That Caroline Flint Bint is at it again...

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Merak · Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 154

She's cooking up plans to allowing eviction of council tenants if they haven't got a job.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/m...=/news/2008/02/06/njobless106.xml

It's the biggest load of codswallop I've heard in a while anyway. I mean really - get a job or get turfed out your council house? And what will happen then... well.. they'll rent private and still claim housing benefit, or they'll be in B&B, paid for by the taxpayer. Are we really to believe that people in council housing - especially if they have kids, will be turfed out because neither of the parents have jobs? I seriously doubt it.

Unless of course homelessness laws also changed so that anybody in that situation wasn't eligible for any form of housing support from the Gov, and also child laws changed as well so that for the benefit of the children, those turfed out would have their kids taken into care. Realistically, that is the lengths this would need to go to for this initiative to really spook people into getting jobs.

And, just imagine for a minute, that all that was put in place... cue an increase in homeless people on the streets... and not many people know this, but homeless people cost a fortune - estimated average of about £30k a year (each!) due the services - police/medical mainly, that they consume each year.

Vicious hag - she was the driving force behind the blanket ban on smoking in england rather than the partial ban, as well.

Woodside Wullie · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 423 Location: Burgh o' Woodside

So Carole Flint (Who was a bit-of-alright. But I've gone right off her.) is suggesting that un-employed council tenants should get the heave-ho. Is it a cunning stunt to provide accommodation for those mortgage defaulters about to have their homes re-possessed, and re-house them in the remaining council houses that have yet to be sold off? (She could get some bankers to help her. It seems to be the in-thing.)

I'm off to the pub.
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Xcotty · Guest

See when she evicts them, where is she gonna put them?

Into another council house?????

Summer_08 · Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 274 Location: Scotland

"get a job or get turfed out your council house? "

Wow - there would be an awful lot of empty houses in a few nearby neighbourhoods that I know....be like a bleedin ghost town...