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Yes - perhaps a family is more in need of housing than a single person.

But what if the family is not British?

Your nationality and/or race entitles you to fuck all

Firstly - what the f*** has "race" got to do with it? I am not talking about race, so why are you?

Secondly - YES my nationality bloody well DOES entitle me to more in my OWN country.

By YOUR logic, then to say that someone's nationality makes no difference, you think that we should open all our borders and let the whole world and his wife come and live here. And if they need housing, then give it to them.

Well if YOU want to pay for them with your taxes then be my guest. But I do not agree to do so.

Anyone with half a brain could figure that out.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 19:45, 3 replies)

No. It doesn't.
Housing. Is. Based. On. Need.

There are certain criteria a non-uk national must meet before they are allowed on the housing list, but once on there it is down to need. You were not trying to raise a family of three children in one room. You weren't at risk of abuse or illness. If the house was filthy, there was nothing stopping you cleaning the house. You weren't on the streets. You weren't 'disadvantaged'. Not compared to others on the list. It really is *that* simple.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 6 Apr 2010, 20:26, closed)

More to the point
he says he was renting, which implies he could afford to pay rent, which raises the question of why he didn't move somewhere else and pay rent in a less squalid sounding flat. Surely he wasn't trying to scrounge off the state when he had his own means?
(Bazongaloid, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 20:33, closed)

Heaven forfend that a bigot could be a fuckwitted hypocrite as well, Al. HEAVEN FORFEND.

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 6 Apr 2010, 20:35, closed)

I don't believe such a thing to be possible
I've never even met someone who said this had happened, therefore it cannot be true.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 20:37, closed)

Irony is not a metal
big·ot (bgt)
n.

One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
(Audax Victor, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 11:46, closed)

Erm, I think I'll go on a different tack here.
what in the name of sweet shuddering fuck makes it "your" country? Is your name on the deeds of the Land Registry?

Or is it because you were born here? does that convey ownership? So if you happened to have been born in Germany (say) while your parents were over there for 6 months, but grew up here, does that mean all bets are off?

Or do you think it's yours because your parents were born here? or their parents? What's the dividing point? Do I get to only complain about 3/4 of the immigrants because one of my grandparents wasn't British?

I realise I'm completely wasting my fucking time, because you are a lost cause, as illustrated with the "let the world and his wife come here" comment. If you truly cannot see how utterly fucking bigoted you are because you are referring to other human beings as a defined group by nationality first, as if you can define like that. "all forrins are spongers" basically. Do you reckon that's somehow less repellant than "all muslims are bombers?" or "all blacks are criminals" .. ? I'd love to know how you draw your distinctions.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 10:12, closed)

If all foreign people working in the UK sent their taxes to their home country you might...just might have a point
But they don't, so you don't.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 18:04, closed)