarines."</i> <br /><br />Hmmm, what's that verse from the Bible about 'building your house on sand'? Sums up this situation to a t.<br /><br /><i>"I can not afford to live in Kingston.<br /><br />Why should I pay for others to do so?"</i> <br /><br />Spot on.<br /><br /><i>"BTW Anyone else catch Deborah Orr's whine in there about what a sh1thole her home manor of Lambeth has become ? Balm to the soul."</i><br /><br />Oh, yes! And yet, curiously, she seemed unable to pin any blame, despite flailing around wildly with it. <br /><br />I bet when she played 'Pin the Tail on the Donkey' as a child, they didn't even need to blindfold her...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-9167729263360824432011-06-24T21:05:31.798+01:002011-06-24T21:05:31.798+01:00Expecting the taxpayer to fund your kids is a bit ...Expecting the taxpayer to fund your kids is a bit like going into a pub and expecting everybody there to buy your beer.ReefKnotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-56865217599241235772011-06-24T20:23:26.549+01:002011-06-24T20:23:26.549+01:00I've known Tom since he was at uni with me (I ...I've known Tom since he was at uni with me (I was the token Tory in a class of 12, 4 of whom went on to work for the last Labour government).<br /><br />Lovely man, kind and generous to a fault. <br /><br />Doesn't stop him being dead wrong though!Charlesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-87004811890013966212011-06-24T19:02:02.907+01:002011-06-24T19:02:02.907+01:00Well, since the Guardian is losing money hand over...Well, since the Guardian is losing money hand over fist and is only propped up by the arch example of capaitalism that is the Auto Trader mag, he'll have something else to worry about soon.<br /><br />So maybe he's getting his whining in early.<br /><br />BTW Anyone else catch Deborah Orr's whine in there about what a sh1thole her home manor of Lambeth has become ? Balm to the soul.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-10930896961765594802011-06-24T17:12:35.297+01:002011-06-24T17:12:35.297+01:00"allcoppedout said...
Most of us, anon, ..."allcoppedout said...<br /><br /> Most of us, anon, are still living in houses built where the jobs used to be, almost in a diagonal from Glasgow to London (admittedly double dog-legged). I wonder how many Manchester salaries it takes to keep an immigrant dole-blodger with 6 kids in Kingston?"<br />Good question. Of course one way of improving things in places with empty houses would be to fill the houses with pro single mums and give the savings to the local council to reduce local bussiness rates or squander as the locals preferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-41095480223594127582011-06-24T16:49:37.926+01:002011-06-24T16:49:37.926+01:00Most of us, anon, are still living in houses built...Most of us, anon, are still living in houses built where the jobs used to be, almost in a diagonal from Glasgow to London (admittedly double dog-legged). I wonder how many Manchester salaries it takes to keep an immigrant dole-blodger with 6 kids in Kingston?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-48297074418772960072011-06-24T16:21:43.487+01:002011-06-24T16:21:43.487+01:00I can not afford to live in Kingston.
Why should I...I can not afford to live in Kingston.<br />Why should I pay for others to do so?<br /><br />"Does Mr Clark spare a thought for the pain inflicted on these people by a housing market overheated by the handouts which their taxes fund?"<br />Very funny. I think the chances of that are zero.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-83409790663902949322011-06-24T14:59:21.181+01:002011-06-24T14:59:21.181+01:00The housing bubble has been created by giving bank...The housing bubble has been created by giving banks money Mr Grumpy and their greed to make money make money through speculation instead of work has produced the current situation. The 'wonderful' Chinese Politburo has an even more fantastic model - they have 64 million unoccupied apartments (including 12 ghost cities) 'boosting' their GDP whilst families live almost 'hot-bunking' as in submarines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-56960074031468905222011-06-24T14:47:30.621+01:002011-06-24T14:47:30.621+01:00I suspect you miss the real economic arguments Jul...I suspect you miss the real economic arguments Julia, though the nerks at the Groan always need your dissuading shotgun. <br />Work is so marginally related to pay these days there is no point in urging it. You probably do more work entertaining us here than I get out of one class in three over a module.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-55535534948388649762011-06-24T14:18:51.693+01:002011-06-24T14:18:51.693+01:00More on Tolworth: my research reveals that 4-bedro...More on Tolworth: my research reveals that 4-bedroom houses there start at around £400k. To afford the mortgage out of a take-home income of £26,000, you'd have to give up eating, never mind basic utilities.<br /><br />So in fact Mr Clark does distinguish between the deserving and the undeserving - it's just that in his book you become deserving by not working.Mr Grumpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317128956060393033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-77962797976908475802011-06-24T13:49:31.188+01:002011-06-24T13:49:31.188+01:00I do love the lordly reference to "the scrag ...I do love the lordly reference to "the scrag end of Kingston". True, Tolworth is less than glamorous and clearly not the kind of place where an egalitarian like Mr Clark would dream of living (it probably doesn't even have a Waitrose, for goodness sake!). It is, however, 31 minutes from Waterloo, and as such full of industrious people struggling to afford accommodation at a sensible distance from their work. Plus those people's children. Does Mr Clark spare a thought for the pain inflicted on <i>these</i> people by a housing market overheated by the handouts which their taxes fund?Mr Grumpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317128956060393033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-84295847202854536192011-06-24T13:06:18.144+01:002011-06-24T13:06:18.144+01:00If a man does not work, then he shall not eat.
2 ...If a man does not work, then he shall not eat.<br /><br />2 Thessalonians 3 v 10<br /><br />Dead simple.English Vikinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03144810217381651105noreply@blogger.com