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maybe if you went back to school and learned a little about the English language we might just be able to decipher exactly what your talking about:rolleyes:

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Has the first of the Romanians arrived? Will they all be like this? Surely some can speak English.

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looks like the poster was educated(or not, as the case maybe) in the same school as the wee chappie over the border.
His posts make about the same sense too.

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Ya Margaret think they must have gone to the same approved school:rolleyes:

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:Eeh, I near on widdled meself reading that ! ;)

That, or the over exuberant imbibing of dubious illicit herbage, or large quantities of inebriant, actually, possibly both. :idunno:

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Please Dave don't even try to compare any of my posts the that total load of rubbish being posted as English by this guy :(

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Jay mate, your secrets safe with me ......................... AW & the users of the WWW. :D I was referring to your penchant for Jaysayisms, priceless & unique, otf copied but sorely lacking in originality. :)

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Go on I'll let you off then:rolleyes:

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If you live in a big posh house in a nice area you would expect to be paying more council tax and rightly so.

If you rent a house that has more bedrooms than you actually need is it really fair to expect the taxpayer to pay for your extra, empty rooms?

I know there are exceptions, people who need an overnight carer, pensioners, people who have recently lost a partner(and more). These exceptions are right, they shouldn't be penalised.

I accept that 1 bedroomed properties are now going to be at a premium, and there aren't many around. BUT there are far too many single people or families with 1 child living in social housing (by which I mean old council stock semis)with 3 or 4 bedrooms when other families who need the extra rooms are being crammed into 1 bedroomed flats or bed and breakfast places.

At the end of the day my taxes are paying for some families on benefits to have an "ironing room", a "spare room", an "office" . You have a bigger property, you have to pay for it, it's been this way for privately rented property for years under the LHA rules, it's all about balancing it out.

( Benefits Assessor)

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Why?...Would you be getting more council services than someone living in an unposh house in an un-nice area?

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Until the government force landlords to charge less rent then nobody should be forced to pay more for empty rooms. Rent prices are stupidly high and housing benefit is quite low from what I have heard. I have been working for over 10 years so I don't know for sure.

Its not like the town is filled to the brim with 1 bedroom properties. They are rare and price of rent is too high. Say for example one place that was one bedroom and it was £400 per month. The house I am renting is £77.50 per week and its 2 bedrooms. The house next door is 3 bedrooms and the landlord wants £120 per week. Times that by 52 and then divide by 12 and its £520 per month. Its daft!

A house is turned into 2 1 bedroom flats. Landlord wants £400 for each. Housing benefit wont pay £400 or am I wrong?

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and heres the truth coming out New claimants facing 'bedroom tax' (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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but what if you need 24 hour care you are paralyzed from the neck down and need a spare room for your carer.

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Do you think the reason the rents are so high is because the benefits system would pay what the landlords were asking so they just kept increasing it?

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I don't agree with that.

I agree with that in principle but there are always exceptions and that is what we hear about in the news all the time.