Well I feel that I've more or less seen it all over the years I've lived here. What triggers this blog however were the arrest scenes of the alleged 21/7 would be suicide bombers. These Peabody housing estates comprise plush flats and seem ( indeed are) flush with non-white and non-UK originated people. See the two CS gassed suspects on the top floor balcony of one of these prestigeous blocks? Well that's rife throughout the capital. It seems the more foriegn, coffee coloured and dire straights pleading one is, the better ones chance of securing a quick Housing Association or Council flat.
What's the big deal about these these days you may ask. In the eighties the Thatcher govt. introduced new housing laws which did away with the former Protected Tenancy and introduced Regulated ones in the private sector, which essentially means that if one seeks to rent a property rather than buy, the dice are loaded with the landlord.
Formerly, with the Protected Tenancies, one could live in the property virtually as long as one wished as long as you kept your nose clean and payed the rent, which was assessed yearly by the Fair Rent tribunal. Fair enough. Now, one has to up and go at two months notice at the say so of the landlord. So no security of tenure and incentive to relax and make a home for yourself. The exception being these housing trusts, associations and council accomodation, which have kept the old Protected Tenancies on. But then they have filled most of their vacant stock over the years with asylum seekers and immigrants with family.
See this is only one law which the bitch on wheels Thatcher introduced to repress people and which the con Blair regime has kept unchanged.
My own personal experience includes languishing on Camden council's housing waiting list for 15 years, 10 of which were spent in a property deemed unfit for human habitation by the council themselves. Mid way through my stretch they changed their point allocation priority system and arbitarily took away my points for years spent on the list. When I complained about more ethnic people being housed than native and white English, I was told in no uncertain terms that Camden operated a policy of " positive discrimination" where they actively seek to give preference to overseas applicants and more specifically coloureds. Just see the madness.
I'd like to see all the local authority tenancies that have been given to people on false passports over the years freed up. There would be no housing crisis then, there would be enough for all.
Nowadays I lose interest, we must accept our nation and specifically London has been taken over by these vociferous ethnic groups - made up to a large percentage by illegal immigrants, many of them doing identity fraud - and will never be the same again. Politicians over the years are to blame, both Tory and Labour; they have betrayed the British people.
They had no right to inflict this mass immigration upon us, much of it illegal. These cultures by and large have no wish or intention of integrating - they are here for the beer and who can blame them. Britain is, as they say, a soft touch. Now we all must pay the price of further restrictions on our liberties, more checks on our day to day movements and financial transactions etc etc. Oh and, don't even think about applying for local authority housing in London -it's a closed shop.
One thing they can't take away (from me at least) is that I'm smarter than the average bear ( you have to be ) and have found a way to survive in London and live well, without being dependant on these PC nightmareTM idiots and outwith the evil control freak Blair's net of influence and Mr Brown nose's filthy grabbing mits.
Thank God.
MSM