The Olympic council flats for up to £5,000 a week

[Du1point8]

Brought to my attention by a nice soul on FB that is complaining that the low paid people are only trying to get a little bit of spending cash and it should not be seen as a bad thing, apparently its an attack on peoples privilege to not be allowed to do it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/908...

one of his friends actually complains that Islington council have said that they will be fined if they do actually sublet a room in their apartment, they also think that this is a violation against their rights as a taxpayer and they should be allowed to do it.

[heppers75]

Certainly and the money should go back to the state, very easy really.

[carmonk]

If they can sublet a room they clearly don't need the space and should be moved to somewhere smaller. If they can sublet the whole flat then they should be chucked out for the same reason.

[monkey gland]

It's all a load of bks.

As if someone with the desire to spend £5k a week on accommodation would want to stay in some scummy, sthole council flat.

[Steffan]

In our dreamworld in the UK today, of absolute rights to everything and absolutely no responsibility for anything, I am saddened but not surprised.

I would confidently expect idiots of a criminal nature to be claiming housing benefit at £1000 a week whist doing this, and expect the keep all the money.

Its their right, being the modern mantra.

This government is genuinely making attempts to regulate the benefits system so that the country can actually afford it and the gross misfeance and wholesale fraud that is so obviously going on is stopped.

It will take time as did losing control of the system over decades of free living in the UK policies.

But I do think within 5 years living on benefits will no longer be the objective of the feckless, lazy idiots it has become.

5 years after that the system will probably be sustainable. Seismic change takes that long.

I think there is the dawning of the realisation of the extent and depth of this problem across all parties.

I had a conversation with Geoff Rooker, now Lord Rooker, in 1982, the opposition spokesman on Housing about the horrors of council housing deficiencies at the time.

He predicted then that the system would change and there would be no more council housing. Again cross party realisation that councils had become the worst absentee landlords in the UK.

And lo, he was right.

Took 30 odd years but Council housing has largely been transferred to local Housing Associations. And Sold. Anything to get it out of the LA system.

This benefits abuse change will be just the same. Hopefully a bit quicker.

[Oakey]

monkey gland said:

It's all a load of bks.

As if someone with the desire to spend £5k a week on accommodation would want to stay in some scummy, sthole council flat.

Erm, you clearly didn't watch that Panorama (or whatever it was) special where the policeman was letting out his fairly nice council flat for about £500 a week. He also owned the flat opposite as well.

Meanwhile he was spending his time in a big gaff he owned in the South of France.

Steffan said:

I would confidently expect idiots of a criminal nature to be claiming housing benefit at £1000 a week whist doing this, and expect the keep all the money

Except it's not just the typical criminals doing this, it's normal, supposedly upstanding members of the community like the one mentioned above who are taking the absolute fking piss as well.