[Sledgehead]

Watch it now in case she says more, but at last we see a young person talking about money, debt and the cost of housing.

Says she has been selling records for a couple of years and can't afford a one bed flat in London and that is why they give up.

Says you go past a EA window and it says 450K for a flat and alarm bells go off that the house, the car, the family just aren't gonna happen - you give up b4 you start.

Asked what she would do about it : "Put a ban on people buying more than 3 properties!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And what did Portillo, Abbot and Neil keep rabbitting about? Teenage pregnancy and violence! They basically ignored her.

[Smell the Fear]

Sledgehead, on Feb 22 2007, 11:51 PM, said:

Watch it now in case she says more, but at last we see a yiung person talking about money, debt and the cost of housing.

Says she has been selling records for a coupl eof years and can't agfford a one bed flat in London and that is why they give up.

Says you go past a EA window and it says 450K for a flat and alarm bells go off that the house, the car, the family just aren't gonna happen - you give up b4 you start.

And she brought it up AGAIN and AGAIN and those c*nts studiously ignored the elephant in the the room. She ended by saying she would like to ban people from owning more than 3 houses.

Yet those 3 fat boomer scumbags just ignored it, I really think they are so stupid that they just don't get it. This country is sick.

But well done Lily Allen.

[Pete]

I saw it - she was excellent.
I love the way the elders refused to get drawn on the housing issue specifically - pompous arses. Single biggest wealth transfer from young to old ever - no comment.

[paulm]

Yeah I just saw this too. Maybe she could be the face of house price crash

Get her to drop the website address in one of her songs...

"Whenever you see me
You say that you want me back
But now we need a house price crash
Yeah a house price crash"

[Sledgehead]

Smell the Fear, on Feb 22 2007, 11:56 PM, said:

And she brought it up AGAIN and AGAIN and those c*nts studiously ignored the elephant in the the room. She ended by saying she would like to ban people from owning more than 3 houses.

Yet those 3 fat boomer scumbags just ignored it, I really think they are so stupid that they just don't get it. This country is sick.

But well done Lily Allen.

It was absolutely unbelieveable and exactly as you describe: invite in a young person (hey, perhaps we'll get cred by assoc) and then carry on our own conversation.

If you have a myspace account go invite her here @ lilymusic' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow'>http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic

[Smell the Fear]

Pete, on Feb 22 2007, 11:58 PM, said:

I saw it - she was excellent.
I love the way the elders refused to get drawn on the housing issue specifically - pompous arses. Single biggest wealth transfer from young to old ever - no comment.

The housing situation explains so much: later marriages, fewer kids, hopeless youth shooting each other on the streets. It's a disgrace and shows that this country is populated by feral adults, tearing the flesh from each others bones to make themselves feel better.

Look at what some European countries have - governments that stay out of ridiculous oil wars, decent housing, less materialism. Can we blame the second world war for this? Did they learn the value of peace and equality following the destruction and upheaval of the war, whilst Britain was relatively sheltered, and emerged with an arrogant swagger as victors?

[bpw]

The PBS radio station here in the USA had segment on a recent finding that Britains youngsters are the most abused and depressed youngsters in Europe.

........It’s official! Britain has the most badly behaved, promiscuous and dangerous youngsters in Europe. That is the general opinion of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a think tank whose recent investigation into British teenage culture worrying concluded that: ‘Commentators fear that British youth is on the verge of mental breakdown, at risk from anti-social behaviour, self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse. These concerns are, to an extent, borne out.’ This news had prompted a flurry of media attention and has caused many to question and hypothesise why exactly our youngsters are so bad.

The problems they refer to apply to young teens through to violent, antisocial twenty-somethings. British grandparents not only want to have the good life - at your expense - they couldnt be bothered to nurture sociable and happy children while they were at it. If you compare the behavior of kids in Holland with those in Britain its clear your parents have taken too much out of the system. The behaviors described above are a 'just dessert' for people to want unpaid for

• health and dental care
  
• final salary pensions
  
• state pensions
  
• escalated house prices
  
• income from buy to let
  
• unsustainable gains off investments during the 80s and 90s which were unknowingly protected by their kids
  
• lower taxes
  
• free education

And what do you get? You get to pay for

• private health care plans
  
• private pension scandals
  
• a diminising pension fund which is unsustainable
  
• exhorbitant house prices (or your forced to rent from a BTL)
  
• a flat equities market for 6 years
  
• spiralling taxes
  
• tuition fees

In the end you get what you deserve (I hope) so keep up the bad behavior and get your own back in whatever way you can. You must fight the hogs or flee the country if you want a fair future.

This post has been edited by bpw: 23 February 2007 - 12:23 AM

[Pluto]

Lilly Allen is excellent. Listen carefully to the lyrics of her single LDN. She knows London that is for sure.

Good for you Lilly!

[Smell the Fear]

Charlie The Tramp, on Feb 23 2007, 12:11 AM, said:

Maybe they should have commented on this talking about violence committed by the young.

The Thugs Of Eastbourne

You're looking at the effects Charlie, not the cause. These kids have little to live for, and I suspect they know who is to blame.

edit: I didn't originally bother to look at the link, but it's a good one. Proves who the real aggressors are in this country!

This post has been edited by Smell the Fear: 23 February 2007 - 12:34 AM

[BoomBoom]

Portillo, Abbot and O'Neil will bemoan HPI to make a political point when it suits them, but they showed their true colours tonight. A return to serfdom is just fine with them so long as they themselves do not become serfs. No doubt Lily Allen was invited on the show in the hope she would say something braindead, as this would have given the 3 smugskerteers an opportunity to be typically supercilious.

[DrBubb]

The British economy has encouraged property speculation-
Indeed, it has lived off it.

But no one wants to kill off the the toxic goose that is laying those golden eggs

[CrashedOutAndBurned]

Lily's music is dire but she has a future in politics. Go Lily!

[sam]

BoomBoom, on Feb 22 2007, 01:01 PM, said:

Portillo, Abbot and O'Neil will bemoan HPI to make a political point when it suits them, but they showed their true colours tonight. A return to serfdom is just fine with them so long as they themselves do not become serfs. No doubt Lily Allen was invited on the show in the hope she would say something braindead, as this would have given the 3 smugskerteers an opportunity to be typically supercilious.

You can bet your life that the two chaps own multiple propertys, and so kept their mouths shut, and it would not supprise at all if that fake Abbot had a few as well. Sends her kids to private schools, gets around London in Taxis, what type of socialism is this ????, she is just fat ugly t**t that likes the sound of her own voice.