I think I have already said that I don't think there is anyone in the LP with charm at present biba70 Lisa Nandy has potential but not enough just now. By the way I don't think charm is necessarily a good thing just a requirement of the public.
As far as costs to the taxpayer go as well I was thinking of how much housing benefit is now going into the hands of private landlords and how if local authorities had still been the huge landlords they once were that money would be being spent on roads and other local services. It's not always as simple as just paying taxes.
Our Welfare State. Is it broken?