Yes, sandardisation of atropathy or a bit of healthy competition, how to promote desirability?

Yes, standardisation of atropathy or a bit of healthy competition, how to promote desirability?

Do we want to raise and improve standards?

Do we still want homes which are fit for heroes?

Do Housing Associations actually work?

Well, why were they set up and do they serve their original purpose?

One's personal experience is that they charge higher levels of rent than local councils. One should separate actual Housing Associations which actually built their housing stock from those bodies which simply succeeded council housing departments and those bodies which merely act as factoring management agents, such as now, the much maligned TMO's of Kensington and Chelsea fame.

There is a big huge variety of these bodies is there not?

The question is, do tenants have much choice as to who their responsible social housing landlord is going to be? Does it really matter? Yes there are no doubt structural and constitutional differences between them, but, ultimately, one contends, it has much to do with the type of attitudes displayed by the people who earn a living by running them and the people who employ them. Yes, they do set the rent and within the remit of existing legislation, determine the types of tenancy afforded to tenants.

For those of us who might need to imagine what it is like to have to resort to social housing, do they really have a choice as to what is on offer?

How about making certain "estates" actually desirable? What if we inculcate the idea amongst social tenants that certain housing providers are actually, really good at their job? What if certain estates are really desirable? You know, market forces?

Yes, to make social housing a socially desirable aspiration and reward those providers with the means of continuing their success?

We are a radical party. No, we do not give hand outs, we give hand ups. That is our mark.

Burke : What is a society, what is a community, what is a family'?

Yes, things have moved on sine the eighteenth century. However, Burke did have marvellous flurries of linguistic flourishes.

How many of us now regard ourselves as belonging to a community? Do we believe in them?

We can stay where we are, despite the fact that the locales are less than desirable. Do we stay or decamp? To stay and be a fighter. To stay and be an advocate of change on the ground. To stay and lead by example and do so, without being overt. To stay and influence and change form the ground up. To stay and build up that base. That takes commitment. Oh yes, it is easier to leave.

The aspiration that all can own their own home is, may one say, ludicrous. Social investment can't be directed entirely by home ownership.

It is values. It is personal responsibility. It is a recognition that we have mutual obligations. How to spread that word. To be that cleric, on a parish mission, in the East End.

We can't beat the market. The Housing market can't be beaten. Supply and demand..

Conservative values are not to be dictated by market forces alone.

...flipping heck....

I don't envy you in the slightest. Will we continue to enjoy the same influence in Europe once we leave the EU?

That's a daft question. Our right to attempt any influence will be rather diminished. The EU will point out that we left of our own accord. Independence indeed.

Sorry, you are quite right. It isn't King Faud. It makes me look quite silly now. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.

This is what what happens when one doesn't do one's homework.

Now I'm going to copy and paste a hundred times, King Saman Bin Abdulaziz.

Whoops a Daisy.

Thank you for your thoughtful insight.

If memory serves, there is a company in Denmark, which tries to recruit Aspergic and Autistic employees in the field of computer programming. Of course, not everyone on that spectrum have the relevant aptitude nor expertise, but it is a company which would appear to recognise that the condition is not a barrier to meaningful and may one suggest, profitable employment.

We can typecast, but that is one of the definitions of discrimination in itself. We need to look at individuals in terms of what they can contribute, what they might be capable of and not on our apprehension of the steps we might need to take, in order for them to be able to treated on an equal basis.

Thank you for your contribution.

You have a hard job Sir. I can only but salute your endeavour. Independence is giving people the chance to earn a living on an equal playing field.

Independence is not just getting a handout, it is, overcoming outdated attitudes. That is a conservative principle.

Giving people a leg up not a hand out. That is independence.

Are we that spineless? Stand up to them. As for Quatar, closing down Al Jazeera? Oughh. Who do they think they are?