I try not to be political in this blog. I actually believe that most politicians mean well, whatever angle they're coming from. Despite my a-political stance, I had to comment on something from the recent oarty conferences.
You may or may not like Chancellor George Osborne (and most vocal people, it seems, do not), but it is surely hard to disagree with one thing he said at the recent Conservative Party Conference.
He said: "How can we justify giving flats to young people who have never worked, when working people twice their age are still living with their parents because they can't afford their first home?"
And how can we?
I know personally two teenage girls who deliberately got themselves pregnant so that, with a baby, they would be on the list (and be given) accommodation and would not have to work.
These girls may not end up having a great life, but they made their choice - based on not wanting to work - and will have to live with the consequences.
But why should they be given accommodation while other hard-working youngsters are striving to make a living for themselves and save anough money to be able to move out of the family home - whether that's to rented accommodation to a property financed by a mortgage?
It makes no sense to me.
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