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Livingstone's latest wheeze
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"Sir Benjamin Nunn" wrote: "David Boothroyd" wrote in message ... What a surprise that not all of the 1,000,000 people who work in the City of London and Westminster can live there. Even if we had developed at the typical densities of European capitals (instead of our unusually low densities), there is no way all of them could possibly live within easy reach of their workplaces. They don't all need to - but if *more* of them did, there would be less crowding on transport and the other benefits that go with it. And a lot more crowding in the centres of cities, for which the infrastructure is not there. I don't begrudge home to those in social housing in Westminster. And I do. I find the idea that people given a free home can choose where they live, while those who work hard and pay tax are often forced into living where they can afford it contemptibly unfair. Although not surprising in this country, admittedly. 1) Social housing is not free. The residents must pay rent. 2) The vast majority of them work hard and pay tax. The largest group of people in Westminster who neither work hard nor pay tax are the very rich who live off investments and family trusts. 3) The residents do not 'choose where they live' in any real sense. They are the local working-class population and their descendants who have lived in central London for generations and only now find it difficult to afford open-market prices. Do you think people are prepared to put up with housing densities which will go considerably over 1,000 habitable rooms per hectare in the city centre? Or are you the new Pol Pot, determined to abolish cities and move everyone back to the land? Heh. If I could live and work in a more rural area, I'd do it in a second, but the option isn't there. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Anathaema to your sort though it may be, I just want to live in a world of greater choice. You were just arguing against choice for those in the social housing sector. I want to live in a world where choice is available to everybody from all backgrounds whereas you seem to want your own choice and deny it to others. -- http://www.election.demon.co.uk "The guilty party was the Liberal Democrats and they were hardened offenders, and coded racism was again in evidence in leaflets distributed in September 1993." - Nigel Copsey, "Contemporary British Fascism", page 62. |
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