StoneHappyMonday
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You pay me the reparations dear Raas.
I will say this again, slowly. And keep saying it, until it sinks in.
IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. RICH SCUMBAGS ARE THE PROBLEM.Or did you think that the money paid out in housing benefit goes to poor people?
The "housing shortage" (speech marks used because there are actually more homes standing empty than homeless people) is not caused by immigrants; it's caused by greedy landlords charging more in rent than the interest plus repayments on a mortgage. The NHS's difficulties are not caused by immigrants; they are caused by there being too many senior management and not enough front-line staff -- nurses and doctors.
Right. And do you think the housing shortage and NHS difficulties represent the widespread problem, by themselves?! Don't you think there's a bit more to it!?
Do you have any facts/figures/sources/studies to back up your words? it appears not. We're all meant to just trust in your opinion, without questioning it?
I'm out.
For what it's worth, my proposal for housing would be to limit the rent on a property to 75% of the interest (not including repayments) on a typical 25-year mortgage on that property. You can claim rent for as long as a building stands; but a mortgage is paid off after 25 years. I would also create an offence of making a person homeless under any but the most extreme circumstances (problem tenants do exist, but problem landlords are worse).
I would also deal with MPs' expenses by building a block of flats in London for the use of MPs while away from their constituencies -- and anything like a big TV with surround sound speakers that they buy with public money stays behind with the flat, when they move out.
And of course the flipside of the coin...
Hundreds of thousands of people come here and rape the shit out of our county... make cash businesses because the strength of the pound is strong...cheat on tax, send it to their own countries so they and relatives can live like kings in their own counties etc etc
Rape is an act committed without consent, your shitty metaphor makes no sense (and your commas offend me)Problem to me seems,Morality is something for governments to discern. Everyone else, plays by their rules. If you let people rape you, they'll do it.
No -- that's when they start earningWhat if a landlord owes nothing on their investment property? They charge no rent?
Another thought: It is EU law that lets you bring in as much booze and as many fags as you like, as long as the duty was paid when they were bought. After Brexit, we will be allowed to impose import restrictions again.
The Government aren't going to pass up an opportunity to stop anyone enjoying a drink and a smoke, now, are they?
Problem to me seems,
Morality is something for governments to discern. Everyone else, plays by their rules. If you let people rape you, they'll do it.
Rape is an act committed without consent, your shitty metaphor makes no sense (and your commas offend me)
What the actual living fuck?But with people around the world coming here, plundering towns with cash businesses, cheating tax with all the cash money, sending it back to their own countries while our local economies are drained... thanks to previous governments and being dictated by Brussel's, there's not much we can do about it!..
No. Farage, Trump et al have managed to convince people that the situation is so bad that it's time to resort to competition over co-operation. (When it gets that bad, one fat caveman has a better chance of passing on his genes than two thin cavemen.) So people turn and pick on the most vulnerable in society -- the exact ones they should be helping.Perhaps this is why people are veering towards figures like Trump and Farage. Because, as controversial as they are, at least they appear to have the balls to do something about this awful abuse of our countries economy while previous governments turn a blind eye.
Its funny how sometimes we are this Great Mighty Nation who doesn't need the EU and can function on our own, and others we are some weak timid nation that can't handle a bunch of Poles coming here and forming businesses.
What the actual living fuck?
You are picking the wrong target. A few people living out the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet lifestyle "in reverse" and sending a little money home are not the problem.