Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Has 'slate off' got something to do with pikies and church roofs?

TANK - Credibility scuppered LOL

All,

obviously an emotive subject from whichever side of the fence you sit on, please keep it from personal stuff.

Thanks

Ian

Where's Harry Hill? :-)

ah well ian, there are some who sit with the paling stuck up firmly up their fundament ..... mind you, i guess that keeps them and their opinions balanced

Cynic,

That is why there is shortage of housing for low income families to rent and why some are paying exorbitant rents of "subsidy from the tax payers" into the hands of smaller group of people "landlords".

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Maggie,

Some of the institutions (Public Schools) appear like Borstal Schools of old and probably are the correct housing for some offspring,

(Maybe, a suitable reformatory for the parents as well.)

I suppose having a child is performing their duty to the line of descent.

8-)

I dunno where Harry is, Skinners.

PS. There's only one 'l' in my name.

:o)

Ian, are you trespassing into family problems?

8-)

:-)

No Fred I mean schools, Where teachers who cannot (are not allowed to) discipline let alone indoctrinate are basically blamed for every thing that goes wrong with children. eg rising teenage mothers, falling academic standards, rising drug abuse, etc. A lot of parents only want their children 'babysat' and definitely not disciplined or asked to do anything difficult like homework.
GF you did not offend me one bit and no govt helped me I paid my mortgage, rates, taxes, NI etc. Like most working people.
Right enough, must go as minding grandchildren so that my children can go to work to pay mortgage, rates, taxes, NI etc and no they don't get child credit cos I'm not a registered child minder! Sorry rant over!

"L", has no fury like a woman's curse.

fred council houses should never have been sold it was the start of the problems
and the low paid are the sufferers . and coursed the bubble to burst

M4.

No real offence meant to you, but you are a big girl.

I was teasing you, but mainly others.

But I do tend to see the use of "boarding schools" as analogous to what I posted.

Also, I see that there is a necessity for such institutions, for reasons other than just a social convenience.

fred - how unlike you to be simplistic! .....
1) how much boarded up local housing is there?
an awful lot and perhaps you can tell us exactly how much

2) most (i think) new housing development comes with an insistence that there is a stipulated % of so-called starter homes

3) how much derelict housing is there that could be refurbished an awful lot cheaper than building on greenbelt?

4) am i not correct in thinking that there are now a number of schemes that allow people to acquire such properties on very generous terms on the precondition that they refurbish the house

5) landlords are not necessarily greedy with the rental they charge, and assuredly that rental level is dictated by the market

6) if you are a landlord and charging say £500 pm for your house - cheap by southern standards - you may get £750-1000 deposit against tenant default and damage. How much damage gets covered by even £1000? .... virtually none ..... being a landlord is not strawberries and champagne and in fact is often considerably less than a pie and a pint

I am looking to buy old council flats will buy two in a block
then i am going to put the new migrants in them and will drive out some tennants
and will get the rest cheaper .
going to start my buying in hereford that is were the cheap labour is wanted
should be good for rents 5 or 6 to a flat

Schooling.

If subsequent governments would leave education alone and for the changes already made to settle down, then education may improve.

The constant policies and goal changes have handcuffed and demoralised the teaching profession.

There should be a simplified National curriculum to be attained to by children, which teaching staff should operate within, but allows them to vary their teaching according to the "needs" f children in their care.

They are a profession and should be respected for that.

Some people are celebrating !!! Cameron should wake up.

fred - almost as an aside, ask your local school how easy (hahaha!) it is to get rid of bad teachers

Cynic,

You are again appearing deliberately obtuse.

1) DYOH. But question why it is boarded up. (May be the impending end to a bubble which hasn’t its final prick.

2) Check how many “starter” homes are being built and the cost and availability of those “mortgages”.

3) Agree, there are possibilities for this, but I believe projects in the north of the country similar to your suggestion have come to a halt. (Many, householders stuck in demoralise dilapidated areas.)

4) and 5) Her royal highness would say market for
ces are at work. This exposes one of problems with application of “pure” market forces.


You may be a little brighter than some and “know how” to survive in the market place, but there are many honest, hard working individuals who have contributed and still contribute to the overall wealth of the country who do not have your skills. Their needs should be considered not abused.
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"All,

obviously an emotive subject from whichever side of the fence you sit on."

Ian a little story,

If you sit either side of the fence you could well end up with a damp or very cold bum, I once tried sitting "on" the fence but found it not to my liking.. Bit like being middle of the road, didn't exactly go a bundle on that either as I got knocked down twice.. in one day!

So stood on my own to feet in the end.. and got done for jay walking!

The moral of this story is never ever vote for the "Con" party as you will always sooner or later regret it

.. Cynic get back to work you skiveing employer.