BBC news at 1.57

Steve Thackery wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

Bill you are becoming paranoid,
No I'm not.

Yes, you are. At least you sound like it, unless you were joking (it's
hard to tell with this kind of communication).
On balance I wouldn't have thought the audio problems were deliberate,
but you never know. It only takes one silly person doesn't it?

As far as I'm concerned she did some good things and some bad things.
What I hate her for, though, is her autocratic style. She's the
closest we've had to an elected dictator.
She operated cabinet government like any PM. At the time the country was
in a mess and needed a strong leader.

Bill

critcher wrote:

people bought into their parents houses and effectively took those
houses off the market for low earners.It is good to get people into
owner/occupation but not at the expense of affordable housing to the
masses of people in this country who are now unable to get accomodation,
The housing shortage is the result of Labour's policy of filling the
country with immigrants.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
critcher wrote:

people bought into their parents houses and effectively took
those houses off the market for low earners.It is good to get people
into owner/occupation but not at the expense of affordable housing
to the masses of people in this country who are now unable to get
accomodation,

The housing shortage is the result of Labour's policy of filling the
country with immigrants. Bill

The housing shortage is the result of Thatcher selling off council housing
stock and forbidding councils to use the money to build more.

Gordon brown in 2004 promised to reverse that policy, but once the
Treasury had a stern word with him he forgot all about that.

e.g. Watford council 10 years ago under Noo Labour pressure sold off
it's council stock to a housing association. As they weren't allowed to
build more they spent the money on a sports stadium and a new swimming pool.

Nowhere to live, but you can get fit for the park bench you'll sleep on

Brighton council held out against the pressure to sell it's 12,000 council
homes to a HA and Noo Labour punished them in 2006 by withholding £10M in
grants

The Treasury encouraged Thatcher's housing policy and have enforced it
on every Gov since

Steve Terry
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David Kennedy wrote:
On 08/04/2013 23:13, Steve Terry wrote:
Martin wrote:
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:56:59 +0100, Graham. wrote:

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:10 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Interference on audio again, during David Cameron's tribute.

Don't tell me he's dead as well.

Hallelujah a miracle!

Don't wish for that, his successor might stand a better chance of
winning the next election!
Cameron, IDS, and Tory Boy Hague are Labours best assets
Steve Terry

You may well be right...
:-(

I just wish that I (or anyone I've ever met for that matter) had _any_
confidence on what they'll do if they get in. Seems to me it will be
more of the same old same.

They are all the same property owning representative Parties, just with
different colours

As UKIP have a different Dogma, i'll probably vote for them

Steve Terry
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Steve Terry wrote:

The housing shortage is the result of Labour's policy of filling the
country with immigrants. Bill

The housing shortage is the result of Thatcher selling off council housing
stock and forbidding councils to use the money to build more.
But at the time other social housing organisations were building, and
some councils were in partnership with them. Also the building of
private housing continued; in fact it increased. All Thatch did was
swing the balance from public to private housing.

Bill

On 09/04/2013 02:59, Steve Terry wrote:
David Kennedy wrote:
On 08/04/2013 23:13, Steve Terry wrote:
Martin wrote:
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:56:59 +0100, Graham. wrote:

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:10 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Interference on audio again, during David Cameron's tribute.

Don't tell me he's dead as well.

Hallelujah a miracle!

Don't wish for that, his successor might stand a better chance of
winning the next election!
Cameron, IDS, and Tory Boy Hague are Labours best assets
Steve Terry

You may well be right...
:-(

I just wish that I (or anyone I've ever met for that matter) had _any_
confidence on what they'll do if they get in. Seems to me it will be
more of the same old same.

They are all the same property owning representative Parties, just with
different colours

As UKIP have a different Dogma,

So did David Sutch...

i'll probably vote for them

Steve Terry


Yep. Won't it be great when all those ex-pats get shipped back here from
all over Europe?

Let's just hope the rest of the world doesn't catch on.

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

On 09/04/2013 02:12, Bill Wright wrote:
critcher wrote:

people bought into their parents houses and effectively took those
houses off the market for low earners.It is good to get people into
owner/occupation but not at the expense of affordable housing to the
masses of people in this country who are now unable to get accomodation,
The housing shortage is the result of Labour's policy of filling the
country with immigrants.

Bill
Christ. Are there no theatrical agents in that part of the world who can
use your talent?

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

critcher wrote:

people bought into their parents houses and effectively took those
houses off the market for low earners.It is good to get people into
owner/occupation but not at the expense of affordable housing to the masses
of people in this country who are now unable to get accomodation,
The housing shortage is the result of Labour's policy of filling the country
with immigrants.

Bill

The Labour Party did not even exist when this started :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival...ants_in_London

On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 23:13:03 +0100, "Steve Terry"
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:56:59 +0100, Graham. wrote:

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:10 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Interference on audio again, during David Cameron's tribute.

Don't tell me he's dead as well.

Hallelujah a miracle!

Don't wish for that, his successor might stand a better chance of winning
the next election!

Cameron, IDS, and Tory Boy Hague are Labours best assets

You forgot Osborne and Clegg.

Clegg is an irrelevence - he will lose his seat at the next election.

On 09/04/2013 10:49, alanp wrote:
critcher wrote:

people bought into their parents houses and effectively took
those houses off the market for low earners.It is good to get people
into owner/occupation but not at the expense of affordable housing to
the masses of people in this country who are now unable to get
accomodation,
The housing shortage is the result of Labour's policy of filling the
country with immigrants.

Bill

The Labour Party did not even exist when this started :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival...ants_in_London


Funny that, I was wondering how Polish builders were causing a housing
shortage...