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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 26, 2024 10:22:04 GMT
'British homes for British workers!' Rishi Sunak eyes up radical social housing overhaul in new tough migration approachThe move comes as part of an attempt to give British citizens faster access to social housing. Rishi Sunak is eyeing up a new social housing overhaul as part of a tough new approach to migration. The Government is looking at plans to give UK families priority when it comes to social housing, in a scheme that will be sold as "British homes for British workers". www.gbnews.com/politics/rishi-sunak-social-housing-plan-migrant-crisisLefties will of course be outraged by this, but I cant see anything wrong in prioritising British people over immigrants. It should be the norm.
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Post by dappy on Jan 26, 2024 10:25:05 GMT
There's an election due very soon now.
Take anything any politician says now in that context and I suggest pretty much ignore.
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Post by Dogburger on Jan 26, 2024 10:38:05 GMT
Well it will be a welcome change if 'workers' are allocated social housing as opposed to layabouts but in effect there will be no change to local housing policy of who is the most needy of a council house (clue , its not workers )
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 26, 2024 10:42:48 GMT
There's an election due very soon now. Take anything any politician says now in that context and I suggest pretty much ignore. Oh yes I'm aware of that. But it goes to show, the government must be aware that such a policy would be popular.
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 26, 2024 10:46:38 GMT
Well it will be a welcome change if 'workers' are allocated social housing as opposed to layabouts but in effect there will be no change to local housing policy of who is the most needy of a council house (clue , its not workers ) Well we'll see. If nothing else it's a move in the right direction. If someone wants social housing they should be a British citizen. Perfectly reasonable imo.
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Post by Dogburger on Jan 26, 2024 10:53:38 GMT
Well it will be a welcome change if 'workers' are allocated social housing as opposed to layabouts but in effect there will be no change to local housing policy of who is the most needy of a council house (clue , its not workers ) Well we'll see. If nothing else it's a move in the right direction. If someone wants social housing they should be a British citizen. Perfectly reasonable imo. If they were to say both your grandfathers should be British citizens they still wouldn't have enough stock but for me that would be a better indication that we are looking after our own
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Post by dappy on Jan 26, 2024 11:30:25 GMT
There's an election due very soon now. Take anything any politician says now in that context and I suggest pretty much ignore. Oh yes I'm aware of that. But it goes to show, the government must be aware that such a policy would be popular. Making empty noises to a semi engaged uninformed electorate may get positive tabloid headlines and mayb e even win a vote or two. Its all a game. There is no "policy" just meaningless words.
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Post by Bentley on Jan 26, 2024 11:53:34 GMT
It would be ‘ meaningless words ‘ whatever it was and whoever said it , until it became policy. I can faintly recall ‘ British jobs for British workers ‘ statement by a Labour PM . That was meaningless words to iirc.
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Post by dappy on Jan 26, 2024 11:58:28 GMT
Yes it was. The point is not party political. Anything any politician says should be seen through the prism of any election being round the corner.
Let’s play though. What do you think a policy of “British homes for British workers” means in practise?
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Post by Pacifico on Jan 26, 2024 11:58:33 GMT
Well it will be a welcome change if 'workers' are allocated social housing as opposed to layabouts but in effect there will be no change to local housing policy of who is the most needy of a council house (clue , its not workers ) Well we'll see. If nothing else it's a move in the right direction. If someone wants social housing they should be a British citizen. Perfectly reasonable imo.
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Post by johnofgwent on Jan 26, 2024 12:02:36 GMT
Well it will be a welcome change if 'workers' are allocated social housing as opposed to layabouts but in effect there will be no change to local housing policy of who is the most needy of a council house (clue , its not workers ) Well we'll see. If nothing else it's a move in the right direction. If someone wants social housing they should be a British citizen. Perfectly reasonable imo. One key factor in the growth of high tech and (formerly) high necessity employment prospects WAS in the past ‘key worker housing’ In short, new town development corporations considered it pretty much suicidal NOT to include, as part of the development, decent affordable private and plentiful decent social housing for those they wished to entice to relocate to WORK in these places. Even Conservative PEERS appointed to chair development corporations understood THAT
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Post by Orac on Jan 26, 2024 12:06:03 GMT
It's way to late to actually do anything (once again)
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 26, 2024 12:08:21 GMT
It's way to late to actually do anything (once again) I suspect you are probably correct, sadly.
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Post by Bentley on Jan 26, 2024 12:10:03 GMT
Yes it was. The point is not party political. Anything any politician says should be seen through the prism of any election being round the corner. Let’s play though. What do you think a policy of “British homes for British workers” means in practise? Indeed. That works both ways . We can dismiss anything that a Labour leader says just as we can dismiss a Tory leader. So that takes care of any form of debate about then.…. doing anything interesting at the weekend ?
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Post by dappy on Jan 26, 2024 12:19:32 GMT
Look beyond the slogans (from all sides) and see if there is any substance. It's hard to see any in this "announcement".
I ask again what would a policy of "British Homes for British workers" mean in practise?
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