Why do people like you make up lies like these? Don’t tell

Comment on Labour Policies : Labour Housing Policy by David.

Why do people like you make up lies like these? Don’t tell me, you plan to vote BNP.

Social housing is based on a points based system, not whether you work or not or ability to pay the rent! Paying rent has noting whatsoever to do with getting social housing since those who can not afford rent get housing benefit (that would include you if you were telling the truth).

You say you live at home with parents and you are a single mother.

If this was true, you will gain points based on your circumstances, if the property you live in is suitable for you and your child(ren) you won’t get many points, if it isn’t suitable you will get more points. More points you get, closer to getting social housing, being in work is not part of the system for awarding housing.

It’s based on need and need alone.

There will always be those who find themselves in more need than you under your current situation, people with no home at all. You have a roof over your head, they do not.

Is it fair that those in greater need than you get a home while you’ve been waiting longer than they have? No.

Would it be fair for you to get a home while those in greater need than you became homeless? No.

It’s an imperfect system because there’s not enough social housing, blame the Conservatives in the first instance for selling off council housing and not replacing it and the Labour government for not reversing the trend (they’ve done a little, but not nearly enough).

Immigrants do not take loads of council houses, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5384516.stm

“As of June 2006, 110 council homes across England had been let to Accession Eight workers – representing 0.04% of the total number of available homes.”

Makes me angry when people like you make up crap like this to demonise migrant workers when they are not even eligible to go on council waiting lists in most areas.

Lets imagine you are being truthful, how would giving up your job get you a council house exactly?

Note: I’ve lived in council and housing association properties up until about 5 years ago when we bought our first home. I understand how the system works as I’ve had the tenancy to 5 council/housing association properties in my life and had to wait for enough points to move to better properties (and lived in another 4 council properties as a child) with the last one we got via the Homeswap scheme (find a tenant who will swap tenancies with you).

I got my first 1 bedroom council flat when I was 17 because I was living in a cupboard (5 1/2 foot long by about 4 foot, with the cold water tank above my head) in my Gran’s bedsit that was within a warden controlled property (technically homeless as I wasn’t supposed to live there). Before that lived with my Gran in another warden controlled 1 bedroom flat and I slept in a cupboard that was ~5ft by 3 ft in size, slept at an angle on foam (too small for a mattress). And I was working on a road at the time as a civil engineers assistant (carried the equipment) for £1 a hour.

If your right-wing argument is so strong why do you make BS up?

David