40 years on.......

Yep - the selling of council house stock - and not being able to replace those sold - is possibly the main cause of the housing problem today.

 

With the division in living standards nowadays there still wouldn’t be enough council housing
Council rent isn’t exactly cheap nowadays,
There are thousands of unused abandoned military houses sat doing nothing,
Using some of them might help,
There is no need for homelessness in this wealthy country,
Like I said if people can pay private rent of stupid amounts and have been paying money into the pockets of rich people
they should be given a mortgage to buy their own homes because if they don’t default on rent
Then why would they default on their mortgages

 

What the government should do with the homeless and people living on the streets is put them into hotels, we have 2 hotels near to us the Effingham park hotel and the copthorne hotel which are being used by the government to house people from far off countries in nice warm rooms

 

How would the miners have reacted when in later years they would close through un clean polluting issues now favoured by a large majority of the British population . You can't buy good coal for your fire anymore its not allowed .
Love the smell of thick yellow coal smoke . That said ...can any of you older ones remember the Pea soupers back in the 60's .
In can remember when visiting our relatives in Blaydon on Tyne not being able to see 15 ft ahead of you .

 

China still uses plenty
I wonder why that is

 

Because they. don't give a s..t about the environment ...but they are beginning to pay the price now .

 

Alex I didn’t say they shouldn’t I pointed out that they should also be housing people who are living on the streets not just the ones who are escaping from the safe country that is France

 

Yes I know
Is there going to be a new coal mine up in Cumbria ?

 

Asylum Seekers…Hmm…Just a question, as I’m confused a little…
Why are all the little boats that come over, only have mainly young adult males on?
I mean…If you are running away from war, you would take your family with you, wouldn’t you?
but if you are going to war, you would leave them at home?
Seems odd to me, or are we all missing something?
Just wondering, mind…

 

To rub it in...
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...abject-poverty-as-pensions-raided-campaigners

 

Because often young males find work easier than women with kids.

They often send money home to support their families.

You have sons, do you believe they should stay and fight wars they didn’t start against enemy’s funded by countries playing global politics, just because they are male and weren’t lucky enough to be born here?

Your ‘just wondering’ posts are nothing of the sort. Please for your own sake do better with your critical thinking….there is no ‘we’ in your ‘are we missing something’ nonsense….just you.

 

No…I am just wondering. I wonder about a lot of things lately, the way the world is changing. An ‘we’, is simply a generalisation.

 

You are putting it so nicely, but I agree with you, Baz.

 

Unfortunately, Thatcher caused my fathers pig farm to close business, due to putting the feed prices up, and the pig prices down. Our animals were litrally being bought, then thrown in the sea. Still hate Thatcher.