No. Italy is the model of political stability.

Don’t forget bringing in their dependant relatives

I'm not.

It would be interesting to know just how many there are.

It's usually children, but can be parents.

Two of my tenants are the elderly parents of a Polish guy who arrived here 15 years ago and now runs a successful building business, employing quite a big group. He keeps a close eye on them. Their rent is always paid on time and cause no trouble at all. Whether they draw benefits, pensions etc and if so where they originate from, is not known to me.

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This is one of the big unsolvables though WE.

I don't doubt for a second that they are all very nice people, I honestly don't. However, though it is nice that the son and his parents are providing you with a reliable and timely source of income from your buy to let properties, it is adding to the general shortage of housing stock that everyone appears to be screaming to address, as long as it is not addressed close to where they live themselves.

Your elderly tenants may or may not be receiving benefits, we don't know. However, one benefit they will receive as they get older is from the Health Service, which simply adds to the pressure it is already under. The last couple of times that I've actually attended my GP's surgery, I've been struck by the array of languages I have to choose from when checking in, and by the number of people who are sitting in the waiting room with relatives (presumably) acting as translator because they don't actually speak English themselves. Most of these relatives have young kids with them who will, presumably, soon be adding to the pressure on school places. And this is in well to do Hove, not some inner city environment.

I don't know what the answer is. Perhaps ask those who are benefitting financially from them via rent to pay a bit more tax on this income to help towards looking after their needs?

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

Thanks to the kind of idiocy that you subscribe to.

Being able to recognise realities, and finding ways to adapt to change as a consequence, isn't idiocy.

What's idiotic is thinking that you can run anything, a country included, on inflexible, ideological beliefs.

Unless we hold all the strings worldwide, so we can make other countries dance to our tune, then pragmatism is the only realistic route forward.

!50 years ago we might have been holding many strings, but no longer.

Our world is changing fast. It impacts us as much as anyone. You might not enjoy what it brings, but you had better come to terms with it or your bitterness and resentment will taint the rest of your life. There is absolutely no reason why a changed life cannot still be an enjoyable one, so why not stop fighting battles that cannot be won, and start to enjoy what is, rather than dream of what cannot be.

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