shortage of school places...

[Von Boy]

Well yet again another problem arises from New Labour's lost of immigration controls... a massive baby boon 4/5 years ago is going to put problems on school places... a quarter of a million extra places by 2014...the largest increase since the late 1950's

Now I know Sir D Johnson will shoot from the hip about this, but sadly its and hard working, average family that's going to suffer....not any body in politics!! Its not about RED or BLUE !

Oh... Tony Blair is reported to be buying a 10 million Swiss Franc villa near Lake Geneva.... lovely stuff...!

[Arginald Valleywater]

Truth is Asian and Eastern European Catholic familes have more kids. As do those stupid enough to think that the easy way to challenge welfare reform is push out more illegitimate future Jeremy Kyle stars. Many of my hard working friends and colleagues have 1 or at max 2 children. To raise them in a quality home environment is hideously expensive and as such they are creating smaller but more workable families. I can't afford a Ferrari so I don't have one. If you can't afford to raise children then keep your fucking legs shut because I don't see why I should pay for them instead. My friend's mother is a school secretary, has 5 kids of her own (now all employed and contributing to society). She struggled with 2 jobs and her husband worked bloody hard. She gets annoyed when Samantha Slackfanny has 3 kids to three different fathers and turns up at the school grasping the latest I-phone and bleating about how hard it is run a home and watch SKY HD at the same time. There are already too many people on the planet, responsible parenting or war over food and water? Take your choice......

[David Johnson]

"Well yet again another problem arises from New Labour's lost of immigration controls.."

"Its not about RED or BLUE !"

I will leave you to argue with yourself. Let me know who wins.

[David Johnson]

Of course, the number of children per family has gone down from the 1950's for example. And the abortion rate has gone up.

But you don't deal in that kind of stuff. You invent "friends" and "colleagues" to support your views. I have worked out that the Housing Association in Cumbria that has bizarrely employed someone who appears to have utter contempt for their customers (make believe or otherwise) has approximately 1,000 employees based on your references to "colleagues".

Grow up, Argie!

[Arginald Valleywater]

Sorry DJ but we have invested a pathetic ?110m into our homes over the past decade so we actually like them! Without us they would be living in badly repaired, out of date, energy efficient homes. Many of our tenants work. It is the "world owes me a living, where's me SKY HD remote brigade" that are always rolled out as victims. There is little or no real poverty in the UK yet people think some social housing tenants live in slums like India or the favelas in Brazil. What we are seeing is our non UK born tenants making no effort to control their family size, particularly the Polish and Portuguese. They think we should give them a bigger home every time they have another child. There are very few homes in my City bigger than 4 beds, unless you count old merchant type homes from the 19th Century. The largest new builds are those erected by hard working business owners who have earned them. If you are poor you should consider bringing another child into the world if you cannot afford it. Children are first and foremost the parents responsibility, not the hard working tax payer. Rule Britannia.

[David Johnson]

"but we have invested a pathetic ?110m into our homes over the past decade so we actually like them!"

Well, that is the whole purpose of Housing Associations isn't it? They are non-profit making organisations largely set up when Thatcher decided to devastate the social housing market by flogging off the stock. In 2004 the British government accepted an EU ruling that considered housing associations as public bodies for the purposes of procurement. So in fact you are a public sector worker with a final salary pension. Just the sort of person Nigel Farage despises.

"Many of our tenants work."

Halle fucking lujah. Instead of wittering on endlessly about the small proportion that take the piss, like a tenth rate Daily Mail, totally ignoring the fact that most of your tenants work, why not concentrate on the good things Housing Associations do to help decent tenants who are doing their best to provide for their families.

Like I've said the average size of families in the UK has gone done in the UK since the 60s and the abortion rate gone up. Why not concentrate on that, rather than again like the overwhelmingly extreme right wing newspapers concentrating on the extremes i.e. Bert from Bermondsey who has 10 kids etc etc.

Think for yourself!!!