The above appeared as a 2-page spread in Rhyl's tourist guide book 1959. The advert was out-of-date by then.
The question: How might you have known the advert was out of date?
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No need to send me an email - just check your answers against mine on Sunday 1st October 2017 after 12 noon.
Recently a row broke out between Welsh Assembly member Neil McEvoy and his Plaid Cymru colleagues over the question of whether tenants of social housing properties (council and housing association) should be allowed - under certain conditions - to buy their homes as is the case in England.
Mr. McEvoy believes that tenants should have that right, but
Plaid is ganging up with the Labour Party to bring an end to the right to buy
in Wales because it reduces the social housing stock.
[Reducing would be welcome in places such as Rhyl West where we have too many Pennaf/Clwyd Alyn Housing Association properties.]
[Reducing would be welcome in places such as Rhyl West where we have too many Pennaf/Clwyd Alyn Housing Association properties.]
Private landlords can pitch their properties
down or up market according to demand, but General Purposes social housing remains only for the comparatively
deprived. Therefore it keeps poorer communities from being anything
other than poor.
[That suits the Labour Party because tenants of social housing, if they vote at all, are most likely to vote Labour.]
I have been the tenant of a Pennaf/Clwyd Alyn Housing Association flat for 16 years and would not wish to own it under any circumstances - wouldn't even want it as a gift - but I don’t believe there should be a law to prevent others from buying theirs.
[That suits the Labour Party because tenants of social housing, if they vote at all, are most likely to vote Labour.]
I have been the tenant of a Pennaf/Clwyd Alyn Housing Association flat for 16 years and would not wish to own it under any circumstances - wouldn't even want it as a gift - but I don’t believe there should be a law to prevent others from buying theirs.
Those of us in Wales who voted to have our own government did not expect that twenty years later we would have one ready to pass a law that left us with fewer legal rights than people who happen to live in England.
Welsh Assembly members need to tread carefully here.
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