Who would you want to be played by in a reconstruction?
Before zooo says anything, I don't think Mark Owen is an actor.
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Quote: Lee @ 29th April 2014, 11:10 AM BSTWho would you want to be played by in a reconstruction?
Before zooo says anything, I don't think Mark Owen is an actor.
I'd like to be played by Charlie Dimmock
Quote: roscoff @ 29th April 2014, 3:32 PM BSTI'd like to be plagued by Charlie Dimmock
You've some dark fantasies Roscoff.
Quote: roscoff @ 29th April 2014, 3:32 PM BSTI'd like to be played with by Charlie Dimmock
Just hope it's a cold day.
"How to get a council house". Such a sad show.
Fact is, London is too expensive for many people to live in now. 
I hate to say it, but if the choice was between being homeless and living elsewhere, I would choose the latter.
I saw the last few minutes. Watched it last week, where they had a lady who'd spent her housing benefit on herself. And was then shocked that she got evicted, when she wouldn't even discuss repaying it.
The government can't be some eternally lactating bosom.
And living in one of the world's most expensive cities, may be a luxury that can't be afforded. Not when everything from elder care to walk in clinics are getting cut.
Now watching Derek, I amuse myself by counting up the number of things that would get that place closed down.
Part of the issue is that many people in London cannot see further than the edge of their borough. Like the alcoholic chap who is outraged to have to move from Tower Hamlets to Loughton. It isn't that far. But when you have been somewhere your whole life it seems like an impossible hurdle.
I would make council tenancies 5 years only. There was a woman on tonight who was rattling around alone in a three bed place. She wants to downsize, but only to a house. The council cannot force her to move, so they were offering her a cash incentive and removal costs just to go. She still wouldn't.
Quote: Jennie @ 30th April 2014, 10:07 PM BSToutraged to have to move from Tower Hamlets to Loughton. It isn't that far. But when you have been somewhere your whole life it seems like an impossible hurdle.
I can totally understand why some people don't want to move, they've got friends, family and a support network all nearby, plus some have kids happily settled in school, a GP they know and trust, they can walk to get everything they need, etc.
The ones I find really perplexing are those who've travelled thousands of miles from Somalia to London but being asked to move another 20 miles is outrageous.
Well there's hardly any actual council housing, I remember when working for housing organisations every few years they knock down some 'orrible estate. The new project would be a mix of private and social and some clients would be dumped back on the HB market. That was under Labour and under Boris it's accelerated with new flats getting sold overseas.
The net result has been councils paying commercial rates for a growing mass of the socially inadequate, the poorly paid and people who think the roads are paved with gold. It's a financial black hole that could still bankrupt the city.
Bloody Thatcher selling the stock was the start of it...
Quote: Jennie @ 30th April 2014, 10:15 PM BSTBloody Thatcher selling the stock was the start of it...
Bloody left wing hypocrites taking Thatcher up on her offer was the success of it.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th April 2014, 10:12 PM BSTI can totally understand why some people don't want to move, they've got friends, family and a support network all nearby, plus some have kids happily settled in school, a GP they know and trust, they can walk to get everything they need, etc.
The ones I find really perplexing are those who've travelled thousands of miles from Somalia to London but being asked to move another 20 miles is outrageous.
Maybe the Somalians have a support network there too?
I didn't say it was unreasonable to want to stay, I said that if the choice was between that and homelessness I would move elsewhere.
Unfortunately, London is like that now and will be for the foreseeable future. Rich people only.
My mum still delights in pointing out what mansions I could own in Nottingham for the price of my two bed flat in London.
Quote: Jennie @ 30th April 2014, 10:15 PM BSTBloody Thatcher selling the stock was the start of it...
Well first of all most of it was shit I don't know many people who weren't happy to swop a damp, crime ridden estate for a nice private landlord.
Then it gave a generation of working class tenants their first real property they owned.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th April 2014, 10:16 PM BSTBloody left wing hypocrites taking Thatcher up on her offer was the success of it.
People are opportunists and will always put their own interests over the good of the majority.
Our politicians shouldn't do that.
Quote: Jennie @ 30th April 2014, 10:19 PM BSTPeople are opportunists and will always put their own interests over the good of the majority.
And then proudly proclaim themselves as socialists in my experience. 