The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[Bruce Wayne]

If anyone thinks the war on the poor is solving our Deficit and economy is fooling themselves! The government's targets are being pushed back year on year and sticking the boot into the welfare dependent is nothing more than smoke and mirrors for DM readers and Arsenal fans. If you live in London it must be 'crisis what crisis' and any world where Boris is anything other than a horrible joke I want no part of.

Of course, because paying £1000 a month to rent a bog standard flat is like a field of ponies.

 

[Donald Twain]

Of course, because paying £1000 a month to rent a bog standard flat is like a field of ponies.

You could always get on one of your ponies and ride north if you like.

 

[Jags..class]

Only one earner in my family, other half cant work due to sickness, I'm on a bit more then the minimum wage and still struggle. I'm worried that the Government just want to make life harder for us rather then help us.

 

[russiandog]

Mates live by the Angel have decent jobs one is an actuary and the other works for Arsenal they pay nearly 2k between them a month for a [Poor language removed] hole.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You could always get on one of your ponies and ride north if you like.

Will move abroad if anywhere I think.

 

[russiandog]

Only one earner in my family, other half cant work due to sickness, I'm on a bit more then the minimum wage and still struggle. I'm worried that the Government just want to make life harder for us rather then help us.

Do you vote? If so if a particularly parties policy meant you were financially better off would you vote for them?

 

[Jags..class]

Do you vote? If so if a particularly parties policy meant you were financially better off would you vote for them?

Depend on what other policies they have such as NHS, Schools, etc

 

[Coach]

If anyone thinks the war on the poor is solving our Deficit and economy is fooling themselves! The government's targets are being pushed back year on year and sticking the boot into the welfare dependent is nothing more than smoke and mirrors for DM readers and Arsenal fans. If you live in London it must be 'crisis what crisis' and any world where Boris is anything other than a horrible joke I want no part of.

Quite a good summary of this here

http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/201...n-of-the-future-is-worthy-of-a-terminator-mov

 

[edge]

You could always get onfamiliesof your ponies and ride north if you like.

Plenty are doing just that or being forced to never known so many southern families around Liverpool , by my mums in Kirkdale they are popping up everywhere cant see many picking that as somewhere to relocate to.

 

[Coach]

It is social cleansing.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It is social cleansing.

Rather dramatic don't you think?

 

[Coach]

No.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That suggests a deliberate attempt to remove particular people from an area. I mean most boroughs in London are Labour controlled (my own of Southwark certainly is). They aren't going to want to remove all working class people from the area are they?

 

[Coach]

It doesn't at all. It describes the effect of a Tory policy.

It is not so long ago that Newham was trying to relocate their poor to Stoke. However, it is wrong to place the emphasis for this onto local councils who have their hands tied by the overarching economic and legal parameters defined for them by the ConDem Government.

These graphics show quite nicely the impact of the government benefit cap policy in London,

http://www.londonspovertyprofile.or...ving-non-work-benefits/national-benefit-caps/

The poor are being moved on and eventually London will die on its arse because of a lack of social diversity in the workforce.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

There seems to be a case here of fitting the facts to suit a narrative as much as anything. I live in Elephant & Castle for instance. It isn't a salubrious part of town, and no doubt had it remained as such, there would be many chastising the 'awful' conditions people have to live in. Yet they're knocking down the Heygate estate to have newer houses on it. There are buildings popping up all over the place to significantly add to the housing stock. The park has recently been revamped, and there's a new leisure centre being built on the Elephant roundabout.

All of which is great, but it seems inevitable that this will lead to a degree of gentrification in the area. They're damned if they do bugger all, damned if they try and improve things.

Just walk down the Walworth road and tell me the place lacks social diversity