Is there anything more fecking stupid in a densely-populated country where housing tends to be smaller than in neighbouring countries than a tradition of reserving one room for some overpriced furniture that you hardly ever use?
It's a sop to that section of the working classes who inexplicably want to appear affluent and will go in hock to their eyeballs to do so- a strange demographic that Tony Bliar did very well out of as it happens.
You have families where two kids share a bedroom or one gets a box room so small that it won't accomodate a bed and wardrobe and yet in the same house there is a fucking 'dining' room where no-one ever eats and kids aren't allowed to play in the pretence that life is as sophisticated a Gold Blend advert.
A pox on all who persist with this lunacy.
