| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re: Skyscraper Planned by Chiswick Roundabout | |
| Posted by: | Paul Tucker | |
| Date/Time: | 29/05/26 10:17:00 |
“Do you watch the news or read a newspaper? What other countries do is not relevant.” Perhaps the newspapers and media are just bent on catastrophising issues. It’s what they get paid to do! And yes, what other countries do is TOTALLY relevant! You need to look beyond your little closed world. We have a self inflicted housing crisis because we’ve got things terribly WRONG. Started with Thatcher’s unforgivable and ridiculous idea to allow Council tenants to buy their properties for peanuts. Those people should have paid market rates and Thatcher should have made it clear that social housing would be phased out. It was obvious that after just ‘giving away’ council houses there would be a shortage of you wanted to continue with any type of social housing scheme. The social housing scheme has been the slow death of this country and Labours plans to build another 1.5 million before the end of this parliament is just the coup de grâce. We definitely need to follow the lead of other successful European countries and get rid of social housing. We are failures, they aren’t. Meanwhile despite what the castrophising media would have you believe, in Richmond the restaurants and pubs and coffee shops are full of customers. Hospitality can’t get enough staff and youngsters are talking about their £25k bonuses. Oh, and one teacher who has lived with her parents for 5 years since qualifying, proudly announced that she has saved £60k as a deposit on a flat she is buying. It’s not all doom and gloom. People have money and people can get jobs and save despite what the media will have you believe . All this government has to do is radically cut back on benefits and social housing to get Britain working and on its feet again. This government doesn’t have the political will to do so. We need radical change. |