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Kicking the poor again

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Ryoko · 21/10/2010 13:03

Right after reading the budget I need a good rant and I've not been on here in months so here goes.

Council Housing rent to increase for new tenants to 80% of the going market rent. are they mad, this is the end of Social housing by the back door, the Condem tossers should have just been honest (I know thats not a word they understand) and said right we are going to sell off all the housing stock and all you serfs will have to go out and get better jobs or live on the street, (next year they will be introducing a new bill to make homeless dossing illegal and chuck everyone in prison who happens to be poor, followed by the introduction of work houses).

And while they single handedly pull the rug out from under the feet of the poor (the only stop gap between them and the gutter) they ring fence the Overseas Aid budget that goes to such desperately in need countries as Russia, China and India, if you can afford massive armies and nukes you can feed your own damn poor people you tossers.

I'm sick to death of toff politician scum, lining the pockets of themselves and their mates at the expensive of the workingman/woman and the underclass who can't get a job for love nor money and are universally used as the nations punch bag to blame for everything.

When the hell are we going to grow a damn spine and take our country back off of those scum bags, they are meant to work for us, not themselves and there damn greed, bunch of tax dodging, expensives grabbing scumbags.

Guy Fawkes had the right idea and we haven't had a good riot since the Poll Tax, bout time for a good old fashioned uprising Angry

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northernrock · 21/10/2010 19:08
Grin
northernrock · 21/10/2010 19:31

And another thing:

The Condems keep going on about how we have this defecit and it just has to be paid off.

Weeell, yes, but so quickly and at the expense of everything else?

Think of your household accounts.
Sure, that 3 grand credit card has to be paid off, and you would be foolish to only pay the minimum.

You want to pay a good chuck of it ever moth and reduce it so that your household expenses gradually get easier to manage.

What you don't do is stop paying your rent and bills so you can clear hte credit card asap. Sure the interest on the credit card is high, but you must also live and keep a roof over your head.

Although I guess if the people suffering aren't you, maybe it makes perfect sense.Hmm

northernrock · 21/10/2010 19:33

I meant chunk every month...dam that n..

CommanderGhoul · 21/10/2010 19:44

I remeber telling DP's younger brother (26) that before Thatcher it was rare to see people on the streets.

He could not believe me.

I have vivid memories of walking through Waterloo with my mum and dad, aged about 9, and seeing hundreds of young people sleeping in cardboard boxes.

Before, you would see 'gentlemen of the road,' types around (we found one asleep in our front garden) but not on the scale of the 80's.

We accept so much poverty now.

tokyonambu · 21/10/2010 20:55

"You want to pay a good chuck of it ever moth and reduce it so that your household expenses gradually get easier to manage."

You appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that a deficit is a debt. It's not. It's a month in and month out difference between revenue and outgoings. At the moment, we are borrowing a large portion of the money the government pays out. In your example, it's payhing the rent and household expenses by borrowing yet more money on the credit card.

northernrock · 21/10/2010 21:12

No, I am really nottokyonumbu.

My outgoings are more than my revenue. But I have to pay this payment on my credit card or I will be in even more serious shit.

As I pay it gradually ( still running a deficit) I will gradually get on a more even keel.

I am technically paying the rent and household expenses by borrowing yet more money on the credit card-BUT at a lower and lower rate every month.

moondog · 21/10/2010 21:24

'We accept so much poverty now.'

Eh???
How so exactly?
Poverty my arse.
Noone in the UK knows the meaning of the word.

ilovemydogandMrObama · 21/10/2010 22:01

You in Bangladesh, moondog? Or is it summer you go for a month?

CommanderGhoul · 21/10/2010 22:10

Moondog

Come to Possil or Shettleston and you will see appalling poverty.

Should we just think, Oh well, the starving baby's screaming in the buggy while dad's sleeping off his heroin haze, but fuck it, people are homeless in Bangladesh???

Are you in poverty in Bangladesh? Have you ever lived in poverty in the UK?

CommanderGhoul · 21/10/2010 22:11

It's not a competition IIRC

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