Thursday, Apr 08, 2010
Self-satire
Daily Express: GYPSIES WHO GET INTEREST-FREE LOANS COURTESY OF YOU
GYPSIES are being offered interest-free loans to buy land for their caravan sites.
Mendip Council which provoked anger with the scheme said yesterday it would help to banish the “negative stereotype” of rubbish-strewn rented camps.
But last night the project, which will see travellers borrow up to £50,000 a time, was dismissed as an insult to struggling buyers from other communities. Tessa Munt, prospective Liberal Democrat MP, said Mendip Council ought to be helping all first-time buyers.“House prices here are high,” she added. “Mendip ought to publicise the homebuy scheme more.”
Posted by little professor @ 02:18 AM (867 views) Add Comment
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1. little professor said...
Double dose of hate-filled bilge in the Express today:
No story link as yet, but I'm sure they will back up this front page headline with sound statistics and reasoned analysis. Ahem.
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3. mrmickey said...
Not really a good idea to encourage shanty towns.
4. rumble said...
"Mendip Council ought to be helping all first-time buyers"
-- Maybe just let the prices fall.
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6. mark wadsworth said...
Little P, as it happens the statistics saying that
a) the number of British-born people in jobs is flat or slightly down since Labour came in,
b) the number of "new jobs" since Labour came in (mainly in the public sector) is roughly equal to the number of recent immigrants (which is not to say that all new public sector non-jobs have gone to immigrants), and
c) by subtraction, that the number of British-born people working in the private sector has gone down by hundreds of thousands
are broadly speaking correct, and this has been common knowledge for two or three years.
I'm always uncomfortable when agreeing with The Dailyhatemailexpressgraph, but where they are correct they are correct. What conclusions, if any, we should draw from all this is a different topic.
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