Quote Originally Posted by surge View Post
Justine greening's Putney also apparently has a low council tax rate. I guess if you want a low council tax but cuts, cuts, cuts which hit the most vulnerable hardest then it's all good.

What is stopping everyone in social housing achieving? Some will be a lack of support and comfort, and if living in and around a more visually affluent and motivated area can help then good. It may also mean those affluent households are more grounded in the realities some face and encourage them to work harder too.
So it's fine to say the "affluent households" could be "more grounded in reality" and that they could be encouraged to "work harder" but when we speak of the less affluent households we all have to assume they're the hardest working, salt-of-the-earth individuals to ever walk the planet.

The fact of the matter is, a lot of these families are an absolute fecking nightmare to live around. You should have one of the nightmare families move in next to you, get you facing some realities too.

I'm guessing when the lead gets nicked off your roof, you're up till 3am because of their music & shouting and you're clearing junk from your garden that they've decided belongs there, that Kum Ba Yah opinion of yours will begin to melt right out of your brain.