when most folks live in flats or houses that are either row houses or semi-detached all on little postage stamp plots. House renters having to pay council tax - not the owners who rent their property out

That the sound on your neighbours telly is louder than yours when you have yours turned up full blast & you can hear all of their screaming & shouting as well as the smells of what the neighbours are having for dinner.

And you can tell who is and isn't a "migrant scrounger...bypassing a benefits ban and collecting thousands of pounds in handouts" just by looking at them of course.

what?

From your first link:

Outrage at migrants selling the Big Issue to beat benefits ban

MIGRANT scroungers are bypassing a benefits ban and collecting thousands of pounds in handouts by selling charity magazines to exploit a legal loophole.

By: Anil DawarPublished: Mon, May 23, 2011


Romanians and Bulgarians... backdoor assault on Britain’s soft-touch welfare state provoked outrage...scam...hitting hard-working ­taxpayers in the pocket...ordinary families...hard-earned cash...hitting hard-working taxpayers in the pocket...About 40 per cent of sellers in the North are believed to be Romanian gypsies... gateway to benefits dependency...

Mr Codrianu, who does not speak English, and his wife now also sell the magazine. Mr Codrianu has applied for benefits such as working tax credit.

Fay Selvan, owner of Big Issue in the North, denied it encouraged migrants to register as vendors. She said: “We help whoever asks. We don’t discriminate. Any of our vendors are entitled to be self-employed so it is not a loophole, it is the law.”

That doesnt describe most of our friends here.

beginning 2014 when the Bulgarians & Romanians have no need to be classified as 'self employed' to get benefits, they can simply continue to collect welfare as well as JSA without working & join the millions of other scroungers in the UK including the home grown ones.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ons-relax.html

This is when you know you are in the UK - a further burden to the taxpayer

Me thinks The Big Issue paper business will be losing revenue


eh!

I am not going to read all this crap when I get over there.

In a rental situation, who do you think pays council/property tax in Canada? I would say the renters as it is built into the rent. Some Cdn rents may incl cable, utilities etc. etc., but the renter is still paying for them.

That's lovely!.......how DARE you!

Oh boy!! I live in a high 'socio economic' area, not all of us here are in that bracket, so it ameliorates the elitism somewhat. The restaurant belt is 2 minutes from my house. A chap is sometimes to be found there at the mouth of a small shopping mall selling the BI. Just to either side of him are outdoor eating areas of restaurants. Some of those people are recognisable regulars. One of those outlets is expensive.

They just watch this chap.

Every time I pass him I give him $5 for himself. I don't take the BI so he gets the full 5. If it was my last 5 I would still give it to him.
Does that make me a 'hero'? well of course not!! I do it because these people are NOT malingerers 'on benefits'. They are without much support, and with little resource, sometimes battling mental illness, which goes untreated because slimy polishituns have stripped support services.

Hmmmm? I actually think n2o, that you would be wise to stay where YOU are, because it is plainly obvious that the UK does not meet your exacting standards.

Sorry, my mistake. You are resident in the UK....?

Not actually looking at them, but seeing the situation with clarity from afar..

Edit: new post: .......nah! nothing to add. (Except-back later)

of course you will, so get acclimatized now

Bloody hell, after all that I'm gobsmacked

Just over 2 years for me and i never ceased to be amazed at how little dog poo there is around here given the number of dogs there are compared with Canberra where I swear no one ever carried a Baggie for their dog's mess and finding a bin to put it in was even more of a Herculean task!

... not that you're judgmental or anything...

You must be one of those rare individuals with no bad habits, right?

Funny, it wasn't so long ago that people smoked on buses, in cinemas, in pubs and restaurants, and noone had anything to say about it. Funny that.