Monarchy, Hero Worship and the Rich (murders just live in a different world)

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A few years ago I had to take the first rented room I could get, in a

hurry when I changed jobs, and moved from Bracknell to London.

 

I had a little rescued kitten I had taken off the streets a few weeks

earlier, even managed to successfully feed her vegan using Vegecat

supplement in her food, but I was forced to rehome her to one of my

colleagues in Bracknell, because my new landlady wouldn't let me keep

her.

 

I think it's terrible the way that woman had the right to tell me I

couldn't keep a rescued pet just cos I gave her almost half my meagre

wages in exchange for a poky room in Peckham. I wasn't getting any

housing benefit to help me. She wasn't rich but she was an

exploitative and mean person, it wasn't even her own house, it was

housing association and she was just basically paying quite a low

rent for the whole house and using me as her lodger to pay most of it

for her! I found later that she was doing it behind the housing

association's back too.

I wouldn't have cared too much about all that as it wasn't hurting

the housing association, in fact it was good that she was sharing the

house, and my money for the room included bills too, but the way she

treated me as a person did hurt me. I think I should have been

treated as an equal human being and allowed to make my own decision

about keeping my cat.

She had a dog herself, and said that the reason I couldn't move in

with my cat was in case the cat and dog didn't get on, but just a few

weeks after I moved in she decided that her dog had too many

behaviour problems, and she couldn't cope with her and rehomed her,

so my giving up Sally was all for nothing really.

 

Lodgers can have a bum deal in London I think. More social housing is

needed for anyone who can't afford to buy, and no oppressive no pets

rules, because they often penalise the people who want to take in

rescued animals.

 

There are lots of homeless people in London with dogs, and they can't

get places to rent, because even most landlords who accept people on

DSS and housing benefit, still won't allow pets.

Most of them won't give up their dogs who are their best friends and

companions, and they would rather be on the street than give them up.

 

Lesley

 

 

> brilliantly written space vegan.I'm all for respecting the Mother

Teresa's

> of this world but not celebs.I agree with all you said but don't

know about

> London housing problems although I've heard of bullying landlords

who often

> terrorise their tenants and get away with it!!!Angie

[Guest guest]

lets lynch the landlord....dead kennedys 198?

 

yep...landlords in general are scum...I hate all mine.

 

 

MrBig

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>re: lets lynch the landlord....dead kennedys 198?yep...landlords in

general are scum...I hate all mine.

 

 

When squatting last year - (with dog & cats & baby because landlords

wouldn't take animals & council negated their responsibility to house us in

spite of me having a degree in housing & knowing the law better than them,)

I decided the same. Check out the links I posted re: houses, for something

different.

 

H

 

 

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