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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:eek:

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

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

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

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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.

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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 ?

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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.

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

:D

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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.

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

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

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The flat came with the office.

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

Up the Lido!

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Just occurred to me...... So what if it does get worse? What do illegals n the like deserve cmon? Housing? Please tell us.:rolleyes:

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The thing is I don't know C'mon from Adam, but I'm pretty sure I'd recognise him if I met him in the street, he'd be the one with a very bad limp, he's shot himself in the foot so many times. I'm sure he never really thinks anything out before falling over himself to post on here:rolleyes:

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Now Cashy, don't be holding your breath while you wait.
That question is far to hard for him to get to grips with.

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I realise that,but he did raise the subject.:rolleyes:

Perhaps if you were to put forward a solution, he could copy and paste it?

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Cashy wouldn't get it published in the Guardian Less, for him copy and past:rolleyes:

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i would employ more people and speed up the process of people wanting to leave as it says in the article people cant leave because the process is too slow;)

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You mean that these people want to leave????? Only if they can take their benefits with them!

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Complete nonsense they have destroyed I.D.s so they couldnt be deported,:rolleyes:

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cmon, you don't even listen to your own attachment-there's no mention of a slow process and on the news tonight it said we can't send them home because they destroyed all their papers and passports when they got here so they can't prove who they are.
Also the Indian Government officials are not co-operating,looks like they don't want them back!

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You may as well read this here before you read it in the national press or see it on the BBC.

Given the scale of London's problem - an estimated 450,000 kipping in sheds, under railway arches, in garages, etc, in the capital - Mayor Boris has agreed with a number of northern local authorities to share the burden. In return for 72 tickets for the Olympic 100 metres men's final (for councillors and partners), HBC will be taking 3,529 individuals to be dispersed throughout the borough. Many of these will be placed in allotment sheds (which goes towards explaining the rise in rents). All tenants will be expected to fully cooperate with the council and ensure their sub-tenants are well looked after with full consideration for their ethnic, cultural and religious needs. Most sheds will therefore have to be repositioned so that they point towards Mecca and be fully carpeted throughout (Axminster preferred). Naturally, no pigs will be allowed.

The formal announcement will be made this Friday, after HBC council prayers.

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Tealeaf, you shouldn't be giving the powers that be ideas like that.......They might just do it!

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but david cameron promised ,no ifs no buts on immigration:rolleyes: just as i have explained through the years the tories alway do the opposite to what they are saying.

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Apparently so Margaret. Have a read at this from the BBC website.

BBC News - The illegal immigrants desperate to escape squalor of Britain

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The problem with many of them is their own country's High Commission.

They aren't in any hurry to have them back.

Perhaps you should volunteer, and go and lend them a hand.

I can give you the address of a very nice shed in Streatham.

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As opposed to Labour?

Who simply told lies.

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Well Cmon sure as hell aint doin em any favours.:rolleyes:

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I get it, we cannot make cuts to encourage growth, but we can spend our way out of debt.:D

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Ya and in 97 the cry was things can only get better, take a look at the dogs breakfast they left when Gordon was kick out on his butt before he could turn our country into a fully fledged banana republic, the only thing Labour have ever done when leaving office is leave the country in a hell of a worse state than when the took over.

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Must be a scottish thing BG, Gordon, Alistair, RBS, Craig Whyte, not right good with money matters are they:rolleyes:

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Now Jay, you have to remember that according to C'mon the world did not start until May 2010, after all he has NEVER said a bad thing about the Labour Government while they were in power:eek:

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:eek::eek:BG I'm shocked by that statement, your not saying that C'Mon is a tad blinkered are you:eek:

Yes, he got his from the same store that you purchased your's, (though being a labourite, he bought the economy set).

I believe yours come with a thirteen year guarantee?

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United Kingdom Unemployment Rate fact tories = unemployment

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I have been told by the mods that post such as this would be treated as spam, funny that

If you know your post is spam, why did you put it on?

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:130:The trouble is I didn't think it was, it sure had more accompanied wording than the last attempt from North of the Border

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ohh and benefit cheats will really be shakking in their boots http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/n...ote=1&p=973863 who is looking through with a fine tooth comb:D:D:D:D ids you sacked half of the civil service off if you remember and are stealing their pensions.. he really is an idiot:eek:

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Well they do say it takes one to know one.:D

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as does labour MP graham jones.

Infact im pretty sure there isnt one single MP in todays bunch that has kept tehir election prommises or backed up what they say they will do

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cmon, what are you drinking? First- your post is gobbledygook, second- your attachment takes me to a reply box!
Drink some strong coffee and start again.

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thank you Gordon....I was going to post something along similar lines, but to be honest I couldn't be bothered...the man never listens to anything other than sensationalist rhetoric anyway.

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Yeh aint learnt lesson 1 yet Gordon.........Ignore his links.:D

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Gordon you would have more sense in trying to get your head around Yes lryics.
Eg: Going for the One
"Get the idea cross around the track
Underneath the flank of thoroughbred racing chasers.
Getting the feel as a river flows.
Would youlike to go 'n shoot the mountain masses?
And here you stand no taller than the grass sees.
And should you really chase so hard.
The truth of sport plays rings around you."

And for that matter much more enjoyment:p

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Can't fault that BG, and you don't need a scotch lilt either:D

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A little thing, off topic but who cares, it's for a friend....

Genesis - Entangled - YouTube

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Now cashman, perhaps one of these days, when he's forgotten where he left the bottle, he'll have a half hour of sobriety and start a thread or do a post of such brilliance we'll be stunned!
Think, if you don't try to read them all you might just miss that one gem!

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Oh i used to many moons ago Gordon, to be honest think i'd find more gems on Whinney Hill Tip.:D