People who buy their council house

Nice one Siobhan Ok have just been over to ireland and have really enjoyed myself .The gas is running out.

Ok ! £85,000 In the bank plus extra's All legal All paid fer All mine.... Well maybe not I suppose I and so many other chavs Will have to bail you lot out again Who borrow well over your limit and can not pay it back.But dont worry the not in debt "chav" will bail you out...Bet that hurt how much do you owe.....OUCH..

Lottie, please don't tar everyone with the same brush. I like to think of myself as working class, the key word here being class, something that the "Chavs" don't have and neither by the sound of it do you. Also they probably don't go to work either. I grew up on a council estate and the majority of my neighbours were decent honest people unlike most of my neighbours now who think they are something special because they "own" their houses at least until they get reposessed when the interest rates go up and they lose their jobs as Britain goes into recession.

Lets lay a few myths to rest.Unless your house is in the £400,000 bracket it aint going to be much different from the council "chav's" humble abode in the £110,000 bracket.Lets get technical okay lets not I'm a builder by the way Yes it is true a council house spec will be much higher than a private build the builder wants to cut costs and make a proffitt,councils want properties to last.I have just finishes work on an ex council house upgrade brought by two very hard working young "chavs" who know at this moment own there dream home Oh! and they settled the bill very quickly.the house before work started was 27' x 18' it has a huge gabled loft space and is built in solid clay brick with cavity wall and solid brick interior walls.
How many must hav's not chavs have purchased or are in the process of buying there first home made mostly of plasterboard and cheap building materials up to there neck in debt and all to say look at what I dont own.Get a life you are not better than anyone else it is parent's who let themselves and the children down not what plot of land a house was built on.Its a fact council properties will always be the vauxhall vectras of the building trade but i'm afraid the truth is they are also up in the SRI trim.

Nick, that maybe (although 20% were prefabricated) but they were also built for working class people, this housing model provided the first experience of private garden space (usually front and rear) and the first private and indoor toilets and bathrooms.

You only have to look at the majority of working class people now who live in council houses, I admit the idea was good (after the war,depression increasing population etc) but the majority of working classes nowadays are chavs.

Lottie, generally council houses were better built then private as they were designed to last with lower maintenance and not for a quick profit.

As the saying goes you can take the man out of the gutter, but you can't take the gutter out of the man. At the end of the day council houses are council bought or not.

Tryth, see the last comment. That's what a conservative government did for council housing.

I hate the policy of "right to buy", its why young people can't afford houses today. thanks a lot Thatcher!

How spot on.My workplace had one or fifty people with a mortgage, I rent mine, quite happy to at the moment but I am in the position to purchase outright.So Mr mortgage remember this, you are the one with the massive loan that will take twenty/ twenty five years to pay off usually. And you are still renting in a sense...From the bank

I can remember the old Scotswood Rd slums in Newcastle, concrete walls and staircases and one toilet in the middle of the street for 12 families, when these tenaments were demolished and replaced with council houses the residents must have felt like millionairs, a relation of mine who was lucky enough to get one could,nt believe she had her own toilet and all she had to do was turn on a tap and the water was hot.However, as some residents moved out,and others moved in that had not had the experience of the old Scotswood Rd took the view that it was their right to do as they pleased, hence,the decline of the estate,which only goes to prove its not the houses but the attitude of the people who live in them..

Bring in a conservative government, they will tighten up the people who give council house tennants a bad name, and reduce it too!