Truly pathetic, this has nothing to do with socialism but more to do with snobbery! The Cpl might aspire to a four bedroomed house but can't afford it, have you heard yourself?
If the Cpl needs four bedrooms then he should get them, if the Sqn Ldr doesn't then why should he have it?
I can think of nothing worse than living near to all my work colleagues and fellow crew members, it would be just like living in quarters!
The percieved earned eliteism of some of these "Sqn Leaders" will fall by the wayside pretty quickly if they have been made redundant and become just another mister, whilst many of the Cpls (techies esp) go onto highly paid jobs in the civil sector.
This argument reminds me of several incidents in Goose bay many years ago, the dining arrangements were combined messing, The Canadians, Americans,Germans and Dutch were all happy to share a common dining room for a few weeks whilst detatched there.
Not the RAF! they arranged for a small segregated section to be made from partition boards and potted plants so that their officers could dine away from the irks!
History and tradition or snobbery and eliteism?
Whilst in the hangar there were officers only toilets! Their **** was the same as ours and it was proved regurlarly to them!