I think you'll find with the way council houses are allocated these days, a Romanian family would be levered in before the removal van was turning the corner. At least he paid the rent.
There are a lot of champagne socialists about, I'll give you that. It's very easy to champion the plight of the poor and underprivileged while being comfortably well off oneself. One of the things that I did admire Bob Crow for, though, was that despite being able to afford to live in luxury, he...