black economy and earning a further 30K a year tax free. These people are British born, not immigrants, but there are many immigrants with large families who happen to fetch up in London when they come looking for "asylum". Tell me why they should be housed in Inner London when they'd be happy to find asylum anywhere, one presumes, even Hartlepool being better than whatever God awful place with no benefits, no free education, no free healthcare... that they came from. This is another of those dopey socialist "scandals" that isn't, like the so-called Poll Tax, the fairest piece of legislation ever devised, one that would have meant households with five new cars outside actually paying some of their rightful share of public services. We moved from Oxford to Cornwall to release money to enable us to have a home and keep afloat with me facing forced retirement through illness. What's so very bad about being displaced if the alternative is abject poverty and a ridiculous burden on your not so rich fellow citizens. Lets get rid of some more people No idea. It was years ago when I had friends in Newcastle and we toured the declining cities of the North East. Hartlepool stands out as not being by any means the worst. And certainly much better than South Sudan, The Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Bangladesh. Lets get rid of some more people That extraordinarily disfunctional family seems to have shown up in practically every neighbourhood. That