I totally agree , I’m fed up living amongst tenants that don’t give a monkeys about there neighbouring tenants that smoke skunk , are alcoholics, and don’t even bother to tidy up their gardens . Noise nuisance 😢
I live in a tower block high rise and this problem is absolutely rife, mainly young people with no job partying or simply playing loud music all hours, nobody seems that interested if a complaint is made.
Well said Lee. When my parents moved away from London and into our Council House in Aylesbury way back in 1969, they had a visit the very next day from a sort of Neighbourhood Manager, who told them in no uncertain terms that the garden grass had to be cut, all fences kept in good order, the front of the house kept presentable, and any noise had to cease or be kept to a minimum from 8pm, or they would be evicted. It obviously works as my now elderly mother and I are still in it to this day :D
There are five Reform UK MPs and at least one seems to be at every committee and debate. To compare, I've seen my Labour MP speak twice in about ten years.
What your basically recognizing is Quality over quantity the 5 people in reform have done more for Britain in the last few months than hundreds of labour and hundreds of tory members have done for your country and like the last 20 years
Totally agree. They are so productive . . just the 5 of them and the difference they are already making is wonderful. They work SO HARD for us ! I pray for another general election. Reform UK will transform our broken country and it will bring everyone together. They are for the British people and their intentions are transparent and true to British life and British values. Decent hardworking, working people !
I used to live in a London Council Estate like yours 50 years ago, but that same Estate has been filled with Refugees and very necessary care workers and families who do NOT integrate! 😢
The council's in the 80s and 90s gave many shall we say Indigenous people the chance to move out of London Council estates ,some Prefab we thought would come down, no they moved Ethnic people into them ,now I am sure there must be some Londoners that remember this ,I believe that was the start of the real change to our cities.
Thankyou, Thankyou and Thankyou for bringing this up Lee Anderson. I respect you and admire you more and more, every time I hear you speak. I can relate to so much of what you’re saying. I grew up on a council estate and I had an awful time on the estate. Because I wanted to get out of that estate world, get an apprenticeship, become a carpenter, work hard, save and then go on to buying a house, I experienced so much bullying, because the bully’s hated me for the fact that I wanted a better life. The vast majority of people that I know who live on estates can work, they just choose not to. They find loopholes in the system so they can get the most amount of benefits coming to them. Having lots of children is usually an easy one to really get the benefits coming in, it also seems to get them bigger nicer houses too because they have more children to put in separate bedrooms, for their human rights, and the parents usually have no interest in raising the kids well. They just seem to like having lots of children so they get loads of money coming in, in the context of child benefits. Shocking really.
Well said Lee Anderson. We had some tenants move into the rented house next door about 6 years ago. Mum and dad were not married, dad was a goood bloke though, worked hard and now owns his own business, but it was seperating from his partner that gave him the freedom to do well, the 2 kids were not his btw. His partner didn't give a toss about her kids. The youngest was a girl of 14 who told me her plan for the future was to get pregnant and get a council house by the age of 16, she achieved that!! The boy was always suspended by the school, quite often playing loud music and smoking skunk. One Sunday night , he had a party, 15 guys,girks all pissed and partying until 3 am, i called Police, they said there was nothing they could do!! Same thing next night, got to midnight and i lost the plot, went next door and knocked, no answer, rattled the windows, still no answer, so took three steos back and kicked the door, it opebed after 4 attempts, walked yhrough the crowds of kids, up to yhe stereo, pulled all the power leads out and the speaker leads and calmly announced Party over, the shock on their faces was pricekess🤣🤣 Went to my door, locked it and calmly got into bed, wifey just looked at me and said " what the hell did you do! The house was shaking!! I explsined yo her and she replied " bet they dont do that again" They didn't and the family moved out 2 weeks later. A bit extreme, but it shows that normal people put up with a lot of shit until theur patience snaps, which is what happened to me. Lee Anderson is correct, good, hard working people shouldn't have to put up with low lifes who dont give a toss about others,but sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and stand up to these people, the police didn't want to get involved as it was a private rental, my house is bought and paid for. I understand not everyone can do what i did,best bet then is the legal route, police, council etc
Not always on social housing. A friend lives next to a house which is rented out. Loud music, growing weed, throwing things over in their garden. Council/police didn't want to no.
How about behave or loose your tenancy!!! Anti social behaviour teams are useless. Councils don't do anything. People who commit antisocial behaviours should be bought before a court and prosecuted! It's time innocent people stopped suffering! Thank you Lee for bringing this up ❤❤
I agree Lee. The Housing Associations used to be a lot more selective but now all their properties have to go to the council bidding lists. It is causing a lot more issues and expense for the Housing Associations.
@KimThomas-vp4vm check out Citizen Housing! Subsidised by taxpayers yet £500m of houses on the free market! For a non-profit organisation they have shareholders! It's all a scam!
@@yvonnesouthern6788 In the 70s, 70% of population had grown up in social housing. In those days, only about 1/2% weren't working, and disabled, the majority were hard-working, white working class families. In those days, the social housing tenants put in their own new kitchens and bathrooms. They took pride in their homes and made sure that they were up-kept. Decorating every couple of years.
Something needs to be done I've worked all my life I'm now 57 and live in a flat with neighbours both sides claiming benefits when clearly there is nothing wrong with them can smoke drink stay up all night sleep all day ,while I with real illnesses still go to work . And when I complain I'm told there more important with there social needs,and I should look at moving council didn't care and ignored all my records I'd kept until police eventually after 50 phone calls or more later made council take notice and the drunk in flat below left after violent attack on me .
Totally agree with Lee. This anti-social problem has now become a major problem in a large majority of these council housing estates all over the country because of these reprobates in our neighbourhoods. I remember years ago when i was younger when people actually took pride in their accomodation and gardens, also knowing what their children were doing and where they were doing it. They also had to be in at certain times unlike nowadays when their children are out roaming streets in early hours of the night/mornings causing trouble or damage and crimes. These families are a damned nuisance in todays society and more action needs taking to stop them, and the problem. People are sick to the teeth with them!
I am from Newham a Labour area, You follow the rules play the game and they do nothing to help just put my bills up they don't provide any good service and the radical mayor closed down most of our police stations, Newham has never been this bad ever. no English or British people in my tower block. we are not a community just people sharing a building and these people have no respect nor etiquette for others. predators taking drugs and alcohol in our children's play areas, radical preaching on our high streets. Police protects the bad ones. Kids killing kids/teens/adults. All crime is over 60%. Churches are being disrespected and vandalized. Hardly anyone speaks English, my home looks third world. REFORM UK is needed. Newham has been Labour since the start and somehow the donkey's still vote them in. We are one of the poorest areas & no good changes.
My mum is in her 80s and grew up in a council house in Southall, London. She said the house and garden had to be kept in good condition and clean and tidy or you got evicted. Standards everywhere have dropped. It's such a shame.
@pearlsaminger9544 I think my mum moved to Lincoln in the 60's when she married my dad. Mum said you had to have your house looking well looked after or you were kicked out. Think she said they had inspections.
A privilege not a right’ if only the housing associations would tell their tenants. The Ferrell families think they have a god dam right to do as they please and terrorise neighbours. Thank you Lee we need people like you to be on every tenants board. 😊
It's not just happening on council estates . It's happening on normal, very nice estates where houses cost in the region of £500,000 but unfortunately, the councils allow social housing tenants to move into many of those properties as part of the developers planning permission.
I live as an expat in China and we dealt with loud neighbors a few days ago consistently drinking into early morning. We contacted property management downstairs who have people on duty around the clock. Our neighbors wouldn't listen, so they filed a report to the police, and they came within half an hour. It's been quite ever since, a police record has been done And they will face a fine every single time there is a complaint. I was actually shocked not to have been scorned by the police for complaining, as this would have happened back home for wasting police time. China is a developing country, the uk is a first world advanced economy, The quality of here is far higher. In fact, anti social behavior is non existant because it is incredibly inappropriate and looked down upon in society. I never understood whuly antisocial behavior is part of the fabric in Britain when it causes so much stress in peoples lives, but then again it has beem appropriated by inaction; people don't call each other out on it
lee is right Me and my husband live in social housing And have always worked and have a son with special needs And we have had to live around people in the past who have threatened us to the point where we have had to call the police Because they have been drunk played loud music till late at night And care very little for other people who have get up for work or who have kids that go to school
Bang on the money Lee. My road on the council estate i live has suffered due to this issue and both me and the wife who have worked all our lives sometimes regret buying our council house.
Well said Lee - it needs sorting for sure to stop this anti-social behaviour. There also needs to be something in place to work on what causing the behaviour in the first place and heal it at that level too IMO xx
Good, sensible views of the sort my family had in the postwar years where my brother and I grew up in a council prefab bungalow in the 1950's when the rules were as Lee Anderson described. I don't know why they ever stopped, but it simply made things a lot worse from then on.
I can remember as a child the rent man coming around collecting rent and doing a visual check. If your garden wasn't cut they would give you a wk to cut or they would come in and do it, putting the charge back on your rent. We looked after what was given to us and thankful for social housing. There was no real anti social behaviour because they dealt with it and everybody looked after each other. There was real punishment back then, better days and we could walk the streets. Doors were left open and I completely agree with Mr Anderson and should be listened to.........
Fully support this debate, with open arms. We have an issue with the smell of weed daily. Entering our flats. We have complained so many times, over 3 years!! Still nothing gets done. They write letters. But they don’t listen they carry on. There are approx 6 flats continuously complaining. But aren’t getting anywhere. We have children, work full time and we have to put up with this. I am so glad you raised this topic. It’s a breath of fresh air. We have threatened to withhold our rent and threatened legal action. Children are having to breathe this in and the housing association doesn’t care. It’s a disgrace. We also had a lot of antisocial behaviour. One alcoholic was evicted. But it took a year and only because 5 of us purchased ring doorbells to get evidence. Of how bad it actually was. We need serious measures in place. I think you need to start with the benefits system. If they have been evicted they should no longer be aloud housing benefit. If they are misbehaving, for each warning their benefits should be reduced. 1st warning ⚠️ Benefit reduced by a third. 2nd warning ⚠️ Benefit reduced by half. 3rd warning ⚠️ loss of all benefits and evicted. No longer allowed onto the housing register or able to claim benefits. I also believe that if someone is on benefits for more than 6 months!! And fit and able bodied. They should have to do voluntary work for the benefits of 20-30 hours a week. Until they get a job. I believe this will stop 🛑 the laziness and scrounging. Unfortunately it’s made to easy for people to claim these days. Also it would stop people working and claiming fraudulently. Because if they had to do voluntary work they couldn’t be in two places at once.
I was born and lived all my life in a council home. Most of us worked. Drugs are an issue. The state of many properties are far from. Totally agree with you.
I used to live in social housing owned by Moat Housing. We were moved from an upper floor Council owned maisonette to the house for medical reasons. From day 1 we had a terrible noise nuisance and the local kids were out of control. They made our lives a misery. Our house was literally under seige. My car was damaged and families used to stand in the street drinking and use my car as a beer garden table! Moat Housing started a case 5 times with 5 different housing officers in the 4 years we lived there, even though the Tenancy Agreement stated that the families could be evicted. It made us so ill that we eventually moved out and into private housing. We shouldn't have been the ones that had to move. I tried to take Moat to court for a breach of contract and, although I had a good case, I could no longer get legal aid. Basically, one can only get legal representation if you are a criminal. Eventually, we were placed back into Council social housing again due to medical issues (our private rent accommodation was no longer suitable) and we love it where we are now. We have great neighbours. Unfortunately, one side are elderly and I worry about when the house becomes vacant. Who will we get move in? It's not all good, as we do have issues from time to time, but it's manageable. I fully support your debate and hope that this government takes note and takes action.
Spot on Lee! We're providing certain families with social housing with 'no real responsibilities' to being decent neighbours. All it takes is one family, and they can make life hell for a block, street, estate where we often see the Council stating there's not much they can do about unacceptable behaviour unless say for example they don't pay rent (which is paid already by the state). The few are making life hell for the many!
Hoping that Lee or his team read the comments. I think it's important to remember those of us that have purchased council houses in previously good social areas that are now affected by antisocial behaviour and those that do not understand social British values. Not only should there be an expectation on those lucky enough to get social housing and take care of them, but to keep in mind those that now own some of these houses through hard work and abiding the law still deserve to live in safe and calm environments also. I don't see how the police have money and resource to monitor the socials and make arrests, but not the ability to patrol local estates to combat scooter/motorcycle crime and burglaries. Anyway, keep fighting the good fight.
Brilliant man that tell the truth, they get a good house and they don’t care about others that do work, they upset workers that need a good sleep and safety for young children, that don’t care, they need to move them
It's so weird how more conservative politicians seem to have moved toward helping the working class while the left have shifted in the opposite direction. A total reversal.
Again, a wonderfully well put-together address by Lee. He researches and speaks the truth. He's always very "human" and quite often comical but then brings you back to the facts ! I love listening to him and watching him speak. What a credit he is to Reform UK. He stands by what he believes and has common sense. Agree with literally everything he says ! Top bloke, valuable MP. Keep it up Lee and thank you for everything you're doing.
The trouble with social housing tenents is that these tenents are never checked on, the houses are never checked, the gardens etc. They would rather sit on their very large behinds behind a computer screen than do that.
It happens everywhere drug dealing fighting shouting abuse at residents in streets Mine was a quiet area till a certain person moved in Now the police are never away and he is still there
Lee,will always get my vote.He speaks for ordinary,decent,working people.Not just this important issue. But on ,EVERY,issue that concerns decent, working people.
Well done Lee! Bad neighbours, wherever they be can turn life into a nightmare. I have lived in social housing when first married, two properties both on lovely new estates......Sadly to return years later they were to become the very undesirable estates of that town. We were lucky to have right to buy, stayed a while then moved to private housing. Had to move a couple of times from those due to bad neighbours, BUT then we had a choice! In social housing rental that rarely exists. Great idea to put them together, but could turn into "war". Writing and threatening eviction would work with many....and some just couldn't care less.
I've worked all my life, never claimed a single benefit and can't get anywhere close to a council house even with 3 young children, and with private rent prices through the roof in my area I've completely given up hope with it. When I see these idiots most of whom haven't worked a day in their lives causing trouble, and letting their homes fall into disrepair, overgrown gardens and rubbish strewn everywhere it really does wind me up. We live in a nation now where hardworking citizens are just left to rot at the bottom of the barrel, while freeloaders and migrants etc get treated better. What kind of message is that sending to our youth, we need to act now before it is too late, 100% agree with everything you said Lee, only wish we had an MP in my constituency with half the personality and class that you have. Bravo 👏
Thank you Reform for speaking at these debates that other parties seem completely disinterested in. What Lee said about deserving the house on merits not needs make sense to me. I moved from my first privately owned house that was next to social housing due to drug dealing and kids playing out in the road until the early hours. I worked from school (50 now), paid my taxes for what? Parents totally need to be held to account for the behaviour of themselves and any children they have. What in the world of common sense is wrong about that? I don't want to pay tax to fund feral kids and parent drug/alcohol/tobacco addictions. Or I will if they fund me a 2 week break in the Caribbean every year to escape this countries insanity.
I lived next to a social house it was an absolute mental health nightmare for myself. Noise, music, weed smell, children playing at 2am, gardens a mess, brambles growing in the garden coming into mine killing my plants, banging on the walls, threats & police visits! Drug dealing went on too. The police are so backwards these days they arrested me for threats but didn’t arrest him/them! The CPS threw it out over the three times I got arrested, the police were not doing their job properly! Homophobic remarks the police still didn’t do anything! They were committing a hate crime yet no police action - probably because I told the top lady in the force she was useless and not worthy of cleaning the public toilets! It was a mental health disaster for myself. It was my first house I bought and I hated it. I was so relieved to have sold it! Never again would I buy next to a social house. I would pay £50 to do a land registry search on both properties to the side of me and around before I signed to complete and if it was social I’d pull out of the purchase! Social housing tenants are awful I’ve seen and heard of these situations so many times. AVOID LIVING NEAR ANY KIND OF SOCIAL HOUSING
Council homes are often given to the most unsuitable people, it's about time they were rented to hard working folk, who will look after the home, and pay their own rent.
I have to pay five hundred pounds a week rent for a private house and put myself in debt because all the council houses are being taken up by migrants it's not fair I've payed all my taxes all my life and can't get nothing never lost a day of work rewarded zero wish I hadn't paid a penny now
Couldn't agree more . I experienced bad tenants when a young addict was given the flat above me in a lovely grove all private. We all got on and helped each other . I was working shifts at the hospital and was having no sleep . Was dick of knocking on her door only to get more grief . I was going to Dr's woth stress . I was at tge end of my tether. I had the Mayor visit me, mayor of Wigan. I asked could we possibly make the Grove over 50s residents seeing as most already where she said it wasn't possible ! Few months later I witnessed a horrendous incident where my neighbour & some of her lot attacked a taxi driver hitting him on the head constantly it was horrendous n still gives me anxiety when I think of it ! I moved out of this grove I'd lived in for over 12 year and rented private, I didn't want to move but felt I'd no choice as all young addicts where being moved into the grove . 5 year later I visited the grove .. it fevered beauruit! Flats boarded up , caravans dirty broken run down parked on drives with folk living in them , rubbish everywhere , gates missing , curtains hanging from windows . I was told the elderly had , had to move as they were bring terrorised ! It stinks What was a lovely friendly, neighbourly grove destroyed and taken over by wasters ..they do not deserve council property o r any other until they show that they are responsible people ! I felt so so sad ! 😢
Fixing this will have reverberations throughout society. It is an absolute disgrace that it has been allowed to happen and fester for so long. Some people are too willing to be "kind" and not think of the basic realities and pain it causes.
When you have experienced the fall out from noisy anti social behaviour,then you can understand why some lose the plot and deal with this scourge themselves.it shouldnt happen,the authorities should adopt a zero tolerance.well done lee for speaking out.
Yet again, I could not agree more. I've said the same for years. If you are in government housing and commit a serious crime, you're kicked out. It isn't your right to cause others' misery
On a similar vibe, quite a few people in London push their way through the wider weaker barriers to the underground designed for disabled people, underground workers just stand and watch them do it, it makes you think "well why am i paying 150 quid a month for this if they'll just let people ride it for free"
Also, wry concerning are the anti social yobs let into freehold neighbourhoods by nefarious estate agents who put them there, having taken advantage of the housing market crisis, and then not keeping up with the property or the tenants who cause private owners misery and chaos.
I wouldn’t know iv been on the social housing waiting list for twenty years and still at the bottom of the list , iv to wait ten years for a hospital appointment. And these politicians have a check to expect people like me to fight if war comes .
Yet again Lee Anderson and Reform speak the truth and common sense.
Great points Lee Anderson
Very well said Lee!
These houses are a privilege NOT A RIGHT!!
Reform UK 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Keep going sir we are with you....thank god for some one who will stand with the public
I totally agree , I’m fed up living amongst tenants that don’t give a monkeys about there neighbouring tenants that smoke skunk , are alcoholics, and don’t even bother to tidy up their gardens . Noise nuisance 😢
A good deal of these issues can be traced to trickle down of crap parenting through generations.
And they have the opportunities to pull themselves up from their boot straps instead of repeating generational dysfunction and trauma.
Totally agree! Parents need more accountability for their own childrens actions.
I live in a tower block high rise and this problem is absolutely rife, mainly young people with no job partying or simply playing loud music all hours, nobody seems that interested if a complaint is made.
same here pal.
FANTASTIC Lee!
Thank You!!
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Well done Lee, why are there so few people there for this exceptionally important issue that effects people in Britain?
Because governments & authorities do not have to live amongst this so they do not care. We are only British tax payers to them.
Well said Lee.
When my parents moved away from London and into our Council House in Aylesbury way back in 1969, they had a visit the very next day from a sort of Neighbourhood Manager, who told them in no uncertain terms that the garden grass had to be cut, all fences kept in good order, the front of the house kept presentable, and any noise had to cease or be kept to a minimum from 8pm, or they would be evicted.
It obviously works as my now elderly mother and I are still in it to this day :D
As it should be
There are five Reform UK MPs and at least one seems to be at every committee and debate. To compare, I've seen my Labour MP speak twice in about ten years.
I've noticed that too. Where on earth are all the MPs who could/should be in all those empty seats?!
What your basically recognizing is Quality over quantity the 5 people in reform have done more for Britain in the last few months than hundreds of labour and hundreds of tory members have done for your country and like the last 20 years
Totally agree. They are so productive . . just the 5 of them and the difference they are already making is wonderful. They work SO HARD for us ! I pray for another general election. Reform UK will transform our broken country and it will bring everyone together. They are for the British people and their intentions are transparent and true to British life and British values. Decent hardworking, working people !
Excellent Lee Anderson !
Hear, hear. Absolutely correct. Long overdue getting tough on anti-social behaviour. Zero tolerance needed.
GO ON LEE!
WELL SPOKEN 💯% AGREED SIR!🫡
BRITAIN NEEDS REFORM 🇬🇧🩵
What a party that wants private health care and bringing back fox hunting…all this on the pretence of populist vote .
Well said Lee, every word is true. Our parents generation would be so ashamed of them, the anti socials have no pride or self respect.
I myself live in social housing, i have no problems whatsoever, fantastic indigenous neighbours, so lucky,,,
It’s crazy init
I used to live in a London Council Estate like yours 50 years ago, but that same Estate has been filled with Refugees and very necessary care workers and families who do NOT integrate! 😢
@ it’s nuts
The council's in the 80s and 90s gave many shall we say Indigenous people the chance to move out of London Council estates ,some Prefab we thought would come down, no they moved Ethnic people into them ,now I am sure there must be some Londoners that remember this ,I believe that was the start of the real change to our cities.
I'm very happy to hear that, good for you.
Not only council estates, rented houses in residential areas too
I know people who have never had a job but are living in council housing.
Ang get everything . Short of nothing ...
Thankyou, Thankyou and Thankyou for bringing this up Lee Anderson. I respect you and admire you more and more, every time I hear you speak. I can relate to so much of what you’re saying. I grew up on a council estate and I had an awful time on the estate. Because I wanted to get out of that estate world, get an apprenticeship, become a carpenter, work hard, save and then go on to buying a house, I experienced so much bullying, because the bully’s hated me for the fact that I wanted a better life.
The vast majority of people that I know who live on estates can work, they just choose not to. They find loopholes in the system so they can get the most amount of benefits coming to them. Having lots of children is usually an easy one to really get the benefits coming in, it also seems to get them bigger nicer houses too because they have more children to put in separate bedrooms, for their human rights, and the parents usually have no interest in raising the kids well. They just seem to like having lots of children so they get loads of money coming in, in the context of child benefits.
Shocking really.
Well said Lee Anderson.
We had some tenants move into the rented house next door about 6 years ago.
Mum and dad were not married, dad was a goood bloke though, worked hard and now owns his own business, but it was seperating from his partner that gave him the freedom to do well, the 2 kids were not his btw.
His partner didn't give a toss about her kids. The youngest was a girl of 14 who told me her plan for the future was to get pregnant and get a council house by the age of 16, she achieved that!!
The boy was always suspended by the school, quite often playing loud music and smoking skunk.
One Sunday night , he had a party, 15 guys,girks all pissed and partying until 3 am, i called Police, they said there was nothing they could do!!
Same thing next night, got to midnight and i lost the plot, went next door and knocked, no answer, rattled the windows, still no answer, so took three steos back and kicked the door, it opebed after 4 attempts, walked yhrough the crowds of kids, up to yhe stereo, pulled all the power leads out and the speaker leads and calmly announced Party over, the shock on their faces was pricekess🤣🤣
Went to my door, locked it and calmly got into bed, wifey just looked at me and said " what the hell did you do! The house was shaking!! I explsined yo her and she replied " bet they dont do that again"
They didn't and the family moved out 2 weeks later.
A bit extreme, but it shows that normal people put up with a lot of shit until theur patience snaps, which is what happened to me.
Lee Anderson is correct, good, hard working people shouldn't have to put up with low lifes who dont give a toss about others,but sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and stand up to these people, the police didn't want to get involved as it was a private rental, my house is bought and paid for.
I understand not everyone can do what i did,best bet then is the legal route, police, council etc
The council is a bloody waste of time ... 7 yrs + of recording and mediation, they're still there making noise 20 yrs down the line .
Not always on social housing. A friend lives next to a house which is rented out. Loud music, growing weed, throwing things over in their garden. Council/police didn't want to no.
Could be receiving housing benefit though …
They won't do anything until things spill out on the street - that was the police in Milton Keynes
The council doesn’t build slums people make them slums it’s as simple as that 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Well said Lee. The problem with providing social housing on need it ignores the bad behaviour and leaves the innocent to suffer bad behaviour.
How about behave or loose your tenancy!!!
Anti social behaviour teams are useless. Councils don't do anything. People who commit antisocial behaviours should be bought before a court and prosecuted! It's time innocent people stopped suffering!
Thank you Lee for bringing this up ❤❤
I agree Lee. The Housing Associations used to be a lot more selective but now all their properties have to go to the council bidding lists. It is causing a lot more issues and expense for the Housing Associations.
@KimThomas-vp4vm check out Citizen Housing! Subsidised by taxpayers yet £500m of houses on the free market! For a non-profit organisation they have shareholders! It's all a scam!
Housing associations give them str8 to m1grants
Couldn't agree more . I can see my area deteriorating as new tenants move in , young families!
@@yvonnesouthern6788 In the 70s, 70% of population had grown up in social housing. In those days, only about 1/2% weren't working, and disabled, the majority were hard-working, white working class families. In those days, the social housing tenants put in their own new kitchens and bathrooms. They took pride in their homes and made sure that they were up-kept. Decorating every couple of years.
@@yvonnesouthern6788 Mum left London in the 90s, she didn't feel safe anymore in Camden.
Something needs to be done I've worked all my life I'm now 57 and live in a flat with neighbours both sides claiming benefits when clearly there is nothing wrong with them can smoke drink stay up all night sleep all day ,while I with real illnesses still go to work . And when I complain I'm told there more important with there social needs,and I should look at moving council didn't care and ignored all my records I'd kept until police eventually after 50 phone calls or more later made council take notice and the drunk in flat below left after violent attack on me .
There are illnesses that aren't visible. Mental illness being one of them!
Disgusting!
The good people of Ashfield are so lucky to have Lee.
Totally agree with Lee. This anti-social problem has now become a major problem in a large majority of these council housing estates all over the country because of these reprobates in our neighbourhoods.
I remember years ago when i was younger when people actually took pride in their accomodation and gardens, also knowing what their children were doing and where they were doing it. They also had to be in at certain times unlike nowadays when their children are out roaming streets in early hours of the night/mornings causing trouble or damage and crimes.
These families are a damned nuisance in todays society and more action needs taking to stop them, and the problem.
People are sick to the teeth with them!
Can the housing association be taken to court for not fulfilling their contract?
The housing associations and councils are not bothered CNN in the slightest as long as they receive their rent from the government!
Not just council housing, private landlords don't give a damn about who the rent to so long as they get paid.
The heroin addicts in social housing near me have destroyed the lives of all around them. And the Housing Association (Together Housing) do nothing.
Are people payed by the tax payers to attend these discussions? Why is the room empty?
I am from Newham a Labour area, You follow the rules play the game and they do nothing to help just put my bills up they don't provide any good service and the radical mayor closed down most of our police stations, Newham has never been this bad ever. no English or British people in my tower block. we are not a community just people sharing a building and these people have no respect nor etiquette for others. predators taking drugs and alcohol in our children's play areas, radical preaching on our high streets. Police protects the bad ones. Kids killing kids/teens/adults. All crime is over 60%. Churches are being disrespected and vandalized. Hardly anyone speaks English, my home looks third world. REFORM UK is needed. Newham has been Labour since the start and somehow the donkey's still vote them in. We are one of the poorest areas & no good changes.
My mum is in her 80s and grew up in a council house in Southall, London. She said the house and garden had to be kept in good condition and clean and tidy or you got evicted. Standards everywhere have dropped. It's such a shame.
... snap, we moved to Southall , in the 70's people took a pride in their property. I can remember polishing the doorstep
@pearlsaminger9544 I think my mum moved to Lincoln in the 60's when she married my dad. Mum said you had to have your house looking well looked after or you were kicked out. Think she said they had inspections.
Well said lee
with you 100%Lee.
A privilege not a right’ if only the housing associations would tell their tenants. The Ferrell families think they have a god dam right to do as they please and terrorise neighbours. Thank you Lee we need people like you to be on every tenants board. 😊
Cut the benefits and make them work.
Those that can work but refuse to work, stop paying benefits.
It's not just happening on council estates . It's happening on normal, very nice estates where houses cost in the region of £500,000 but unfortunately, the councils allow social housing tenants to move into many of those properties as part of the developers planning permission.
So we'll said Lee, couldn't agree more.
Well said ...Good man!
Excellen Lee it's how all decent people think .
A neighbours nightmare!
I live as an expat in China and we dealt with loud neighbors a few days ago consistently drinking into early morning. We contacted property management downstairs who have people on duty around the clock. Our neighbors wouldn't listen, so they filed a report to the police, and they came within half an hour. It's been quite ever since, a police record has been done And they will face a fine every single time there is a complaint. I was actually shocked not to have been scorned by the police for complaining, as this would have happened back home for wasting police time. China is a developing country, the uk is a first world advanced economy, The quality of here is far higher. In fact, anti social behavior is non existant because it is incredibly inappropriate and looked down upon in society. I never understood whuly antisocial behavior is part of the fabric in Britain when it causes so much stress in peoples lives, but then again it has beem appropriated by inaction; people don't call each other out on it
Totally agree, no fathers, and noise nuisances.
Those who refuse to accept the responsibilities of citizenship should have no rights.
lee is right
Me and my husband live in social housing
And have always worked and have a son with special needs
And we have had to live around people in the past who have threatened us to the point where we have had to call the police
Because they have been drunk
played loud music till late at night
And care very little for other people who have get up for work or who have kids that go to school
Breakdown of family again.
Bang on the money Lee. My road on the council estate i live has suffered due to this issue and both me and the wife who have worked all our lives sometimes regret buying our council house.
Absolutely, he is once again telling the unwelcome truth.
Has anybody been noticing that instead of going foreward in life ,the uk is going backwards!
We are becoming truly UNCIVILISED in every area of life.
Well said Lee - it needs sorting for sure to stop this anti-social behaviour. There also needs to be something in place to work on what causing the behaviour in the first place and heal it at that level too IMO xx
Good, sensible views of the sort my family had in the postwar years where my brother and I grew up in a council prefab bungalow in the 1950's when the rules were as Lee Anderson described. I don't know why they ever stopped, but it simply made things a lot worse from then on.
I can remember as a child the rent man coming around collecting rent and doing a visual check. If your garden wasn't cut they would give you a wk to cut or they would come in and do it, putting the charge back on your rent. We looked after what was given to us and thankful for social housing. There was no real anti social behaviour because they dealt with it and everybody looked after each other. There was real punishment back then, better days and we could walk the streets. Doors were left open and I completely agree with Mr Anderson and should be listened to.........
Keep it going .....parliment out of order.
Fully support this debate, with open arms. We have an issue with the smell of weed daily. Entering our flats. We have complained so many times, over 3 years!! Still nothing gets done. They write letters. But they don’t listen they carry on. There are approx 6 flats continuously complaining. But aren’t getting anywhere. We have children, work full time and we have to put up with this. I am so glad you raised this topic. It’s a breath of fresh air. We have threatened to withhold our rent and threatened legal action. Children are having to breathe this in and the housing association doesn’t care. It’s a disgrace. We also had a lot of antisocial behaviour. One alcoholic was evicted. But it took a year and only because 5 of us purchased ring doorbells to get evidence. Of how bad it actually was. We need serious measures in place. I think you need to start with the benefits system. If they have been evicted they should no longer be aloud housing benefit. If they are misbehaving, for each warning their benefits should be reduced.
1st warning ⚠️ Benefit reduced by a third.
2nd warning ⚠️ Benefit reduced by half.
3rd warning ⚠️ loss of all benefits and evicted. No longer allowed onto the housing register or able to claim benefits.
I also believe that if someone is on benefits for more than 6 months!! And fit and able bodied. They should have to do voluntary work for the benefits of 20-30 hours a week. Until they get a job. I believe this will stop 🛑 the laziness and scrounging. Unfortunately it’s made to easy for people to claim these days. Also it would stop people working and claiming fraudulently. Because if they had to do voluntary work they couldn’t be in two places at once.
I was born and lived all my life in a council home. Most of us worked. Drugs are an issue. The state of many properties are far from.
Totally agree with you.
I used to live in social housing owned by Moat Housing. We were moved from an upper floor Council owned maisonette to the house for medical reasons. From day 1 we had a terrible noise nuisance and the local kids were out of control. They made our lives a misery. Our house was literally under seige. My car was damaged and families used to stand in the street drinking and use my car as a beer garden table! Moat Housing started a case 5 times with 5 different housing officers in the 4 years we lived there, even though the Tenancy Agreement stated that the families could be evicted. It made us so ill that we eventually moved out and into private housing. We shouldn't have been the ones that had to move. I tried to take Moat to court for a breach of contract and, although I had a good case, I could no longer get legal aid. Basically, one can only get legal representation if you are a criminal. Eventually, we were placed back into Council social housing again due to medical issues (our private rent accommodation was no longer suitable) and we love it where we are now. We have great neighbours. Unfortunately, one side are elderly and I worry about when the house becomes vacant. Who will we get move in? It's not all good, as we do have issues from time to time, but it's manageable. I fully support your debate and hope that this government takes note and takes action.
Think you will be voting Reform. So sorry what you went through.
1 bad apple in the barrel comes to mind
Fantastic, what can be done with private renters ?
Well said 👍
Spot on Lee! We're providing certain families with social housing with 'no real responsibilities' to being decent neighbours. All it takes is one family, and they can make life hell for a block, street, estate where we often see the Council stating there's not much they can do about unacceptable behaviour unless say for example they don't pay rent (which is paid already by the state). The few are making life hell for the many!
Lee should be PM.
Have you seen the state of council estates more like rubbish dumps
Why dosent the council clear it up then ..
A man speaking sense but unfortunately nothing will be done.
@jamesowen1213 yes! He can feed you for 30p! His knowledge of the real world knows no bounds!
Hoping that Lee or his team read the comments.
I think it's important to remember those of us that have purchased council houses in previously good social areas that are now affected by antisocial behaviour and those that do not understand social British values.
Not only should there be an expectation on those lucky enough to get social housing and take care of them, but to keep in mind those that now own some of these houses through hard work and abiding the law still deserve to live in safe and calm environments also.
I don't see how the police have money and resource to monitor the socials and make arrests, but not the ability to patrol local estates to combat scooter/motorcycle crime and burglaries.
Anyway, keep fighting the good fight.
Brilliant man that tell the truth, they get a good house and they don’t care about others that do work, they upset workers that need a good sleep and safety for young children, that don’t care, they need to move them
It's so weird how more conservative politicians seem to have moved toward helping the working class while the left have shifted in the opposite direction. A total reversal.
Again, a wonderfully well put-together address by Lee. He researches and speaks the truth. He's always very "human" and quite often comical but then brings you back to the facts ! I love listening to him and watching him speak. What a credit he is to Reform UK. He stands by what he believes and has common sense. Agree with literally everything he says ! Top bloke, valuable MP. Keep it up Lee and thank you for everything you're doing.
The trouble with social housing tenents is that these tenents are never checked on, the houses are never checked, the gardens etc. They would rather sit on their very large behinds behind a computer screen than do that.
It happens everywhere drug dealing fighting shouting abuse at residents in streets
Mine was a quiet area till a certain person moved in
Now the police are never away and he is still there
Lee,will always get my vote.He speaks for ordinary,decent,working people.Not just this important issue. But on ,EVERY,issue that concerns decent, working people.
Well done Lee! Bad neighbours, wherever they be can turn life into a nightmare. I have lived in social housing when first married, two properties both on lovely new estates......Sadly to return years later they were to become the very undesirable estates of that town. We were lucky to have right to buy, stayed a while then moved to private housing. Had to move a couple of times from those due to bad neighbours, BUT then we had a choice! In social housing rental that rarely exists. Great idea to put them together, but could turn into "war". Writing and threatening eviction would work with many....and some just couldn't care less.
I've worked all my life, never claimed a single benefit and can't get anywhere close to a council house even with 3 young children, and with private rent prices through the roof in my area I've completely given up hope with it.
When I see these idiots most of whom haven't worked a day in their lives causing trouble, and letting their homes fall into disrepair, overgrown gardens and rubbish strewn everywhere it really does wind me up.
We live in a nation now where hardworking citizens are just left to rot at the bottom of the barrel, while freeloaders and migrants etc get treated better.
What kind of message is that sending to our youth, we need to act now before it is too late, 100% agree with everything you said Lee, only wish we had an MP in my constituency with half the personality and class that you have.
Bravo 👏
Like this Man true values, straight talking Every single true Brit vote Reform 🏴 Great Britain 🇬🇧
Thank you Reform for speaking at these debates that other parties seem completely disinterested in. What Lee said about deserving the house on merits not needs make sense to me. I moved from my first privately owned house that was next to social housing due to drug dealing and kids playing out in the road until the early hours. I worked from school (50 now), paid my taxes for what? Parents totally need to be held to account for the behaviour of themselves and any children they have. What in the world of common sense is wrong about that? I don't want to pay tax to fund feral kids and parent drug/alcohol/tobacco addictions. Or I will if they fund me a 2 week break in the Caribbean every year to escape this countries insanity.
I lived next to a social house it was an absolute mental health nightmare for myself. Noise, music, weed smell, children playing at 2am, gardens a mess, brambles growing in the garden coming into mine killing my plants, banging on the walls, threats & police visits! Drug dealing went on too. The police are so backwards these days they arrested me for threats but didn’t arrest him/them! The CPS threw it out over the three times I got arrested, the police were not doing their job properly! Homophobic remarks the police still didn’t do anything! They were committing a hate crime yet no police action - probably because I told the top lady in the force she was useless and not worthy of cleaning the public toilets! It was a mental health disaster for myself. It was my first house I bought and I hated it. I was so relieved to have sold it! Never again would I buy next to a social house. I would pay £50 to do a land registry search on both properties to the side of me and around before I signed to complete and if it was social I’d pull out of the purchase! Social housing tenants are awful I’ve seen and heard of these situations so many times. AVOID LIVING NEAR ANY KIND OF SOCIAL HOUSING
Lee Anderson for MP ASAP 🙏🙏🙏
"No discipline. No respect, No order" Joseph Gobels. 1934.
This is ALL so true, seen it in our community. No parental discipline etc. Lee has brilliant ideas!
Nicevto hear someone speaking about this.
I really like Lee.
Once again absolute common sense and something that should be happening without question!
At last a man who understands the working class people
Thank you Lee Anderson
@frankcraker6955 yes! And knows how to feed you for 30p! His knowledge of the real world is outstanding!
Council homes are often given to the most unsuitable people, it's about time they were rented to hard working folk, who will look after the home, and pay their own rent.
I have to pay five hundred pounds a week rent for a private house and put myself in debt because all the council houses are being taken up by migrants it's not fair I've payed all my taxes all my life and can't get nothing never lost a day of work rewarded zero wish I hadn't paid a penny now
Couldn't agree more . I experienced bad tenants when a young addict was given the flat above me in a lovely grove all private. We all got on and helped each other . I was working shifts at the hospital and was having no sleep . Was dick of knocking on her door only to get more grief . I was going to Dr's woth stress . I was at tge end of my tether.
I had the Mayor visit me, mayor of Wigan. I asked could we possibly make the Grove over 50s residents seeing as most already where she said it wasn't possible ! Few months later I witnessed a horrendous incident where my neighbour & some of her lot attacked a taxi driver hitting him on the head constantly it was horrendous n still gives me anxiety when I think of it ! I moved out of this grove I'd lived in for over 12 year and rented private, I didn't want to move but felt I'd no choice as all young addicts where being moved into the grove .
5 year later I visited the grove .. it fevered beauruit! Flats boarded up , caravans dirty broken run down parked on drives with folk living in them , rubbish everywhere , gates missing , curtains hanging from windows . I was told the elderly had , had to move as they were bring terrorised ! It stinks
What was a lovely friendly, neighbourly grove destroyed and taken over by wasters ..they do not deserve council property o r any other until they show that they are responsible people ! I felt so so sad ! 😢
Fixing this will have reverberations throughout society. It is an absolute disgrace that it has been allowed to happen and fester for so long. Some people are too willing to be "kind" and not think of the basic realities and pain it causes.
Build council estates. Stop making 25% of all new build estates for social housing. Stop punishing hard work!
SENEX12 Without going into detail you are exactly right in what you are saying.
When you have experienced the fall out from noisy anti social behaviour,then you can understand why some lose the plot and deal with this scourge themselves.it shouldnt happen,the authorities should adopt a zero tolerance.well done lee for speaking out.
They need to change the homeless persons act that was introduced in 1970 , that’s where all the problems started 😢
Yet again, I could not agree more. I've said the same for years. If you are in government housing and commit a serious crime, you're kicked out. It isn't your right to cause others' misery
On a similar vibe, quite a few people in London push their way through the wider weaker barriers to the underground designed for disabled people, underground workers just stand and watch them do it, it makes you think "well why am i paying 150 quid a month for this if they'll just let people ride it for free"
We are moving end of the month because of a feral family. My car vandalised twice, last time ,last Monday. £415 for window glass and fitting.
I made complaints ,my neighbors made complaints about a particular tenant that is a complete nightmare and we don't get listened too , they ignore us
Thank you
Some of the families live in cesspits throw out rubbish on the floors.
Also, wry concerning are the anti social yobs let into freehold neighbourhoods by nefarious estate agents who put them there, having taken advantage of the housing market crisis, and then not keeping up with the property or the tenants who cause private owners misery and chaos.
❤ Well said young man ❤
Wow, such a priority, see how full the seats are! Standing room only! 😡
I wouldn’t know iv been on the social housing waiting list for twenty years and still at the bottom of the list , iv to wait ten years for a hospital appointment. And these politicians have a check to expect people like me to fight if war comes .