WE live in a small welsh village were social housing is at a premium.The council & housing association want to build more houses to solve this problem, but have been refused planning permission. But along comes Barrat homes and 2 other companies applies for planning for luxury 3,4 & 5 bed homes and gets instant planning.Because of the recession they have sat on the land for 3 years and have just started building the 1st phase, 260 £300,000 homes.The other 1400 have yet to be started. This proves that they dont give a monkies about the working class that need social housing.

Social Mobility is another way of saying "ethnic cleansing" except the socially unacceptabewl are the ones being cleansed. It is a progressively incidious way of moveing the lowere paid and teh less ell healed to other regions by pusing them into the back and beyond. Easily done by closing the shops that sell their produce far cheaper than the "acceptably more expensive stores" SImply build new homes and create a starting price of £300,000 and call this affordable. The local authority love it as it attracts better off peole to the borough and so no subsidies are needed to help peole get by. So if you have a lower paid service job then you'll have to commute paying those very expensive fares to get to work and having to pay ridiculously high child minding fees that only the better offf can and make sure they can afford. Welcome to RIP OFF BRITAIN where prices are kept artificially high to keep out the plebes and then complain about the "scroungers" who need help and are accused of living off those who perceive they are paying out for others from their hard earned incomes

Now what do we do about wealthy MPs who insist on making spurious expenses claims to enhance their lifestyle at the taxpayer's expense and try to justify it as reasonable and are incurred solely from their function as an MP. What do we do about those MPs who have managed to escape justice and jail for making such claims knowing them to be false? Don't see them being turfed our of their second homes the taxpayer is buying and when they leave parliament the asset is all theirs and is nto claimed back by the State. After all only a few MPs have been brought to book so where are the rest????

Just glad I sold my 6 bedroomed Victorian house for a small fortune before this recession set in and bought 2 acres of land and a 120ft barge on the Caledonian canal, where I now live the life of Riley.
No noisey neighbours, no immagrants, no money worries. Absolute bliss !

nothing changes f___k___g MPs making life hell with their idiotic thoughts on how to make life a better place please stop steeling yourself from people in the name of tax tax tax vat fuel duty income tax money is **** and man made a strand of grass is worth more than money !!!

What a load of bollo*cks! These people may be earning these sums NOW, but that doesn't mean they were earning them when they moved in to their homes, and let's face it, that is what these houses are.....their homes!if they are paying rent why the hell should they move?

And what is all this nonsense about subsidies? These houses are BUILT, they are not subject to any additional costs,the people in them are paying the rent requested by the local authority.

If you want to ghettoise the remaining council housing stock, by removing any incentive to get out and earn a living wage, listen to that bunch of brainless tw*ts in the government, who plainly see council housing as the rightful abode of the unemployable underclass, whilst they stay rent-free in country houses such as Chequers.

This is simply a cheap trick to distract us from the fact that this government is incapable of taking the necessary steps to get rid of a large part of the waiting list by building new council houses to reinstate the numbers sold off by that bitch Thatcher, thereby putting at least some of the building trade back to work.

Why the need for people on a high income to be in council housing? Because once upon a time housing was given to people who needed it and those familys grew to better themselves.

Now it is given to single mums, forgeiners, gypsies or the homeless and that is fact. Familys who wanted to better themselves paid the rent on time and needed no benefits, These familys could put money into housing so more housing could be built,

Now housing is all for those on benefits who pay nothing back and wont get a job whilst everything is paid for, It doesnt pay for them to work because they would earn the same or less and have to get off there lazy arse in the morning.

Sickens me

Council homes should be for people who cannot afford to purchase a home because of low pay.
How on Gods earth did people who are wealthy get a Council house when ordinary folk have to rent privately becase there are no homes availabe for them. Some are on the Breadline trying to keep private houses over their heads, with no funds for essentials. It Beggars belief that Governments allow this to happen. No wonder this Country is a laughing stock.

Long Overdue

I will have respect for the government that shows respect for the worker.
Not the shyster.....but the worker.