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[email protected] · March 9th 15, 08:55 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d
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On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:29:40 +0000
eastender wrote:
I must say we are probably living in parallel universes - where you see
only private good I see ordinary people priced out of housing,

Its funny isn't it how some people are so keen on uncontrolled immigration
yet when the inveitable consequences occur - eg **** all housing available
in london at a reasonable rent - its suddenly someone elses fault. And I'm
not just talking about the lefties, we have idiots like Boris saying how
wonderful it is that Londons population will rise above 9m by 2020. Yes,
absolutely fantastic - so long as you're not a native (of whatever skin
colour) who would like to be able to afford to live here and doesn't want
to share some scummy little house with 5 strangers then commute in on
overcrowded public transport at rip off prices for a zero hours job that
pays so little due to immigrants pushing the wages down (and anyone who
claims they haven't doesn't live in the real world I'm afraid).

When I worked in London for a decade until 2011 I noted that most of the
younger people I worked with came from every part of the UK except London,
while born and bred Londoners like me had long ago departed for places like
Crawley, Chelmsford and Cambridge.

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Colin Rosenstiel