The most ill-advised picture opportunity of this or any other week was of Afghan refugee Jawad Saiedi, grinning in jubilation while pointing at the £1.2m house that Ealing council has just given to his family at a rental cost to the taxpayer of £12,458 a month. It has not engendered an enormous degree of sympathy for Jawad, his mum Toorpakai and her six other children (whom we’re also paying for, natch).

 

They fled here a few years ago, having rubbed the Taliban up the wrong way. One or two local residents quoted in the newspapers reckon the Taliban may have had a point, all things considered.

 

Under some council loophole, the house is being let out at more than three times the cost of similar houses in the area, much to the delight of the landlord Ajit Panisar. Both recipients of our largesse – Panisar and Saiedi – think that Ealing council is bonkers, which one would not dispute for a moment. Ealing has since sacked the three staff who arranged the Saiedis’ new home, although on what grounds I cannot be sure. Perhaps even more interesting details will emerge soon.

While hopping up and down with glee, Saiedi told the press that being given the house was like “winning the lottery” – but that’s not quite accurate.

 

If he had a job and were white, British and had lived in the borough all his life, contributing hundreds of thousands of pounds to the exchequer in taxes, then the chances of him being given that particular house – or indeed any other property, even a studio flat – by Ealing council would be like winning the lottery. As, however, he is none of those things, it is simply par for the course. The odds were very much in his favour.

 

Earlier this year, the local Ealing newspaper reported the case of 60-year-old Peter Wright and his wife who have been evicted from their home in the borough and will not be rehoused because their need is not considered sufficiently pressing. The home in which Wright has lived for 50 years is being redeveloped and there’s no room for him any more, so Ealing council have told him to get lost and make his own arrangements.

 

Wright pointed out that he has worked all his life and paid the rates without interruption. I expect he was one of the many who read about the Saiedis’ good fortune with great equanimity, but I can’t be sure because I haven’t been able to discover where he lives now. A private paper produced by Ealing council earlier this year reckoned that 80% of those who applied to the council for housing are immediately “placed in Band D [the lowest category] without any prospect of being rehoused”.

 

It is this disparity, I reckon, which most galls the public, rather than the astronomical sums involved. Sure, Toorpakai and her family cost the taxpayer an estimated £170,000 every year, which sort of pokes its wet nose somewhere beyond the edge of my compassion, but it’s not the real point. Nor, of course, is it the Saiedis’ fault, though they might be advised to confine their celebrations to their new living room, or perhaps the 120-ft back garden.

 

It is that every public institution – the councils, the courts, central government – seems to have a list of priorities upon which, for the best of reasons, the most deserving people come last.

 

The victim of crime, the Gurkha, the man who puts up barbed wire to prevent burglars and is told to remove it by the council in case the thieves injure themselves, the taxpayer, people who work for a living, those who have invested their lives in an area and are then told by the council to get lost. It is that the story of the Saiedis is commonplace that most annoys.

 

Source: Sunday Times

 

Some people don't know when they are well off, and shouldn't advertise it. Surely the council and the Government are seriously to blame here.

This story and disparity which has since been picked up by the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph online etc on their websites shows exactly why the poison that is Political Correctness in our liberal minded local authorities and public institutions funded by taxpayers expense, is a far bigger enemy to the state than Al Qaeda ever will be because injustices like this subsequently create and almost justify racism in society to right these wrongs.

This story and disparity which has since been picked up by the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph online etc on their websites shows exactly why the poison that is Political Correctness in our liberal minded local authorities and public institutions funded by taxpayers expense, is a far bigger enemy to the state than Al Qaeda ever will be because injustices like this subsequently create and almost justify racism in society to right these wrongs.

I absolutely agree! I seriously cannot understand the mentality of those who make these ridiculous decisions.

The victim of crime, the Gurkha, the man who puts up barbed wire to prevent burglars and is told to remove it by the council in case the thieves injure themselves, the taxpayer, people who work for a living, those who have invested their lives in an area and are then told by the council to get lost. It is that the story of the Saiedis is commonplace that most annoys.

There was a similar story last week covered on my local news. Some people who rent allotments in the Midlands were so fed up of their sheds being broken into and equipment stolen, that they put up barbed wire around the fences to keep out intruders. They too, have been ordered to remove it because of health and safety. Presumably, the safety of the intruders who were committing a crime :rolleyes: When challenged, a councillor said that there were far better ways of dealing with the problem, and suggested more security patrols of the allotments as a solution, but those who rent the allotments and 99% of the viewers who responded to the news item remain unconvinced that this would actually happen, and who can blame them.

I absolutely agree! I seriously cannot understand the mentality of those who make these ridiculous decisions.

 

There was a similar story last week covered on my local news. Some people who rent allotments in the Midlands were so fed up of their sheds being broken into and equipment stolen, that they put up barbed wire around the fences to keep out intruders. They too, have been ordered to remove it because of health and safety. Presumably, the safety of the intruders who were committing a crime :rolleyes: When challenged, a councillor said that there were far better ways of dealing with the problem, and suggested more security patrols of the allotments as a solution, but those who rent the allotments and 99% of the viewers who responded to the news item remain unconvinced that this would actually happen, and who can blame them.

 

Another case I read about mentioned a guy, trying to break in ( I think in Manchester) and he broke his foot as he fell through the victim's asbestos roof - the garage roof. The thief claimed for injuries AND asbestos poisoning (GAAAAH) and won .

We are getting too PC , overall. Like the French or not, they stopped the muslim girl wearing garb at school - that is what uniformity and equality is for... The USA get a bit too far in ... certain aspects... Nevertheless , Brits look like weaklings compared with the other two, as we , Brits, tolerate too much.

I lived in many countries, including Germany and, trust me, there people do pay respect to law. And the law respects the citizen more than the infractor.

The Sunday Times are being very tight-lipped about the Executive of Ealing Council though... I suppose one would be forgiven for thinking that it was a Labour or Lib Dem control borough, but a little research actually uncovers that Ealing is, in actual fact, CONSERVATIVE controlled.... :lol: :lol: :lol: Although it does have three Labour MPs...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Ealing

 

So much for David Cameron's pledges then, and so much for the Tories claim that they run their councils better.... :rolleyes: Seems as though the Tories are just as likely to be slaves to the drum of PC as well...

 

I've long held the opinion that pretty much the only chance of you getting a Council House in this country is if you're a single parent with about umpteen brats from different fathers, a refugee or a dole scrounger.... Thing is though, the majority of Refugees actually end up in B & B or Hostel accommodation, instances such as this are pretty rare occurrences....

.... ealing?...thats where they made comedy films innit?...:lol: oh dear, how utterly WRONG is that?

 

 

.... ealing?...thats where they made comedy films innit?...:lol: oh dear, how utterly WRONG is that?

 

:lol: :lol:

 

Well, it IS a bloody big joke innit.....? I suppose therein lies the link....

 

Like the French or not, they stopped the muslim girl wearing garb at school - that is what uniformity and equality is for..

 

I fully support the French in their intentions, they come down just as hard on Jewish kids wearing skullcaps and Catholic kids wearing visible crucifixes.... We SHOULD be doing exactly the same thing with our own State schools here in UK.... In fact, I have an objection to Religious schools, full stop.... I mean, we dont have Labour Party schools or Conservative Party schools do we....? I think Religious schooling creates division and sectarianism... Look at Northern Ireland where not so long ago you had Protestants chucking ROCKS FFS at catholic girls on their way to school, and pupils from an Orthodox Jewish school in East London threw stones at the house of a Muslim Granny subjecting her to absolute terror.... Un-fukkin'-believable..... <_<