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26th November 2013 #1
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£145k pa Champagne Socialist Bob Crow defends living in a Council House
Why should I move out of my council house, asks £145,000 union boss: Bob Crow says he has 'no moral duty to leave despite generous salary'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2lkQxfUbv
Well done Bob for keeping "Asylum Seekers" and feckless single mothers out of this nice property - do what I do not what I say
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26th November 2013 #2
Fair play to him.
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26th November 2013 #3
actually dedworth your income has no effect on your application for applying for a council house, he would probably be at the back of a long queue thou, he must have got the house before he became a champagne socialist. and hardly a champagne socialist living in a council house, when he could buy a mansion
the Tories were talking about forcing people out of council houses who earned £100k a year.
also why is it 'tax payer ' subsidised ? is he claiming housing benefit
what's the tax payer got to do with this ????
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Joe - he'll only be paying £75 per week or so for this subsidised below market rent** gaff leaving him plenty of £'s left over from his £145k pa to buy his Champagne with
** taxpayers money will be in this subsidy somewhere
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26th November 2013 #5
rubbish, tell me where dedworth, the taxpayer has nothing to do with it, how old is the house ?
if he is paying £75 then who ever he is renting it from is still making a profit or they wouldn't be in business still.
below market rent
i pay more than £75 a week, but the housing association (non profit) can afford to pay everyones wage, put a new roof on the house, new central heating and boiler, new kitchen, bathroom, etc.. how come dedworth
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26th November 2013 #6
and i doubt he pays £75 a week, if he does if must be a very small house or flat
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Comrade Bob's drum ;-
Housing Association subsidies :-
In the United Kingdom, housing associations are private, non-profit making organisations that provide low-cost "social housing" for people in need of a home. Any trading surplus is used to maintain existing housing and to help finance new homes. Although independent they are regulated by the state and commonly receive public funding. They are now the United Kingdom's major providers of new housing for rent, while many also run shared ownership schemes to help those who cannot afford to buy a home outright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_association
I made up the £75 per week but whatever he's paying it will be massively below it's private sector rental value
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26th November 2013 #8commonly receive public funding.
you made the £75wk up
well it must have more than one bedroom, i don't know if he has kids or is married?, and it looks like a new house, so i doubt it was built by the local council as we know hardly any council houses have been built since thatcher.
dedworth if he has of money he should free up the house, let someone who isn't a champagne socialist live there, but then again if he did buy a mansion you would be calling him for that he can't win with you
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Here you go Joe taxpayer funding :-
http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk...rk/our-funding
I think in the Mail article Comrade Bob states his family live there - I don't begrudge him that he needs others to guzzle the Moet & Chandon with
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26th November 2013 #10
nothing to do with the housing association near me dedworth, not as far as i can tell,
also the tories were\are shutting it down
Future of the agency
Housing minister Grant Shapps announced early on that the TSA would be abolished as part of the cull of quangos by the coalition government after the 2010 general election. In June 2010, he said that the HCA would be retained but become "smaller, more strategic - with the HCA's functions being delivered under local leadership."[10]
In September 2010, the HCA was also included on a list of organisations being considered for closure.[11] However, Shapps announced in October that the TSA would be merged into the HCA.[12] In November, he confirmed that the HCA would be retained, but reformed to cut running costs.[13]
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How far are you from Specsavers Joe ? This outfit dish out the cash to Housing Associations - your one might be a bit secretive about where it gets it's wedge from
During the 2011-2015 spending review period, we have a £6.8bn capital spending budget for housing and housing-related programmes, broken down as: ...........................................
http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk...rk/our-funding
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26th November 2013 #12
all i see it says about building 150,000 homes, you know and i know virtually 0 council houses have been built since thatcher, if they are talking about housing associations building them, then they might be subsidised by the taxpayer, but as you know 0 council houses have been built so anyone in social housing whatever it cost to build 20+yrs ago has been easily paid back in rent, the house I'm in is 50yrs old, don't tell me that the council haven't got their money back in rent yet and so how can it be subsidised
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Forget all the & Joe
your post # 3 asked what the taxpayer had to do with it ?
We've now established that Housing Associations do get a chunk of funding from the taxpayer. Local Authorities (ie Councils) raise their money from Council Tax Payers and also get public money from Central Govt - does that answer your question ?
Those councils who like you assume have got the cost back in rent should be doing the decent thing and putting that surplus money into building new council stock. Why haven't Labour Councils built any new houses ?
If Comrade Bob's house needs a new boiler or windows he doesn't have to dip into his own pocket like I do
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26th November 2013 #14
why haven't the Tory councils built one house then ?
We've now established that Housing Associations do get a chunk of funding from the taxpayer. Local Authorities (ie Councils) raise their money from Council Tax Payers and also get public money from Central Govt - does that answer your question ?
councils give 0 to the housing associations thru the poll tax, infact its the other way around with the Tory 'right to buy', its the Housing associations that have to give the council money from the sale
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26th November 2013 #15If Comrade Bob's house needs a new boiler or windows he doesn't have to dip into his own pocket like I do
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Essentially he can afford his own house and is depriving someone of a council house, someone who has nothing to do with political decisions.
Not acceptable.
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26th November 2013 #19
isn't he a taxpayer dedworth a higher rate taxpayer
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It reminds me of Lotto winners who vow to keep their job/council house-if you have done good then perhaps you can give up your council house?
Are they not for the less well off?
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"It's not the fact that I had it so bad that pisses me off. It is the fact that others had it so good." A Jack Nicholson line from "As Good As It Gets."
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