UK Census

[Brazen]

More people now rent privately than rent from the council (down from 13% to 9%).

Yeah, cheers for the housing shortage Maggie.

The figures are distorted by private landlords renting to the council which is the case in at least two flats in my block. Same problem, but even more expensive for the council tax payer.

[Richard Hakluyt]

We've had 22 years since she was thrown out and the housing shortage has been evident since the war years and even before. She must truly be the Antichrist to have caused a 70-year long housing shortage 

[HVC]

We've had 22 years since she was thrown out and the housing shortage has been evident since the war years and even before. She must truly be the Antichrist to have caused a 70-year long housing shortage 

she's just that good at being bad

[Valmy]

We've had 22 years since she was thrown out and the housing shortage has been evident since the war years and even before. She must truly be the Antichrist to have caused a 70-year long housing shortage 

The important thing here is without her Britains would still be toiling away in coal mines.  WHAT A MONSTER!

[Brazen]

The important thing here is without her Britains would still be toiling away in coal mines.  WHAT A MONSTER!

If the mines were still open we'd have found a way to pay Eastern Europeans to do it and complain about them stealing our jobs and our right to emphysema.

[Richard Hakluyt]

We've had 22 years since she was thrown out and the housing shortage has been evident since the war years and even before. She must truly be the Antichrist to have caused a 70-year long housing shortage 

The important thing here is without her Britains would still be toiling away in coal mines.  WHAT A MONSTER!

The curious thing is that during Harold Wilson's tenure as PM over 300 pits were closed, I believe Maggie only managed about 60 or so. Having said that the best mines were closed last, so there was some hope c.1980 that the industry would cease shrinking.

[Neil]

Closing the coal mines was good for the environment.  Thatcher is a hero, Jos is an enviro-monster.

[Josquius]

We've had 22 years since she was thrown out and the housing shortage has been evident since the war years and even before. She must truly be the Antichrist to have caused a 70-year long housing shortage 

The right to buy and halt on building any more council houses really exasperated it a lot.

The important thing here is without her Britains would still be toiling away in coal mines.  WHAT A MONSTER!

....eh?

[Razgovory]

Yeah, enjoy your cultural suicide.

When was the American cultural suicide?

Civil Rights.  It's nice to see Derspeiss isn't disappointing in this thread.

[Ed Anger]

When they give the women the vote

[Richard Hakluyt]

I don't think cultural suicide is likely. It is a culture that was confined to 3m people on part of a small island 500 years ago. Now it is the dominant culture in North America and Australasia as well as virtually all the places in our archipelago. It has done that by constantly mutating whilst maintaining that tradition is always honoured and nothing ever changes..........quite a trick if you can pull it off.

What does concern me is integration and the potential formation of ghettoised groups. The black population, from Africa and the Caribbean, intermarries with the main population to an amazing extent ......to such an extent that they will not survive as a distinct group in the long run. The Irish are family, ok, it may be an abusive family especially in the past, but they are not "foreign". Poles and other Eastern European types; WW2 left about 300k Poles in Britain, by 2000 all that was left was a few ancients and British people with a strange name and a family history to tell. I think this will be repeated with the current crop, in any event the main difference is their language, the culture of our Polish immigrants is a good fit with lower-class British culture.

I do worry about the muslims. Many of our muslims come from crappy parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh.....which are hardly beacons of culture to start with. The intermarriage rate is also very low (it has crept up to 7% IIRC) and many cultural practices are not very compatible with British ways. We need to make education a priority for these people, otherwise their shitty position in British society could become a fixture.