Heard on BBC radio this morning.

twat

As I said, a brain dead moron incapable of original thought.

The irony in that post coming from a man who's stock reply to anything he doesn't like is 'twat' and has the need to post  '*** is a fuckwit' type threads ! 
Says it all really!

😂😂

perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on you, I mean You can't help it, you were obviously born like it.

I ain't paying $4 to read about cc'ers in London     

Stepping off a canal towpath and on to a narrow boat was for many years a short cut to peace and tranquillity — but off-the-beaten track has become an overcrowded ­address, it seems.

Britain’s waterways are ­becoming increasingly congested as a growing number of people take to boats to beat the housing crisis. Unaffordable prices for homes on dry land have encouraged thousands to live on the water, where costs are far lower.

However, the permanent moorings in London are now all taken and the canals are home to more than 1600 water gypsies; houseboat owners who have to stay permanently on the move. Many fear that rising property ­prices will inevitably lead to similar demand in other cities with canal networks, such as Birmingham, Manchester and Cambridge.

The number of “continuous cruisers” has risen from 638 in 2012 to 1615 last year, an increase of 153 per cent.

Fran Read, of the Canal and River Trust, which administers 600 moorings in the London area, said: “There just aren’t as many permanent moorings in London as there are boats.

“If you are bringing a boat into London, the chances of you getting a mooring are pretty slender. A high percentage of continuous cruisers say that if they could get a permanent mooring, they would take one up.”

A survey of 1323 London boat dwellers by the CRT found more than half were doing it for financial rather than lifestyle reasons.

The trust, which looks after 160km of London waterways, says house prices and a spate of magazine articles about the low cost of living on a house boat are responsible for the increase.

Some users complain that London’s canals are becoming as congested and stressful as the M25 motorway. If they leave their spot to refill their water and fuel tanks, there is no guarantee they will find a mooring when they get back. Sometimes they have to travel dozens of kilometres to find somewhere else to tie up.

Many actively prefer the life of a water gypsy: unlike permanent moorings, which can cost thousands of pounds a year, temporary moorings are free.

“If you go to places like Islington, like King’s Cross, like Broadway Market, then the sites will often be busy with boats moored two abreast,” Ms Read said. “If you go to fill up your water, there might be a queue to do it. You can be looking at spending half a day just doing those chores.”

A boat licence costs £50 ($80) a month and is issued after the CRT has checked that the vessel is watertight and insured. A narrow boat can cost as little as £12,000 to buy but requires regular maintenance, particularly if it is on the move. All services are the responsibility of the owner.

Andrew Denny, a blogger known as Granny Buttons after the name of his narrow boat, tried to tie up on the Regent’s Canal recently but found someone blocking the mooring.

“He said he was keeping it for his friend who’d gone to get water,” he said. “That sort of thing is frowned upon but I couldn’t force him, and I didn’t want to tie up alongside him after an argument, so I moved on.

“People have cottoned on to the fact you can live on a boat very cheaply compared to an apartment. It is putting an immense pressure on services. It’s become a game of musical chairs. It’s got to the stage where instead of saying, ‘I’ll stop here tonight and move on tomorrow’, you stop for the night and stay for two weeks. It is putting people off visiting London. The route between Little Venice and Regent’s Park is a motorway.”

Crt really are on a media offensive against, boats without a home mooring. I wish my liscence was £50 a month.