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    Rent increase: ‘How will we afford children?’

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    1. DrBeatlesDogWho on

      “Bloody Catholic, having bloody kids, that they can’t afford to bloody feed”

      Guess the movie.

    2. 3106Throwaway181576 on

      Have you considered that Boomers deserve perpetual 7% asset price rises

    4. Mr_Mojo-_- on

      You won’t be able to afford it, they’d much rather have you in a perpetual state of debt through high cost of living/low wages… So you can be a good little struggling worker for the rest of your life… And don’t think you get a break being a pensioner either, by the time your old and wrinkly, the retirement age will be around the age of 80 at this rate…
      Our system is broken and we helped it along by being complacent, when we should have been standing together contesting the BS policies that only benefit a few, the kicker being…. WE pay for it all…. Even when banks collapse, energy firms need bailing out etc. WE pay for THEIR mistakes (plus their bonuses btw..) and at every turn, we take it gladly like a £2 slag… I say let them fail, they fucked up, not us… There will be another bank etc to take its place.

    5. ProjectInfinite47 on

      And the boomerati still wonder why so many workers are being imported – Greed and NIMBYism has turned the next generation into nothing but cashpoints.

      **Vote Tory, Get Rekt** ™

    7. Veritanium on

      You don’t!

      But don’t worry, we’ll import some third worlders to substitute for the children you don’t have.

    8. masterblaster0 on

      >She said it took eight months for a dripping tap to be fixed, impacting her water bills, and the walls were mouldy and damp with mineral deposits.

      If they asked anyone about it they would have been told it was most likely in need of a new tap washer, could have done the job themselves in 10 minutes and avoided the 8 months wait and extra cost on the water bill.

    10. merryman1 on

      The disconnect in this country is getting so surreal. The article posted just after this is yet more concern about how families will be able to send their children to private school if they have to pay a bit of tax on the fees. Meanwhile we’re at a point where literally millions of children in this country are living in very low income households where pressures are so tight things like this, a rise in rent meaning you genuinely might struggle to avoid proper basics like food, are a common and very genuine stress people have to live with day to day month to month.

    11. External-Praline-451 on

      It would be so nice if there was a genuine carrot for people to have kids, instead of the far-right nonsense-stick, of taking away rights, like in the US.

      I would’ve had kids if it was at all affordable, I very much wanted them. The fact I am “child-free” wasn’t because I am over-educated or had reproductive rights. It was because rent in my hometown of London was crippling, and insecure tenancies meant lots of moving and upheaval.

    12. SmackedWithARuler on

      You don’t need children, you need to pay the pensions of the home-owning elderly so they don’t have to sell up and move to a more modest property. Bloody entitled woke youth, all woke and lefty and that. Lefty.

      Lefty.

      Woke.

      *Dozes off, dreams some lovely comforting dreams about waving flags, kissing the king’s feet and spitting on foreign people*

    13. Important_Knee_5420 on

      Okay honestly I thought shit was crap here in northern Ireland 

      Honestly that’s unreal prices  I rent a three bed for £650

    14. AleHouseRock on

      Children? They don’t care. They will simply allow 10,000 Africans to move here and do the work.

    15. PolarPeely26 on

      I considered moving out of London today (once again) for more space for the family. Spare bedrooms for kids, etc.

      Had a look at Bicester thinking I could buy a bigger house and maybe do a longer commute to work….

      Well, that was all looking just about manageable until I checked the train prices …. £73 return … a day!!

      It’s just impossible.

    16. CCFC1998 on

      All part of the tory master plan.

      Step 1) Make the plebs rack up unaffordable levels of debt for everyday expenses

      Step 2) Indentured servitude

    17. Professional_Elk_489 on

      “Luisa, a civil servant renting in Tameside, lived with her two adult children in a three-bedroom house for £695 per month in 2022.”

      That does seem like a bargain to me. I’m used to rents that start with a £2xxx

    18. Inevitable_Snow_5812 on

      It’s crazy how many British family lines are going to come to an end and without a shot fired.

      All because all governments over a period of about 40 years wouldn’t represent Britons, and wouldn’t walk a mile in their shoes.

      I mean, think about that, thousands of generations lived and died and had children along the way, and then we got to Margaret Thatcher and have never recovered. And rent is due at the end of the month.

    19. grrrranm on

      It’s ok you don’t need children because U.K.’s importing the entire world to live here!

    20. RedPill86 on

      All these parties promising to build new homes but I bet most of those will be built shoddily and sold to foreign landlords

    22. Present_Nerve7871 on

      The government doesn’t need your children when it has an endless supply of foreign born children.

    23. gattomeow on

      Don’t worry, the Boomers will still demand you stump up for them *before* considering you consider your own children.

    24. Pure-Fig1780 on

      I honestly couldn’t care less if they can’t afford children. Guaranteed they will vote green or for some other lefty party and then wonder why there rent is increasing. Supply and demand folks