v_e, //The word you were searching for, Naomi, is moral.//
I hesitated to use that word. As I said yesterday, “I suspect the reality would belie the claims of pious, - and distant - altruism. Easy to support - when you're not personally involved.” I wonder how many of the moral warriors here would be delighted to have their property forcibly devalued overnight?
Eddie, I’ve already offered my solution, but you know “most of these tenants work in the immediate area for the basic wage” – how? Does no one who works in that area for a basic wage hop on the tube or on a bus every day to get to work? And what about those who don’t work at all?
smowball, /I know is that there are a lot of children in the survivors who will still need to go to school and so they will need to be as local as possible.//
Education doesn’t begin and end in Kensington.
Krom, //if that is where they need to be.//
But do they?
Mikey, //I think we need to be a little more charitable, and goes especially to the more wealthy amongst the Kensington rate payers.//
Why? Is the responsibility of the more wealthy Kensington rate-payers greater than the responsibility of anyone else? You say “we need to be a little more charitable”, so I’m guessing you’d be delighted to have the value of your property slashed overnight. Go on – tell the truth. You’d be first in line to offer!