Nick, you really talk s***. Of course it's market forces at work. Somebody will end up paying that figure - and they won't be an unfortunate case due to the extreme price! Taking the piss is just your opinion. How about cars, speakers, TVs - they are overpriced too, so what, people pay it! Unfortunately for you we don't live in a communist country where prices are fixed by the State.

I've given up waiting for your explanation of why you think landlords are unscrupulous with social housing. In the meantime, keep posting left wing links and photos from your Facebook chums. But try to be able to back up your commie propaganda when challenged.

Incredible to think that people like JohnyBoy, Nick and Kermit would be happy to see the Falklands with an Argentine population today...

1. I do not think all landlords are unscrupulous with social housing. I have said there are some. If you recall an earlier post, I said that my beef is with the fact that affordable social housing was sold off and one third of it is owned by landlords who charge higher rents for the properties than the social housing rent was. To my mind this is unscrupulous. Don't you find it strange , obscene even, that the son of the minister in charge of housing at the time of Thatcher's tenure has a portfolio of 42 ex council houses.
2. You call it propaganda, others see it as facts.

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'Shelter says that following cuts to housing benefit and changes to the homelessness safety net, it is concerned that vulnerable families will be pushed into the bottom end of an unregulated private rented sector unprotected from a minority of rogue landlords looking to cash in.

Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "Throughout this campaign we have been continually shocked at the treatment tenants receive at the hands of these unscrupulous operators. What is more worrying is that this research shows just how many people are being affected by rogue landlord practice.'

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Pro USA & Israel

Monday morning.
just been listening to the radio on the way to work. Preparations for Thatcher's funeral, etc.

I am feeling the vibe this is going to be a huge anti-climax. The sheer expense of this funeral is obscene.
She was a very effective politician. Nothing more, nothing less.

I hope the proposers/authorisers of the spending of this public money are ashamed and embarrassed.

I disengage, I turn the page.

That's as it may be.

However it was Thatcher who negotiated the EU rebate which has seen 75 Billion come back into this country.

Even though the wimps in Labour ended up giving it partly back on the pretext of being 'good Europeans'.

Thatcher deserves the ten million or whatever it is.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)