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Originally posted by vetran View PostThere is a simple answer to the housing crisis, build more houses & have fewer people wanting them.
And while some may hate foreigners who come over here to work, if they are just buying property and pushing up house prices, then that's not a problem to some.
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Originally posted by vetran View Post...
If you have immigration requiring the building of a city the size of Newcastle every year and you don't build it then houses will go up in price.
1. Lack of social housing - councils restricted in what they can build, coupled with a tendency to encourage high-value developments.
2. Family breakdown - if a couple divorce, they need two homes, whereas before one would do.
But of course that is racist!
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£25 a week and the annual fees for college were >£200.
so that's 8 weeks money.
£9k doesn't look too bad now?
First flat was £68K I was on £19K at the time. I lived on cheese on toast & cheap coffee.
There is a simple answer to the housing crisis, build more houses & have fewer people wanting them.
If you have immigration requiring the building of a city the size of Newcastle every year and you don't build it then houses will go up in price.
If you thenimportencourage the arrival of cheap labour the wages stay low.
Interestingly after the referendum the main concern for my employer at the time was who was going to work on the factory floor, because all the British staff had been replaced with Eastern Europeans between 2005 & 2016 for some reason.
At our recent all hands meeting my new employer's CEO said exactly the same thing, no other real issues.
But of course that is racist!
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Tax on pensioners proposed to heal inter-generational divide, due to Brexit.
£10,000 handed to all young adults at the age of 25, despite Brexit.
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostOriginally posted by original PM View Post...
Nowadays the snowflakes who were lied to by Blairs labour about how everyone should go to university feel that they must go to uni - and the parents feel they must push Tarquin to go to university because Women Studies with Media is really allowing him to get in touch with his feminine side and explore gender fluidity...
Also, it wasn't Bliar who increased the cap to £9k in 2010, nor was he involved in removing the ability for students to apply for grants in 2016.
My first house was £24000. But that was oop north.
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostAs an older generation, do I give a tulip? Well no, not really. I started on £15 a week with no housing and a pregnant girlfriend. After 40+ years of work and paying not inconsiderable amounts of tax, I feel I have earned my retirement, which is 90% funded by my money anyway.
As for the youngsters who can't cope, f*** 'em, says I. Get out and cope. Or blame your parents for teaching you that you deserve without contributing.
40 years ago, according to my maths, is 1978.
Dear deity, I remember it well.
All too well.
Mounds of rubbish in the streets, dead bodies unburied in the morgues, half the country on strike.
"Crisis? What Crisis?" from our lords & masters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/921524.stm
I was lucky.
I was on about £1500/yr when I started fixing tellys for a living in 1974.
And the employer gave day release for the HNC.
And paid the fees (£140/yr).
Not to mention the rampant inflation.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 8 May 2018, 14:42.
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I reckon the yoof have something to complain about, especially if they live in the SE.
Basically, unless they inherit a large sum of money or become millionaires, which only a tiny fraction of the population will ever do, no amount of hard work is going to enable them to buy a property.
That's intrinsically unfair compared to previous generations.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostThe problem when you start saying I had £x left over in 1993 is that you aren't really comparing like with like as some things are much cheaper now e.g. clothes, small electrical goods while other things are much more expensive e.g. housing, childcare.
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostJeez, you guys really need to learn some history... And perspective
Didn't do university, out of choice, did an HNC relevant to my job instead. £15 a week gross is £12.50 or so after tax, rent was £7 of that, so £4.50 (about £55 in today's money) to cover food for three, stuff for the kid that was necessary, power and transport to work. And no social support at all of any kind other than the social services lady checking on No 1 daughter.
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Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post15GBP a week as a young man one generation ago had a hell of a lot more purchasing power than it does now. Did you have student loans per chance or were you also not part of that generation?
Didn't do university, out of choice, did an HNC relevant to my job instead. £15 a week gross is £12.50 or so after tax, rent was £7 of that, so £4.50 (about £55 in today's money) to cover food for three, stuff for the kid that was necessary, power and transport to work. And no social support at all of any kind other than the social services lady checking on No 1 daughter.
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Originally posted by vwdan View PostDon't be daft, we've got at least another 10 years of blaming Labour for everything, upto and including a global financial crisis.
...oh, no, maybe we shouldn't talk about the DM and WWII...
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