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I think this post sums it all up really well, for the ordinary everyday person living in London finding a decent place to live at a rent that is truly affordable is just a fantasy, a bit like your post DG.
Fishislandskin | 04.11.16 - 7:11 a.m. | #
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Dg for mayor...
Dan | 04.11.16 - 7:24 a.m. | #
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Oh...dg
louise | 04.11.16 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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Plenty of rental flats in Bedford I hear.
Sandra | 04.11.16 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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Of course one entry per household doesn't work when you live in a shared flat...! Cracking post though!
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Do unmarried couples living in the same flat get one ticket each? How about married couples living apart but not divorced? (ditto civil partners)
How about adult children living with their parents? One household, or more (depending on number of children)?
(Yes, I know this is satire, but this this sort of point illustrates how difficult it can be to set the boundaries for tax and social security benefits.)
Andrew | 04.11.16 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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These "satire" fantasy left-wing posts are not very good.
Andy | 04.11.16 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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The Mayor, Sadiq Khan, really has been keen to make it clear that he's the mayor in press releases, hasn't he?
(I suppose he could start using the version of the 'MAYOR OF LONDON' logo with the red 'ON' again, which was one of the first Ken-era things which Boris ditched)
martin | 04.11.16 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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Surely the Destination Borough should be picked out of a jam jar?
Sarah | Homepage | 04.11.16 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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"many a true word spoken in jest"
Jerym | 04.11.16 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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Now if I own a place in the country outside London, but rent a small flat in London, do I qualify?
I do hope so, The Manor House is so expensive to run, I do need to economise, a bit.
Ray | 04.11.16 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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Why are these 'satire left-wing posts' not very good, Andy? Because they show up what a shit unfair world we live in thanks to 'the 1%'? Because they show how little power even the most powerful elected Labour office holder actually has to change the world we live in, even?
Brian | 04.11.16 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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Ray: "The Manor House is so expensive to run"
Try Turnpike Lane, it's cheaper.
langdon | 04.11.16 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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Andy; if you're not being "satiric" yourself, you don't have to read them.
Tim | 04.11.16 - 9:32 a.m. | #
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Brian: Why do you have an expectation that the world should be "fair" ? It isn't and never will be. Even if politicians could make that kind of difference, that isn't what they do.
For all its satire,I can guarantee that some idiot working for the mayor is going "hang on, that isn't such a bad idea..."
Jimbo | 04.11.16 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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There's clearly room to extend this idea to other areas. How about the "Season Ticket Raffle"? Especially useful for those in the South.
Julian Bond | Homepage | 04.11.16 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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Langdon
"Try Turnpike Lane, it's cheaper."
Strangly enough I left there 50 odd years ago.
Ray | 04.11.16 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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I don't know about Brian's expectations, but according to mine, rather more "fairness" in the world would be highly desirable.
Agreed, we're never going to get total fairness, that is probably undefineable and certainly unachievable. But many of us would prefer more fairness (or justice, as it is sometimes called), and are prepared to work for it.
Research seems to show that the nations with the highest happiness levels (hard to measure, I know) are those with the least inequality.
Malcolm | 04.11.16 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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The Mayor should adopt this. Probably rehouse more people than any current plan will...
IslandDweller | 04.11.16 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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I'm not sure why pointing out how expensive housing is, is considered 'left wing', high housing costs are suffocating the economy.
How much of the £ 25 billion spent on housing benefit goes to 'poor' landlords, as opposed to making millionaires rich?
There are those who genuinely think that there is no connection between high housing costs and for example, the lack of carers, thus preventing elderly people from being discharged from hospital and driving up costs in the NHS.
Still anon | 04.11.16 - 10:32 a.m. | #
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Malcolm - Fairness and justice are two quite different concepts.
Note that the criteria to take part in the raffle are " Tickets will be available to any adult with a registered London address who does not own property in the capital." So DG will be able to buy one....
Messiah | 04.11.16 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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Sounds like a good idea to me. Isn't that what the postcode lottery is? Except the tickets cost £1squillion and you win an entire postcode?
Uncle Audrey | 04.11.16 - 11:53 a.m. | #
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These "satire" fantasy posts are very good.
Frank F | 04.11.16 - 11:56 a.m. | #
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Oh, jimbo, did you never hear of "tempering the wind to the shorn lamb"?
Of course the world will never be "fair" - it's a permanently variable and debatable concept: but that is hardly a reason for not trying, still less for fostering a world in which it's made ever more difficult. And trying is what politicians are there to do. Made a pretty fair stab at it 1945-51, in much more adverse circumstances, too.
Autolycus | Homepage | 04.11.16 - 12:58 p.m. | #
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The simple fact is there are too many people in London, but we aren't allowed to blame it on uncontrolled migration, oh no. They're not connected at all.
Everyone wants housing/NHS etc to improve but where does the money come from? (hear the silence....)
Keep dreaming of a socialist utopia where we all pay higher taxes for decent affordable housing/NHS, it won't ever happen in the UK
People vote with their wallet and don't trust politicians not to waste our money on Trident, HS2, Iraq, Syria, PFI, Hinkley Point, Garden Bridge, etc.
DG - I'd get back to your normal blog entries. These type of angry teenager "society comment" entries are pretty poor.
Bert | 04.11.16 - 1:01 p.m. | #
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I think it's a brilliant post. I'm never *quite* sure if DG's being serious or not, so cleverly written are they!
*starts grubbing around down the back of the sofa in hopes of scraping together £5, just in case*
Cornish Cockney | 04.11.16 - 1:19 p.m. | #
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Stick to the bus stop chat in future.
blueb | 04.11.16 - 1:30 p.m. | #
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It's DG's blog, so he can and does write what he wants in the style he chooses. It's for us to read or abandon as we choose. For me, I read and mostly enjoy greatly, not least because of the great variety and humour. It's irrelevant to wish for something different. For something else, perhaps DIY. Brightens up the day for me.
Herbof | 04.11.16 - 2:06 p.m. | #
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I thought it was an excellent post too - entertaining, thought-provoking and beautifully written.
I don't understand people who comment on blogs to say that the blogger should have written something different - if you don't like it, just read a different blog! There are plenty to choose from.
Psssst... Some (rare) days dg writes something that doesn't interest me. So I skim over it and come back another day. I don't feel the need to tell him and the world that I didn't like it.
Sarah | Homepage | 04.11.16 - 3:38 p.m. | #
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Messiah: I know that fairness and justice are different. But there is considerable overlap. Women working(on average) longer hours than men, and receiving (on average) less pay is both unfair and unjust. And that is just one example among many possible ones.
There are also, of course, some examples of things which are just but unfair, or fair but unjust. But rather more, I submit, where fairness and justice go hand-in-hand.
Malcolm | 04.11.16 - 4:28 p.m. | #
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Sarah: I suggest that the objectors to today's post are not just "not interested" in its content. They are actively opposed to the message behind it. If DG wrote something to which I felt actively opposed (it hasn't happened yet), then I hope I would say so.
Malcolm | 04.11.16 - 4:32 p.m. | #
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Malcolm - I can understand people arguing, if they believe a blogger has posted something that is wrong. A lively debate in the comments is good. But a lot of these comments here are people saying he shouldn't be writing about the subject at all, and I don't think it's reasonable to try to tell a blogger what they should write about just because you like some of their posts but not others.
Sarah | 04.11.16 - 10:20 p.m. | #
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Oh man, the future...
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 04.11.16 - 10:28 p.m. | #
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Sarah: Yes, I agree. I was perhaps pointing out that some commenters' assertion that DG "should not be writing about" certain topics was actually a coded way of saying that they did not like their own ideas of what is right and wrong being challenged by what DG writes.
Of course if they do not like what he writes, they can choose to look elsewhere. But when they do not do so, they are at least engaging with these so-called "left wing ideas", and maybe ultimately learning something along the way, as well as telling us which popular ideas they themselves subscribe to.
Us so-called left-wingers should not be just talking in our own little bubble among ourselves, we should be exchanging ideas with members of the other herd.
Malcolm | 04.11.16 - 11:23 p.m. | #
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The troll who posted three times today, under three different names, is no doubt delighted with all the attention they've received in today's comments.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.11.16 - 11:24 p.m. | #
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^ Trolling, I think, is a much bigger factor in the death of the commenting culture than people realise.
Mr Green | 05.11.16 - 5:25 a.m. | #
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Do we get a list for "the rest of the world" places you been to?
Grumpy Anon | 06.11.16 - 1:18 a.m. | #
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