Channel 4 know how disappointed you were that Benefits Street was not on last week, so to make up for it there is a special double bill tonight !

At 8pm a programme about the Under Occupancy Rate (all those people who complain that they cannot afford to heat their homes are STILL complaining when we suggest they downsize - to something more suitable - and free-up larger homes for someone who actually needs them!)

(There will be a special crap-o-meter in the corner of the screen ... it will click-up everytime someone uses a mobile phone, swears, or everytime we see a large flat screen TV !)

Then, at 9pm, the final (ahh !) episode of Benefits Street itself !

Don't be disheartened though, hedda - you will see LOTS more of the dolers during the Wythenshaw bye-election (the largest council dumpheap in Europe !)
I wonder who they will vote for LOL ???!!!!

Someone who hates dolers, why are you obsessed with it ITK ?

yes the NSW Minister who proposed the same policy (presumably after reading the Times) has already hit a snag : there are not nearly enough small flats for all the people who now want to "down size".

I expect the problem will be far worse in the UK.

And perhaps the same will happen in the UK that is now happening in NSW : lawyers are now preparing class actions against that Minister's department for failing to keep up repairs, as per leases. I guarantee the same will happen in the UK.

so another gormless policy by a vacuous politician will now cost millions of $$ instead, far in excess that a 'bedroom tax' will raise.

### note , all the other Aust states, most which are Tory run have declined to charge a "bedroom tax"

Best thing on TV Andrew !

You need to get out more ITK.

hedda wrote:
far in excess that a 'bedroom tax' will raise.


.... and the FIVE MILLION on social housing waiting lists can go hang, can they?

Typical "I'm alright, Jack" Labour !!!!!
Grab, Grab, Grab and sod everyone else.

In The Know wrote:
hedda wrote:
far in excess that a 'bedroom tax' will raise.


.... and the FIVE MILLION on social housing waiting lists can go hang, can they?

Typical "I'm alright, Jack" Labour !!!!!
Grab, Grab, Grab and sod everyone else.

your concern for them is duly noted but might be more convincing if you aknowledged how that situation arose.

Move them to bedsits.

hedda wrote:
your concern for them is duly noted but might be more convincing if you aknowledged how that situation arose.

It "arose" because they would GRAB what they can - while it was FREE !