In 31 mainly inner London neighbourhoods, the latest index reveals, practically every resident child lives in an income deprived household.
Terrible, eh? So, we should clear the poor out of London. Upgrade the place. Stop, say, having social housing in the most expensive property in the country…..
AKA another bunch on the taxpayer teat.
But if we did that, how could a Pakistani Muslim ever be elected Mayor of London, or be re-elected Mayor of a London borough despite being previously found guilty of electoral fraud?
The second is Bangladeshi….
Bit pendantic Tim, the key word there is “muslim”. The old saying about rosettes and donkeys applies to the ropers…….
The maker of my towel is Bangladeshi according to the label. I bet his son gets ribbed at school.
There’s a significant difference?
And to be fair Julia. The mayor of London’s father was a bus driver.
Not many people know that.
“And yet, the 2025 indices also reveal a more dynamic story, in which the myth of the capital as an oasis where the streets are paved with gold and the spoilt inhabitants surf a non-stop wave of wealth and privilege, is abruptly undermined.”
London became a mix of highly skilled and experienced service workers with huge mortgages, and chavs in council estates. It is absolutely fucking weird when you think about it. The former are realising they can sell up, move to Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset and work remote. Which means London is gradually becoming like Escape from New York.
One of my political “turns” as a young man was people talking about unemployment in London (I think during the Major years) going there and seeing job ads in every shop window. Not “Rocket Scientist Wanted” but the sort of job that kids can do. This wasn’t like Jarrow.
If you’re unemployed in London, you might as well go off to some former mining town. If you can’t walk out your house and get a job in 30 days, you are never going to get a job there. Go be unemployed somewhere cheap.
It irks me paying for these people at all, but we’d save £10bn/year in housing benefit by putting them in Bolsover or Merthyr.
Or back in Islamabad
1000 upticks
If only it was Islamabad. Most come from Peshawar
I don’t care where they go once they’ve reached Away.
‘Epping sex offender given £500 after threatening to challenge deportation | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian‘
Looks like the 500 quid bribe was actually value for money!!!
I’m about to go out on a site visit to Langdon Park. Find it on the map. Look upwards at the buildings, no so bad. Look horizontally at the people, it’s fucking Lahore.
Stop, say, having social housing in the most expensive property in the country…..
Leave them there. On no account send them to Wells, or Shaftesbury.
Good. Fuck them.