John Humphrys grandly suggested to IDS yesterday that ‘There are facts and beliefs and you can believe whatever you like.’
So let’s look at how the BBC presents some ‘facts’.
The BBC has been trumpeting the left leaning Resolution Foundation’s claim that:
Rent ‘unaffordable’ for low-income families in third of UK
The BBC have tagged that onto their news bulletins or reports about welfare all day without qualification.
But this is what the Resolution Foundation’s report actually said:
‘In a third of all local authorities, a low income couple with one child on £22k would have to spend more than a third of their income to rent the least expensive two bedroom property in the local area.’
So that 1/3rd of the UK that is unaffordable is only unaffordable if there is an artificial limit set on the rent payment…33% of income…and that income is set by the Resolution Foundation at £22,000…..and doesn’t include any possible additional top up housing benefit payments….as complained about by IDS on the Today show
Of course the welfare cap is £26,000….and for a little more money you get drastically different figures.
In the following line in the Resolution Foundation’s report the ‘unaffordable’ figure is now only 10%…..
‘In 10 per cent of local authorities, the same family would have to spend more than half of their income on rent.’
We are told that under the new welfare cap of £26,000 people will be priced out of London and the South East….well even a casual google of rentals there indicates that may not be so…..for £1000 per month there are plenty of three bed homes……and that still leaves £1000 to play with per month.
When I put the same requirements (3 bedroom, rent, £1000/month) into the BBC’s own ‘rental calculator’ it tells me that I cannot live anywhere near London….clearly that is not true as I have shown above.
The BBC is scare mongering and fanning the flames of anger, fear and protest…based on a lie.
There will be no ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the poorest people in London.
I know what I believe and it’s not the BBC.
It’s true that native Londoners are being “ethnically cleansed” out of the capital, largely out of fear of those who have kindly come here to enrich our cultural experiences.
But rents and house prices are going up too in London and other areas, thanks to the growing population being confronted by the relatively inelastic supply of housing.
I look forward to economics guru Stephanie Flanders explaining this problem, along with
Two Eds’her cunning plan to alleviate it by building over the Tory shires.we got this on look east, according to bbbc normal people cant afford to live in our region. I do wonder how the penniless victims of oppression manage to make homes here though. oh bless em, now they are safe they are free to have eight kids and …..well everyone knows the rest.if my bath was nearly full I would turn the taps off. close the borders.
there might not be ethnic cleansing in london like you say, but there is something going on here where in my city we have had up to a 1000 immigrants and failed asylum seekers from london turn up in the last few months and being dumped into the inner city overcrowded areas which the locals are not to happy about,you probably have guessed where i live by now and but i am just a bit suspicious about what is going on here.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/londons-homeless-set-dumped-birmingham-1946457..@ stuart any chance you live in birmingham ?
If the BBC are so worried about rising rents they could do something about it by pulling their afternoon property porn program ‘homes under the hammer’ which actively encourages people with money to invest to by houses in run down areas (which might otherwise be bought by first time buyers) and fleece the taxpayer by letting them to people on benefits
Never questioning the morality of the by-to-let industry.Its effects on house prices on the neighbours to such properties or on the neighbourhoods targeted.
Nor does the BBC ever question why there is such a demand for housing
Indeed and I would love to know how these shows seem to get away with giving financial advice with out a second thought. A lot of amateurs believe the BTL (Buy To Let) game is easy and a lot of life savings have been lost.
Quite a few of the people featured on these shows make a mistake (pay to much for the house usually) and are in obvious financial trouble but then the shows producers allow them to tell obvious lies to save face. On one I saw a few months back while ill the BTL “investors” told the interviewer how they had had their wreck of a property rewired , re plastered , re decorated and a new boiler fitted for just under £2000 !! So were on track for a good profit. Obvious lies and they were no doubt up to their neck in debt with little chance of repaying it in years but the show went along with it.
Am I the only one who actually used to believe those refurb prices quoted in the prog?
To be fair to the Beeb “Grand Designs” is as bad. In that program you get an entire team of British builders living on site in caravans outside your home for 6 months (working in the snow even) for approx £5000 ! I must be looking in the wrong places when I get builders to quote for work.
Oh no time for either programme the one is pure Arthur Daily greed merchants with who I have about as much love as bailiffs and the other full of eco whack jobs who care about the planet so much they build huge environmentally damaging houses to keep little Tristram and Jocasta in the luxury to which their upper middle class parents aspire oh and they nearly always lie about how much cash they have to back their folly!
Yes, they spend thousands ensuring their eco-homes can withstand the cold/hot winter/summers we are ‘going’ to get due to AGW. Then they build rooms that are huge, must cost enormous amounts to heat and, as SWMBO always asks ‘how on earth are they going to keep those rafters spider free?’
The whole programme is a complete nonsense.
Mind you it’s not as bad as ‘Storage Wars’ which wins the Fantasy Programme of the Decade Award.
While we’re at it, does anyone have doubts about those relocation programmes?
The homes viewed never show any sign that the occupier is in the process of moving and no “for sale” sign is ever visible outside. Is it removed?
Just a thought.
Worst thing about those re-location shows is how the presenters are always pushing the ‘subjects’ to spend over their budget (however astronomical) .No property bubble in the bubble I guess.
But there is a serious problem.
The presenters of these property programs are all property speculators. And the presenters of antique programs (sell your memories for 2 weeks in Benidorm) are all antique dealers. Both groups have a vested interest in inflating prices in their respective industries
Should the BBC give them a platform for this cheap-jacking ? Are they in fact accessories to what ,at the very least, is sharp practice
Perhaps ‘A Lawyer’ could give us the benefit of his legal expertise
And aren`t there a few BBC buildings in need of that ethnic Romanian batik look, now they`ve scooted “up norf” to Salford.
I myself confidently predict that 10,000 people from Romania could fit into Wood Lane, and a few more at the BH studio near the Strand.
Let` s see who can predict the right number correctly….money to Help for Heroes…and the BBC could film it for us!
Let Lenny Henry host it…poor lad has now given up that “comedian” tag he was weighed down with for far too long.
He`s an “ACTOR” now you know!
Mark Steel, Mark Thomas and Marcus could do worse…Weymouth Pavilion needs three planks for Robinson Cruiser this Winterval!
I posted this on the Birmingham Mails comments page:
Yet again we see the effects of mass immigration, and yet instead of saying the truth we hear that we need to build more homes. More homes, more hospitals, schools, etc etc. How about we need a decrease in the population of this already overcrowded island?? How about limits on the number of children a family can have, or will we be in this position until we’ve built on ever square inch of land possible?
We have a finite world population growth cannot keep growing, it is irresponsible and selfish of those who have large families they could not possibly afford with out the rest of society subsidising them.
This article might interest you in that case
A ridiculous policy! What happens if you already have 3 kids and are made redundant?
It doesn’t address the ‘man’ who buys a corner shop which turns over £100 a day and then claims the maximum tax credits because he’s ‘working’ and can have 10 kids plus, which is exactly what is happening.
There’s nothing in the policy to address career unmarried mothers who have a kid just to get the higher benefits?
“Unemployed parents who then choose to have more than two children ‘will know that welfare is not going to fund that choice’.”
And aren’t ‘extra’ children not getting benefits soon?
And more reforms in the pipeline.
Racist!
You should know by now that immigrants bring their homes, doctors and midwives with them.
And restaurants don’t forget them
And imams.
“Where on earth could we get a good curry without all the immigrants?”
This was one of the ridiculous pro-immigration rants I heard a while back…
Erm….well, you could try making them yourself?…if a bunch of 3rd world, 6th century, devil worshipping retards can make them, they can’t be that tough…can they?
(As my hideously white girlfriend manages to do better than any balti house once a fortnight or so)
but don’t you know that curry is the nations favourite dish-copyrite bbbc- where the hell would we be without curry and kebabs eh? ifeel so culturally enriched I cant eat my fish and chips,rammadan ennit!