08-16-2011, 07:55 AM
I have never understood the need for Social Housing as well as Housing Benefit, which pays all or part of the rent, depending on circumstances. That said, it is a very serious thing to throw someone out of their home -- they will have to be re-housed, but in a more horrible place. Certainly, if the tenant makes a nuisance of him/herself to the community, in one way one can argue that the person has ejected themselves, but with some of the case dealing with children, i doubt much good will be done, unless, for example, it is the last straw from a family which does not give tuppence for anyone or anything. I think the courts are likely to err on the liberal side--some of the sentences so far seem far from draconian.
I am completely with Leanne on the use of 'scum'. Although it can be almost attractive in reality, on a lake say, I find it revolting as applied to human beings. Newspapers love it, just as they love the term 'sink estates'. What does that say to the people growing up there? The rather simplistic BBC likes to get right in and analyse 'gang culture', but they wouldn't recognise a gang-member if they found him in their soup!
One thing which may have eluded people who are not here: there is an after-taste, inasmuch as one does not know-- was he in it? was she? Then the corollary: so many plainly innocent people, so many. And what a bloody cheek! That's when I have to calm down over a coffee, and listen to someone else's tales, or theories, the most intriguing being, that it is all in response to cuts which have yet to happen, or some opaque piece of legislation. Oddly, people have the same views now, as they did before. It is all because of Labour's 13 years at the helm; it is Cameron and the Toffs. Plus ca change.....
I am completely with Leanne on the use of 'scum'. Although it can be almost attractive in reality, on a lake say, I find it revolting as applied to human beings. Newspapers love it, just as they love the term 'sink estates'. What does that say to the people growing up there? The rather simplistic BBC likes to get right in and analyse 'gang culture', but they wouldn't recognise a gang-member if they found him in their soup!
One thing which may have eluded people who are not here: there is an after-taste, inasmuch as one does not know-- was he in it? was she? Then the corollary: so many plainly innocent people, so many. And what a bloody cheek! That's when I have to calm down over a coffee, and listen to someone else's tales, or theories, the most intriguing being, that it is all in response to cuts which have yet to happen, or some opaque piece of legislation. Oddly, people have the same views now, as they did before. It is all because of Labour's 13 years at the helm; it is Cameron and the Toffs. Plus ca change.....