Diesel

Gordon Brown on Monday that social housing would receive a £1.4bn boost in an effort to help key public sector workers buy homes.

I strongly object to the government using my taxes to help others buy grossly overpriced property. It is a truly narrow minded, unfair, uninclusionist and just a plain stupid idea - can the government not see that this will make the problem even worse for everyone else…

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DavidBrown

Don't forget that they're introducing "Super Schools" for braniacs, usually in higher earning areas.. which will receive more money.. that the more needy schools.

Just plain stupid.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Don't get me started on "Lying Labour".
I could rant for England about those b@st@rds.
Mind you, I don't want the grey man back either, so wot to do?

Gordo

Given that they claimed to be handling the UK economy so well (even though it was doing well in spite of them due to the whole world doing well) do you think they'll now admit to messing it up as it all comes crashing down round their ears?

or will they blame someone else.......

time to stop the socialist experiment!

^Qwerty^

They will still blame it on the last Tory government.

carl

There's a lot of use of the phrase "The last government" by the current incumbents. What they fail to realize is that they were the last government

MattW

But why should n't they be able to have a 5 bed house in Surrey stockbroker belt, just because their salary is low, bit discriminatory isn't it.

Would n't happen in China or Cuba

[Edited by MattW - 7/17/2002 1:37:34 PM]

Katana

In Soviet Russia, Labour moans at you..

NotoriousREV

My sister is the deputy head of a primary school in the north-west. Her school is average. They have pupils from poor families and from wealthy families, they have brainiac pupils and dumb-as-a-doorpost pupils. They also have a crisis where their building was condemmed and they were forced to teach in portacabins while the school was rebuilt and now because of the money spent on the building work, they can't afford text books.

The problem is, because they are average they get no help. If they were a poorly performing school, they'd get extra funding. If they were a specialist school, or very highly performing they would get extra funding.

One of their neighbouring schools has more money than they can spend, they have a brand new computer suite, all text books are less than 2 years old all because they were performing badly, and now they get an extra grant because they have made the most improvement.

Anyone else think this situation is ridiculous?