TeddyBear Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 LBC phone in is discussing complaints from labour MPs today that "social cleansing" will happen in London now because Westminster council has said it will have to move homeless families out of the borough 0845 60 60 973, text 84850 if anyone has the energy to argue.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 I think if you can afford to ring or text then you're being paid too much benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer466 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Funny how they come up with the sound-bites for their own political ends!! Social Cleansing sounds like Ethnic Cleansing and is clearly designed to spark emotive memory. Course the market could drive rents down back into territory where HB applies but they always ignore that part of the argument. I wager the number of Tory MP's with BTL interests is not nearly as many as those on the Labour benches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Forgetting of course that large areas in Manchester have been socially cleansed by pulling down council houses and building shitty new housing association stuff. Oh and turfing out OO too and paying them rubbish money so they couldn't afford to buy again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 What if we all wanted to live in Westminster Are BBC saying they would never turn anyone down, that its not only everyones right to live in Westminster, but also their right to be paid to do so. This stupid country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeddyBear Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 (edited) They seemed to delay it for an hour. Presenter very confused, on the one hand she wants to get all up in arms and say this is Shirley Porter all over again, bringing in the right kind of voter but then presenter remembered that she had to move out of Chiswick to get more space and got confused if she wanted taxes going to those who didn't have to make the move. Edited July 5, 2010 by TeddyBear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeddyBear Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 Lady from Westminster council on now saying that Labour policy was madness - and that £400 a week is still equivalent to salary of £60k a year, which will keep people in benefits trap. She is also saying that she thinks rents will adjust and come down because there isn't enough private sector demand to replace all the flats in the borough paid for by housing benefits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightytharg Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 LBC phone in is discussing complaints from labour MPs today that "social cleansing" will happen in London now because Westminster council has said it will have to move homeless families out of the borough 0845 60 60 973, text 84850 if anyone has the energy to argue.... This could turn out to be great for London. Get rid of the scroungers and it might be worth my while to buy a flat there. Are people really against London being cleaner with nicer people in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dissident junk Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Lady from Westminster council on now saying that Labour policy was madness - and that £400 a week is still equivalent to salary of £60k a year, which will keep people in benefits trap. She is also saying that she thinks rents will adjust and come down because there isn't enough private sector demand to replace all the flats in the borough paid for by housing benefits. Oh, I suspect there will be enough private sector demand, particularly if there is a certain amount of rental adjustment. A ceiling on LHA payments in Westminster of £1600 a month might create a "ripple-in" effect, decreasing rents to the point where two-income professional couples that work in Central London but currently rent private sector one/two-bed flats in zone two/three/four for £1000-ish a month can afford to move inwards towards the centre. After all, it would make sense for them to do this. You'd possibly save a good £300 a month in total on transport costs, then it is only another £200 a month to find to exchange for reduced commuting times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormymonday_2011 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 LBC phone in is discussing complaints from labour MPs today that "social cleansing" will happen in London now because Westminster council has said it will have to move homeless families out of the borough 0845 60 60 973, text 84850 if anyone has the energy to argue.... This has been happening for years as the poor unfortunate residents of Hasting know only too well as London boroughs dump their undesirables on them. Similar thing happened on the Marquess Estate in Islington under a Labour government and council when many local council tenants were forced to move to make way for more upmarket development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 So where to hold the riots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roseland69 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 So where to hold the riots? NIMBY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britney's Piers Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Are people really against London being cleaner with nicer people in it? London, nice people? They're not evicting the entire populus you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copydude Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 While everyone bandies around the highly-charged 400 figure, I wanted to know for a fact who actually receives this and under what circumstances. But the server isn't responding. The connection has timed outThe server at lha-direct.therentservice.gov.uk is taking too long to respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Liebenstein Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 This has been happening for years as the poor unfortunate residents of Hasting know only too well as London boroughs dump their undesirables on them. Similar thing happened on the Marquess Estate in Islington under a Labour government and council when many local council tenants were forced to move to make way for more upmarket development. Obviously the solution is higher house prices in Hastings, keep those undesirables transported from London away - quick somebody send for Sibley and the Wilsons, Hastings needs them now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 While everyone bandies around the highly-charged 400 figure, I wanted to know for a fact who actually receives this and under what circumstances. But the server isn't responding. LHA by postcode. Start with w1 1aa and work out the entitlement. I think one of the highest ones said they only had 80 families on the top levels. so that's ok then. only 80 families taking 104k in rent a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erranta Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 <br />This could turn out to be great for London. Get rid of the scroungers and it might be worth my while to buy a flat there.<br /><br />Are people really against London being cleaner with nicer people in it?<br /> We know what U mean - but who destroyed the country? Hard working, parasitic > Nice people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einstein71 Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 I have to say I actually used to quite like poor people but recently I have really started to go off of them. So much so that I moved to Mid Sussex to escape having to look at them. That was always the problem of living in London and then Brighton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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