D-day veteran, 98, put up in hostel after eviction from Dorset home
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Gdamn. This kind of thing is a different kind of sad.
It is, but if you don't own your own property then you are are the behest of someone else. We really need a national scheme where people rent to buy to stop this sort of thing happening. Houses are not being built to meet the rise in the population. This will be a story repeated manyfold under our current systems.
Guenigault said: “I don’t want to make a fuss. I suppose life goes on. The problem is I have lived too long.”
Bollocks. The problem is that the welfare state has been deliberately raped and pillaged in favour of profit for years. We're supposed to be a wealthy country, but that wealth is all gathered and ear-marked for the few at the expense of the many.
I think i disagree
I agree it's worse to have put your life on the line for a government that doesn't support you later in your life than to be a citizen who didn't fight on behalf of the nation that failed them.
Of course i dont. But if there was one single demographic youd expect a government to look after it would have to be the people that gave it all for the country to continue existing. I think its more of a look how bad things have got story than it is a this is the only reason it matters story
Start a GoFundMe and I'll send them a tenner, I am sure enough people would that we could buy the bungalow, donate it to Homes For Heroes and let him live out the rest of his life there. We threw those lads into a meatgrinder, the least we can do is make sure he doesn't spend his last days (and he doesn't sound well) in a hostel.
Then vote in a government who make it compulsory to build social housing not just "affordable" ones. Try and find a way to stop some ruthless future government from flogging them off to buy votes.