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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 14, 2006 13:34:15 GMT
The local council can't rehouse my neighbour who lives in a flat the size of a shoebox with cardboard walls and with her 2 month old baby and is struggling to make ends meet and pay her rent... But they can put down pointless fancy pretty pavements all over town and re-paint every single lamppost on a mile long stretch of road a uniform light grey... OK, I know it's completely different departments and completely different resources used for the two things, but grrrrrr! Government!  |
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Post by frankiegth on Mar 14, 2006 20:39:04 GMT
I think most councils are good at wasting OUR money in ever increasing amounts but, if your neighbour lives in a place "the size of a shoe box" whatever possessed her to have a child.
I don't mean to sound unsympathetic or hard hearted but it is a valid question.
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Post by J Esaj PRA on Mar 14, 2006 22:00:59 GMT
I doubt it was the woman's choice to be living in a shoebox with a child. You need to know the circumstances before you ask that kind of question. Having said that, I'm not sure the council are to blame either, unless they are actively housing less-needy people.
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Post by medibot on Mar 15, 2006 0:02:00 GMT
Looking around Sutton, the qualification for a council house is a bag full of junk food from farmfoods and a ton of expensive designer clothes and being too thick to be employed by anybody if you even bothered looking for a job.
That sounds silly but it is more or less true.
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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 15, 2006 10:25:41 GMT
I think most councils are good at wasting OUR money in ever increasing amounts but, if your neighbour lives in a place "the size of a shoe box" whatever possessed her to have a child. I don't mean to sound unsympathetic or hard hearted but it is a valid question. I don't believe it was her choice to have the child; however it's not my business. That's not relevant because she was told she'd be rehoused before her baby was born. When he was born on January 17, she was told she'd be rehoused by the end of the month and she's still there. |
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 15, 2006 18:19:13 GMT
The local council can't rehouse my neighbour who lives in a flat the size of a shoebox with cardboard walls and with her 2 month old baby and is struggling to make ends meet and pay her rent... But they can put down pointless fancy pretty pavements all over town and re-paint every single lamppost on a mile long stretch of road a uniform light grey... OK, I know it's completely different departments and completely different resources used for the two things, but grrrrrr! Government! It' just a tiny point, my little Sutton biscuit, but do you think you might have preceded the word "Government" with the word "Local"? I doubt whether anyone in Westminster had a great deal to do with the colour of the lampposts in Sutton... |
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Post by medibot on Mar 15, 2006 22:31:16 GMT
She did just say "government" in its on though ISHIAC, not "the government" which generally implies the whole Westminster based hooha, so it might be referring to local government.
I noticed a sign in the newly and pointlessly paved lower part of the High Street in Sutton the other week that very politely pointed out that chewing gum ruins the new paving, i think you can guess what littered the nearby area...
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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 16, 2006 11:39:52 GMT
No, I wasn't referring to the national government...I never said I was! I used the word "government!" in much the same way as you might use the word "women!" You're not talking about every woman in the world or the very concept of womanhood when you say that, because you know you need women to procreate ;D Tongue is in cheek, gentlemen  |
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Post by bonehead on Mar 20, 2006 5:57:53 GMT
A certain council in the E Midlands refused a couple of years ago to permit a certain team in Conf N to build a new stadium on an area once used as a scrapyard because of environmental risks/hazards. Along comes a company with big plans to put up warehouses on the same site, and suddenly the site has no environmental risks/hazards. Discuss
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Post by ojiveojive on Mar 20, 2006 12:11:09 GMT
Money doesn't talk, it SCREAMS. (Bob Dylan circa 1963/4)
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