Contemporary Issues

[Lexmarker]

Just found this website, looks really good. I am at Uni and would like to know what social issue's in the UK, really get your back up. This would help me choose a contemporary social issue for my coursework! Thanks All

[fletcher.5]

Lex, nice one, better to use this site as a resource than the shallow tabloids.
OK my contribution is:Why do certain Politicians think that the majority of us are brain dead, when in fact the sentiments are reversed. Discuss? Good luck for the future (done it)

[jake-the-peg]

I suggest you take a good look at the News threads, (although you probably won't find much outside of what's between the pages of the Daily Mail).

Normal themes are
* Immigration (help we're drowning)
* Muslims -why they should all be sent home and bombed when they get there
* Why are the PC brigade selling the country down the river?
* The EU, are they deliberately scum or just incompetant? and why are we still in it?
* Why do I pay 99.9% of everything I earn as tax when the NHS just spend it all on piles of bricks and call it art.

I've probably missed a few but you get the picture

[Theland]

Really get my back up?
Political correctness has to be high up on the list, as this country bends over backwards to accommodate a growing fifth column in our midst, islam.
Last nights Dispatches about the jihadist mosques in the UK says it all, we ignore this threat at our peril.
Uncontrolled immigration has been a disaster for us, and even mentioning it runs the risk of racist or xenophbic labels. Common sense debate has gone into hibernation.
The perpetual slide into permissiveness and moral decline translates into more and more liberal policies from the government, 24 hour drinking being an example, and has only a negative effect on our society. In my humble opinion that is.

[jake-the-peg]

Told you

[Theland]

See what I mean?

[paulos66]

Theland, sorry but as much as you'd like to even you can't blame islam for 24 hour drinking

[Theland]

paulos -"Drat!"

[paulos66]

nice try though!

[Theland]

How about overdue library books?

[naomi24]

What about investigating people who won't work, live permanently on benefits, and contribute absolutely nothing to society?

[Theland]

I'm hoping to join them if I get my pension early!

[paulos66]

Naomi, is that the tory party?

[Theland]

What future is there for a young person in a job earning average wages, who can never afford to buy a house, and due to the absence of local authority housing, or long term vacant pocession to rent, has to rent privately on short term six month contracts at the mercy of greedy landlords?
Who will that young person blame for the disparity between themselves and their parents generation?
No, working to simply put a roof over their head is wrong, and the flood of immigration has exacerbated the problem.

[paulos66]

Nowt to do with Thatcher selling off all the council housing then?

[Theland]

paulos - yes, you are right, and governments since have done nothing to reverse that, but given a finite housing stock, how can our own kids compete unless they share homes, two or more families to a property, like just after WW2?

[paulos66]

Theland personally I'd start by taxing the hell out of second homes

[Theland]

paulos - I like you.

[naomi24]

Paulos, no it's not the Tory party, nor is it any other party. It's the lazy devils who don't give a hoot about politics, but think the world owes them a living - and get it at the expense of everyone who works and contributes to the system.

You're right. Mrs T did sell off council houses, and it was wrong. However, we've had a Labour government for years now, and what have they done to reverse it? This government, and it's supporters, can't continue to blame a previous government forever. They've had more than enough time to sort it out - and they haven't.

[Theland]

Naomi is right - No government since Mrs T has addressed the problem. Blair sat back for ten years and watched the problem grow. MacMillan managed to build 350,000 houses a year in the post war era, why not now?

[naomi24]

You can't blame the housing shortage on people owning second homes. The proportion who do own second homes is minute compared to the population of the country. If all those second homes were repossessed and given to those who need housing, it would make very little impact on the problem.