Local councils have a statutory duty to house the homeless although there are conditions.

Selling off council housing and not replacing them was the biggest scam ever.

Vote for Corbyn and Your Party as it has announced tackling homelessness as their first priority.

And tell those Reform councilors and absent MPs to pull their fingers out and go back to work.

Do you really think Lockdown Steptoe will solve the UK issues?

Green Man wrote:
Do you really think Lockdown Steptoe will solve the UK issues?

I think Corbyn would put more energy into housing the homeless than supporting Israel, so on that basis I for one would vote for him in this fucked up world...

hedda wrote:
Local councils have a statutory duty to house the homeless although there are conditions.


One being don't be a single male without children.

Not something those overwhelmingly male and presumably mainly single men who float across illegally have to worry about.

Rich wrote:
hedda wrote:
Local councils have a statutory duty to house the homeless although there are conditions.


One being don't be a single male without children.

Not something those overwhelmingly male and presumably mainly single men who float across illegally have to worry about.

Also, most councils only give support to those who are addicts. I remember driving an old friend to the council offices before lockdown; he fled from domestic abuse. He was told bluntly numerous times that if he had a drink/drug problem or had kids or was an asylum seeker, he would get support. I told the council staff he is living in a car at the moment, and they said that will do for the time being!



Being a British White male is like being Lepar from Biblical times.

Rich wrote:
[quote]hedda wrote:


Not something those overwhelmingly male and presumably mainly single men who float across illegally have to worry about.

You've no idea what these young men may have to worry about Rich...

Rich wrote:
hedda wrote:
Local councils have a statutory duty to house the homeless although there are conditions.


One being don't be a single male without children.

Not something those overwhelmingly male and presumably mainly single men who float across illegally have to worry about.

No that is not one of the conditions, they relate more to how you became homeless.

I did have a late friend who bought 2 houses in South London and turned them into B&Bs and filled them via the local council.

He always said dealing with most of the tenants was a sheer nightmare with junkies and severe mental illness an ongoing problem.

And that's another problem..closing so many mental health hospitals for "care in the community".

Thatcher started this and her antics persist today. Allowing councils to sell off housing at a discount (so more desirable areas were sold leaving pockets of slums) and forbidding councils from using the money to build more housing.

Yet most of Europe and especially France the law states there must be a certain percentage of social housing in every borough town and city to ensure a mix of people.

The Berlin city council tried to sell of their social housing a couple of decades ago and there were riots so it never happened.

Both Mrs Thatcher and Mr Blair still loom large over the country it seems. Most other PM's play second fiddle to these two.

You Hedda mention Thatcher's legacy persisting to this day, and only yesterday on Talk TV I was hearing about how Blair's legacy is persisting and the root of many of our now issues long after he's been out of office too. That last one was in a discussion with another PM, Liz Truss!

Many on the left are still blaming Thatcher for the country's ills, whilst those on the right are blaming Blair!

Not a Blair fan, but he brought in a minimum wage which Thatcher dare not do, and he brought peace in Northern Ireland, another enormous Thatcher failure. Never been sure why people idolise her so much. And remember she had the weakest most unappealing opposition in Kinnock.

well Rich Margaret Thatcher famously said Tony Blair was her greatest achievement.