Sam
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Comment on: Take nothing for granted
" As one housing association chief executive puts it: ‘He is a typical minister - all ego. He simply does as he is told by those higher up the food chain.’ "
The egotistical Minister and the arrogant Fat Cat?
The public voted for change and vested interest will fight it. Shame. -
Comment on: TSA prepares new criteria
Good comment, Paul. Perhaps the TSA too thinks its days are numbered and the best option is to make a lot of noise in order to justify sloping off into retirement with as much wonga as possible. That would be an incentive for the aggressive pursuit of nonsense.
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Comment on: Regeneration vital for northern economy
This is a group of development agencies producing a report that says there's a need for more regeneration.
Where is the report that provides credible evidence that regeneration causes economic growth?
So long as the regeneration industry is unable to demonstrate a direct link between regeneration and economic growth, we should view the industry as a gravy train. -
Comment on: Evictions soar in buy-to-let centres
Fifty year old lyrics shouldn't sound like they were written yesterday!
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Comment on: Evictions soar in buy-to-let centres
I can't see any good reason for allowing the buy-to-let boom to happen. Shelter is a human need, like air, food or water, and to allow one section of the community to corner the market and hold to ransom people less fortunate than themselves has always struck me as distasteful. The notion that current private rent levels are somehow right, and that public rent levels should rise to that level is a baseless argument.
But some of the people who set out to exploit the poor think they are suffering. Whether or not there is any logic in easing their burden, they may prove a potent force at the ballot box, so we may see the suffering spread around a bit amongst those less well off - for example our "hard working families", or the general public through the HB system.
Michael's poem beautifully parodies that side of our nature which is to succour those more fortunate than ourselves. Sometimes, we are our own worst enemies.
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