tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post2835846915501623913..comments2023-11-29T13:13:23.022+00:00Comments on newgate news: 'Make room! Make room!'Macheathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-54453339287401738422011-10-23T15:49:13.377+01:002011-10-23T15:49:13.377+01:00Mine too!
Amazing - the Left have gone so far do...Mine too! <br /><br />Amazing - the Left have gone so far down the road to hypocrisy that they've come out the other side and just don't care any more.Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-21921065984071745822011-10-23T12:43:37.184+01:002011-10-23T12:43:37.184+01:00Julia - You've just made my day :-)Julia - You've just made my day :-)Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-54892471454977335562011-10-23T07:00:11.923+01:002011-10-23T07:00:11.923+01:00Oh, what a shock, well, blow me down, who'd ha...<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052351/The-man-says-pensioners-leave-nest-homes--1-5m-bedroom-des-res-parents-live-alone.html" rel="nofollow">Oh, what a shock, well, blow me down, who'd have believed it, etc, etc..</a>JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-793987920600425242011-10-22T14:13:21.270+01:002011-10-22T14:13:21.270+01:00Thank Macheath. And all that from my bed! I haven&...Thank Macheath. And all that from my bed! I haven't got up yet, I've been blogging in bed all morning. I've just posted my vision of the future and it's gone 2 so I'm going to have to get up and do some proper stuff now.<br /><br />The link appears to be corrct but I had serious trouble getting the page to load myself. Maybe they can't handle more than one visitor.<br /><br />My only experience of seaside towns goes back to holidays with the parents but I can imagine how residents have to put up with a lot of misguided incomers.<br /><br />It's like that chap who took his kids to a fishing village and then complained about the smell of fishBuckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-46443676715211008322011-10-22T14:04:17.082+01:002011-10-22T14:04:17.082+01:00Thanks, Bucko, for research above and beyond the c...Thanks, Bucko, for research above and beyond the call of duty for those commenting on blog posts.<br /><br />The scheme's website is certainly persuasive; the whole thing is dressed up like a travel brochure extolling the beauties of Britain's coastline in glowing terms that would baffle anyone actually living there.<br /><br />The places offered in Perranporth remind me of the years I spent in Cornwall; there was a kind of predictability about the behaviour of incomers retiring there 'from England'.<br /><br />After the first windy, rainy winter, they would grumble a bit. The wet spring would depress them more, then they would perk up in the summer sunshine. Then the autumn rain would set in and, after a second winter of unremitting drizzle, they would usually pack up and go back where they came from.<br /><br />This, of course, was heartily welcomed by the natives, who deeply resent the drain elderly incomers place on local resources like housing and places in care homes.<br /><br />PS I couldn't get your link to work so I googled it; if anyone else wants a look, this might do the trick:<br />http://www.housingmoves.org/seaside-country-homes.htmMacheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-45392016760295015542011-10-22T12:47:24.969+01:002011-10-22T12:47:24.969+01:00"When Labour was in government, it tried to p..."When Labour was in government, it tried to persuade older people in council and housing association homes in London and other cities to exchange them for smaller social housing in seaside towns."<br /><br />There is the <a href="http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/housing/housingoptions/ctwmove/" rel="nofollow">Seaside and country homes scheme</a> which appears to be voluntary and assists older people in moving to smaller council properties away from cities.Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-40148918638092701192011-10-22T12:32:36.712+01:002011-10-22T12:32:36.712+01:00no. It was just a breif note in the article and I ...no. It was just a breif note in the article and I never thought to look into it.Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-59520944004375115522011-10-22T10:42:47.612+01:002011-10-22T10:42:47.612+01:00Julia, although there are no accounts available as...Julia, although there are no accounts available as yet, I doubt you'd find any takers for that bet, at least among us cynical bloggers (though you could try at the Guardian...) <br /><br />Bucko, it looks like a case of 'out of sight, out of mind', at least as far as the London council are concerned. <br /><br />It also conveniently shifts the burden of elderly care to another borough; is there any record of how the seaside town councils are reacting?Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-45121952617382767322011-10-21T12:02:44.422+01:002011-10-21T12:02:44.422+01:00The DM article points to a London council that enc...The DM article points to a London council that encourages old folk in council property to downsize and move to smaller properties in a seaside town.<br />I know it's the councils property, but it's a leap to assume all old folk want to live by the sea.<br />They dont matter anymore so we'll throw them into a stereotype and insist they like itBuckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-69137674250460187692011-10-21T05:34:06.724+01:002011-10-21T05:34:06.724+01:00""The Intergenerational Foundation is a ...<i>""The Intergenerational Foundation is a new charity dedicated to promoting fairness between generations ..."</i><br /><br />Since I'm pretty sure that load of old flannel would come well, well below abandoned animals, abused children, African famine victims and lifeboatmen in public donation stakes, I'm betting it's a fakecharity.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.com