ChavWivaLawDegree

If you have a normal tenancy (not a licence), the landlord or his agent is not allowed to enter your home without giving you 7 days prior notice as far as I remember from Land Law. Not sure if one notice is ok for multiple visits tho, but I know you are entitled to peaceful enjoyment of your property even if you are not the owner.

lawyer to the mob may be one such example!

Hmmn, you lot are actually quite a nice liberal bunch behind the tough exterior. I employed a childminder/cleaner years ago through a friend who worked with ex-offenders. She was a hard worker, but when her boyfriend got out of prison about a year later, she nicked a couple of stupid things, so I sacked her. Most of the people I know have some form or other though, and they are mostly nice people Nice replies everyone by the way.

Yeh jus got it

Lets start a petition demanding Snorky's human right to freedom of speech be respected!!

If you had a job vacancy, and someone who had done some time in prison for theft or drugs applied for the job, would you automatically disregard their application, or would you look at their qualifications, experience and any changes since their crime/s and weigh it all up?

Better hide the poppers!

Me - I'm always right!

Being a bit of an old perve myself (and formerly a young perve), perves of any gender get my sympathy! I'm hoping the menopause will bring some relief from this debilitating condition.

Ok seeing as you asked - I was standing as a Green councillor in Chaucer ward, when I started my blog.

I thought you meant the Gallaghers from Shameless at first, so was a bit puzzled! Did I get the name right? I'm crap with names.

Downsouth - I agree with you, but the villains are not the councils, who have a statutory duty to house the homeless and vulnerable in a dwindling housing stock which makes it much more difficult for less vulnerable people to get a tenancy. Central government are happy when we blame each other for our woes. Divide and conquer, but we need to lift our eyes a little higher to see who is really to blame.

"?300k for a flat in Elephant? Now, that is theft." - I think that was the value of the 2 bed next door tho about 4 years ago, so probably more now but I totally agree!!

BBC is bloody great, can't stand watching/listening to adverts from some slick arsehole trying to get everyone paranoid about their breath/toilet/armpits/spots/fat bits etc. What's wrong with hi-brow. I know taxi-drivers who listen to Radio 4 all day. I listen to radio 4 and the world service pretty much all day too. Can't be bothered watching a lot of telly, but we all pay the licence fee, so we should all be catered for. Lo-Hi, and middle brow.

He was nice to look at but not that smart!

I'm on my soap box now anyway!

I love council housing. My grandad fought for it and was a Labour councillor and Alderman of Liverpool for years. So was my Dad. You are not means tested for council accomodation. Everyone has a right to it, even you Maurice, but you get priority if you are homeless, are overcrowded, disabled. have kids etc. Now that people have been buying up council properties for the last 20 odd years and hardly any have been built to replace them, there is a lot of competition to get one and a lot of acrimony directed at those who manage to become a council tenant. Far from you subsidising council housing, the rents are collected by central government and handed out in various proportions to the councils and privately run housing associations as incentives to try to compete with the more efficient public housing sector. Some is kept by the Treasury. The money from the sale of council housing is also held by the Treasury and cannot be used to build new council housing. So in fact it is the tenants of council housing subsidising you, not the other way around. By restricting the number of council properties with realistic rents, all you lovely people who are already on the private housing ladder, have seen your house prices go up and up and up and the private rental market has also gone through the roof, especially the smart ones who call their houses hostels, and charge ?350 per room per person to the council to house all the homeless people on their lists ... who can't get a council place. If Central government hadn't tied the hands of the councils to give their landlord and property developer friends a leg up, the councils would have been able to build more properties, fix up the ones they have, and none of you lot would have bothered moving to East Dulwich, because property would still be seen as somewhere you live, rather than an exchangable commodity. So you see, your arse was subsidised by us, take off our handcuffs, and we will outcompete you again. Also, If there weren't any council tenants around here, how would you get your babies looked after, your toilets cleaned, your lawns mowed, your cars fixed, your hair cut and all the other things you pay people like me to do for you. I could have bought my 4 bed flat in Elephant for ?15,000 in 1998, but I didn't because I felt like that would be theft. It is now valued at ?300,000 but I still feel like I did the right thing, as I was able to move to a 3 bed house when my 2 eldest kids left home. One last thing, I studied law because I am interested in politics not money, and law is the rules to the system I want to fight. I have no wish to take the dull-as-fu(k LPC, join the restrictive Law Society or become a wage slave. My freedom is way too important to me for that, and the law degree was at Westminster Uni, not the Open Uni. It was full-time, I worked part-time as a fitness instructor, was chair of my tenants association, sat on our safer neighbourhood police panel and looked after my kids and still got a 2:1. So stop being a patronising tw@t.

AlanD - Said "You are a bit hard on people especially those with status symbols you can't afford or conversely houses that aren't as good as yours". I just wondered why you think that people who dislike ostentatious status symbols are envious? I dislike flashy displays of wealth because they are crass and can exaccerbate class divisions. How can anyone with a place in the middle or upper rungs of the ladder, but who live in close proximity to people who inhabit the bottom rungs of the ladder, expect to be able to flash their cash without getting up people's noses. If you go to certain areas of the world, you are told not to walk about with your valuables on display, because it is a poor country/area etc and you are likely to get robbed/beaten up/kidnapped etc. Most people who travel abroad understand this. Why do you think poor people in this country should feel more welcoming to 'rich' tourists/incomers etc than the poor in other countries? Why do you think you have a right to be safe from attack when you don't ensure your poor neighbours manage to grow up safe, properly fed and well educated? If we, as a community and society don't look after the children born into disadvantaged situations, then we will get the society we deserve, and unless you are going to build a huge wall around you, you had better get used to it because with peak oil and climate change induced inflation, and without some kind of equitable sharing of our dwindling resources, it will only get worse.

I'm gona try make it, and will make sure ex-bf doesn't track me down this time!

Pretty sickening if you ask me. If the same kinds of prices could be got on the train, we might stand some chsnce of changing people's flying habits. I think aviation fuel should have a high tax throughout europe, and train travel should get all the subsidies the roads currently do.

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph" - nearly fell off my chair laughing!

cookwank?

Or over a plate of eclairs in the sitting room

Snorky, you can't do that to us! PM me the details pleeez!!

Brendan - Isn't that most men's experience of counselling already?? Man 1 - "You look pissed off, here have a drink" Man 2 - "Yeh, sorted"