I was not living in comfort with my parents
I was RENTING a tiny room in a three-bedroom house.
The two reception rooms were being used as bedrooms - meaning that there was no common area apart from the kitchen and bathroom.

There was one toilet being used between six people (there was a couple in one room).

The house was filthy, and there were cockroaches.

I was NOT in comfort. I could not afford a place of my own, and I needed out.

But because I was a single male and not an asylum seeker, I was given "lowest priority".

If you want to criticise me, then first you should walk a mile in my shoes.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 19:31, 2 replies)

I have. You're obviously bitter about what happened, and decided to blame the first group possible. It's wrong, but understandable.
The facts are simple. There is a limited amount of social housing due to the 'right to buy' schemes introduced in the 1980s by Thatcher. The social housing that *is* available, has to be allocated based on need. You didn't *need* to be housed urgently, and therefore you wait. That is how the system works - regardless of whether you are a national or an immigrant. If it didn't, then Britain would be much, much worse off.

Before asylum seekers, it was single mothers. We all got free houses and money for nothing, whilst the poor working-class, single man was left without a council house. Now it's the fault of someone else. Excuse me whilst I try to give a fuck.

*tries*
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 6 Apr 2010, 20:32, closed)

Fucking hell, Wicca.
Imagine not having a reception room. Just IMAGINE. That's worse than Hitler*. We should definitely put families on the street so your man can watch telly in a different room to the one he sleeps in.

*yes, that is an post-modern ironic playing of the Hitler card. Oh, I went there.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 10:15, closed)

So what was stopping you, you know, getting a job and renting somewhere else?
Why do you deserve free housing?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 17:58, closed)