On Feb 12, 2008 6:41 PM, Pete Theisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008 05:35, Dave Crozier wrote: > > > The "yobs" as they are called are predominantly white, living on council > > estates with young parents > > Hi Dave! > > Considering all this while pursuing my various errands. Council Estates - is > that a Briticism for "welfare"?
Not really. It's social housing - affordable places for lower/middle class workers to live. Not necessarily poor areas (but often are). Houses are owned by local town/county councils and rented to tenants (who may or may not claim welfare). Unfortunately a certain Mrs Thatcher decided to sell them off to tenants at a huge discount and successive governments made it worse by transferring them to housing associations. These days you have to be a 15 year old mother of 2 or an asylum seeker to get a council house. I grew up in a council house BTW. My family was never on welfare and indeed would have been horrified at the thought. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
