How many rooms does George Monbiot have?
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according to the horrid little leftie - those people with extra rooms in their home are being 'subsidised' and need to be taxed more ..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/0...
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k me, I'm moved to hammer down some quite colourful language.
That fking lefty loony is proposing single people can only live in a house/flat with 1 fking bedroom otherwise we are rich bds stealing valuable living space.
He's written some serious st in his time but this takes the fking cake! What fking planet is he on?
k me, I'm moved to hammer down some quite colourful language.That f
king lefty loony is proposing single people can only live in a house/flat with 1 fking bedroom otherwise we are rich bds stealing valuable living space.He's written some serious s
t in his time but this takes the fking cake! What fking planet is he on?
It does seem faintly bonkers to me that in our road of twenty-six 3 & 4 bedroom good sized "family" houses, there is now only one family with kids at home. Of the seventeen immediately around me (the others are separated, ironically, by the village school) eight of them are occupied by single people, four of whom bought the houses while they were single.
I don't know what the solution is - ideally they could be rounded up and put in some sort od purpose built accommodation, but I guess that's not going to happen. Someone did try for a retirement village type of thing, but the scale of it to support 100 or so dwellings was immense and the nimby's went beserk.
I don't know what the solution is - ideally they could be rounded up and put in some sort od purpose built accommodation, but I guess that's not going to happen. Someone did try for a retirement village type of thing, but the scale of it to support 100 or so dwellings was immense and the nimby's went beserk.
Deva Link said:
It does seem faintly bonkers to me that in our road of twenty-six 3 & 4 bedroom good sized "family" houses, there is now only one family with kids at home. Of the seventeen immediately around me (the others are separated, ironically, by the village school) eight of them are occupied by single people, four of whom bought the houses while they were single.
I don't know what the solution is - ideally they could be rounded up and put in some sort od purpose built accommodation, but I guess that's not going to happen. Someone did try for a retirement village type of thing, but the scale of it to support 100 or so dwellings was immense and the nimby's went beserk.
You have a funny notion of "ideal".I don't know what the solution is - ideally they could be rounded up and put in some sort od purpose built accommodation, but I guess that's not going to happen. Someone did try for a retirement village type of thing, but the scale of it to support 100 or so dwellings was immense and the nimby's went beserk.
The Black Flash said:
Deva Link said:
It does seem faintly bonkers to me that in our road of twenty-six 3 & 4 bedroom good sized "family" houses, there is now only one family with kids at home. Of the seventeen immediately around me (the others are separated, ironically, by the village school) eight of them are occupied by single people, four of whom bought the houses while they were single.
I don't know what the solution is - ideally they could be rounded up and put in some sort od purpose built accommodation, but I guess that's not going to happen. Someone did try for a retirement village type of thing, but the scale of it to support 100 or so dwellings was immense and the nimby's went beserk.
You have a funny notion of "ideal".I don't know what the solution is - ideally they could be rounded up and put in some sort od purpose built accommodation, but I guess that's not going to happen. Someone did try for a retirement village type of thing, but the scale of it to support 100 or so dwellings was immense and the nimby's went beserk.
cloggy said:
The Black Flash said:
Deva Link said:
It does seem faintly bonkers to me that in our road of twenty-six 3 & 4 bedroom good sized "family" houses, there is now only one family with kids at home. Of the seventeen immediately around me (the others are separated, ironically, by the village school) eight of them are occupied by single people, four of whom bought the houses while they were single.
I don't know what the solution is - ideally they could be rounded up and put in some sort of purpose built accommodation, but I guess that's not going to happen. Someone did try for a retirement village type of thing, but the scale of it to support 100 or so dwellings was immense and the nimby's went beserk.
You have a funny notion of "ideal".I don't know what the solution is - ideally they could be rounded up and put in some sort of purpose built accommodation, but I guess that's not going to happen. Someone did try for a retirement village type of thing, but the scale of it to support 100 or so dwellings was immense and the nimby's went beserk.
I'm sure as people got older they would move into these places *if* they were in their current neighbourhood *and* the right sort of space and facilities were available. I was reading about one in Birmingham recently and it was massively over-subscribed.
thinfourth2 said:
And i bet the wee lefty little st flys way more then is do
Do as i say not as i do
Yes, I'm hearing a lot of this. Al "Earth Killer" Gore seems to have racked up a few airmiles, not to mention attempted to turn his wife's vagina into a clown car.t flys way more then is doDo as i say not as i do
Edited by ShadownINja on Tuesday 4th January 11:58
Deva Link said:
I meant "ideally" for the younger people who are trying to find and buy family homes.
I'm sure as people got older they would move into these places *if* they were in their current neighbourhood *and* the right sort of space and facilities were available. I was reading about one in Birmingham recently and it was massively over-subscribed.
The problem isI'm sure as people got older they would move into these places *if* they were in their current neighbourhood *and* the right sort of space and facilities were available. I was reading about one in Birmingham recently and it was massively over-subscribed.
Small house = s
t areaI bet this wasnt his view when the coalition said they wanted to move council tenants from council houses with too many rooms for them (since their children had left homes) into what they would otherwise be entitled to claim for today, to free up supply for large younger families.
As usual, its punish people who worked for what theyve got, leave the dossers alone.
Though i agree with the principle that some homes are too lightly taxed. It seems insane that the top council tax bracket can apply to homes worth a little as £500k, to as much as £50million. A few more brackets at the top end would be no bad thing. As a percentage of the homes value, council tax is very regressive. If it was fixed at 0.5% of a houses value, homeowners of less valuable houses would pay a lot less, homeowners of expensive ones would pay more. And thats just a flat tax, not even a progressive one.
As usual, its punish people who worked for what theyve got, leave the dossers alone.
Though i agree with the principle that some homes are too lightly taxed. It seems insane that the top council tax bracket can apply to homes worth a little as £500k, to as much as £50million. A few more brackets at the top end would be no bad thing. As a percentage of the homes value, council tax is very regressive. If it was fixed at 0.5% of a houses value, homeowners of less valuable houses would pay a lot less, homeowners of expensive ones would pay more. And thats just a flat tax, not even a progressive one.
thinfourth2 said:
Probably way more then we do
Probably in central london
And i bet the wee lefty little st flys way more then is do
Do as i say not as i do
Actually I recall he moved to rural Wales to give his children a better quality of life.Probably in central london
And i bet the wee lefty little s
t flys way more then is doDo as i say not as i do
Then got a car because he realised public transport is in fact crap.
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