twenty first century britain

[cmonstanley]

i cant believe this is happening in twenty first century britain BBC News - 'Sheds with beds' are London's modern day slums and with less civil servants to implement law its only going to get worse

[Margaret Pilkington]

Why start a new thread for this? You usually put this kind of stuff into the tories thread, don't you?

[cmonstanley]

this deserves a thread on its own and a local council thing with planning permission etc

[cashman]

If yeh can't believe this is happening, yer living in a dream world, Things like this have always gone on, remember cardboard city, That was worse than sheds, wish i'd led such a sheltered life.

[garinda]

This has been happening in London for a number of years.

Most of the shed dwellers are migrants from eastern Europe.

The problem arose when Labour agreed to an open borders policy.

Subsequently three million people migrated into Britain, in the thirteen years Labour were in power.

No figure is known for those who entered the country illegally, under the same time scale.

More than three million migrants under Labour - Telegraph

These aren't Britons, who've lost their homes.

They are economic migrants, who decided to relocate to one of the most expensive cities in the world, and who've decided life at the bottom of someone's garden, is preferable to living in eastern Europe.

London's streets might not be paved with gold.

But with our generous welfare system, it is seen by some as the Land of Milk and Honey.

We make choices.

They have.

[Acrylic-bob]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

i cant believe this is happening in twenty first century britain BBC News - 'Sheds with beds' are London's modern day slums and with less civil servants to implement law its only going to get worse

What do you suggest we do about it?

Should we have someone from the council nip round with the keys to council houses for them?

Turf them all out of their sheds onto the streets?

Or perhaps we could get the Borders Agency to do a bit of overtime and round them all up for deportation?

What is your solution ?

[garinda]

I'd have love a shed in leafy Hampstead, when I first moved to London.

I was forced to live in Streatham.

Try getting a cab to take you south of the river, late on.

That was real degradation.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

i cant believe this is happening in twenty first century britain BBC News - 'Sheds with beds' are London's modern day slums and with less civil servants to implement law its only going to get worse

You ought to get out a bit more.

Leave your bothy. (Basically a Scottish shed, for those not in the know.)

Travel a little.

When I lived in Glasgow, 2001-2004, at which time I believe we had a Labour government, there were tons of people living under the bridges over the Clyde.

They'd have loved a nice warm shed, situated in the balmy metropolis, to live in.

They only had smack, and the warmth of their own wee-wee, to keep them snug.

[Acrylic-bob]

Originally Posted by garinda

I was forced to live in Streatham.

Oh! The ignominy. How did you bear it? Today's young know nothing of our struggles.

[Gordon Booth]

Now we know where hundreds of illegal immigrants are is it beyond the wit of the Metropolitan Police and Border Agency to round them up and send them home- it looks like they might be better off there.
Interesting that they said they were being ripped off and exploited by people from their own country-any comment, cmon?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Oh! The ignominy. How did you bear it? Today's young know nothing of our struggles.

It was a struggle, but I just got on with it.

Though it was in the glitzy mansion of a millionaire friend of my parents.

Ossy lad done good, on the back of filth.

But still, Streatham!

Cynthia Payne popping round to borrow the hose pipe...for God knows what.

Never knowing if you'd wake up to find Lord Montague of Beaulieu chatting to Alan Bates, perched on the end of your bed...again.

Not knowing if that Paul Grady might be loitering in the kitchen, with Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen.

Six years I suffered.

I couldn't wait until I moved out.

To Tooting.

[garinda]

People save up round here, and hope they live long enough, to live in a shed, down the Ribble Valley.

Or as they call them, retirement village chalets.

[Acrylic-bob]

Originally Posted by garinda

To Tooting.

So it was out of the frying pan into the fire then. My heart breaks for you darling.

[Boeing Guy]

They arn't Dog Stabbers by any chance????

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

So it was out of the frying pan into the fire then. My heart breaks for you darling.

The flat came with the office.

When I took over as leader, of the Tooting Poplular Front.

Up the Lido!