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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
    I heard they won't be using .NET
    Or any local labour

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  • DiscoStu
    replied
    Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
    lads you're missing the bigger picture,

    such systems are going to create a lot of jobs and require massive computer systems and therefore generate a lot of employment as well as stopping house prices from falling which will give borrowers/consumers more confidence and bring the economy back into growth

    therefore, this proposal is good

    Milan.
    I heard they won't be using .NET

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  • beaker
    replied
    FFS this government has no grasp of basic economics. What next?

    <conspiracy theory>
    I think they want us to be part of the public sector, where we can enjoy our tax-payer subsidised canteens and go home to our tax-payer subsidised housing paid for with tax-payer subsided loans. If I wanted to live in France I would.
    </conspiracy theory>

    I'm leaving for Oz at the end of the year anyway

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  • expat
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    Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...et-886142.html


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    Alistair Darling is drawing up a series of radical proposals to revive Britain's beleaguered housing market as new figures show soaring numbers of homes being repossessed.


    Among the measures being considered by the Chancellor are:

    *A plan to reintroduce income support for mortgage interest payments for homeowners who lose their jobs.

    *Suspending stamp duty so buyers only pay the tax after several years in their new home, or perhaps not until they sell the property.

    *Creating a new, tax-free fund to help first-time buyers raise the deposit they need to get on the housing ladder.

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    all aboard, the gravy train is running again


    Milan.
    Oh FFS I despair! If you do nothing about the supply of houses, but just give some people some money to help them to buy, you are just:
    1. pushing up the price and therefore giving the money straight to the sellers.
    2. helping some people on to the housing ladder at the direct cost of pushing some others off it.

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  • chef
    replied
    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    The easiest way to solve it is to create a time machine then stop the bubble from happening.
    that explains threaded's whereabouts.. oh hold on that doesn't work does it as surely he'd come back to the point when he left... maybe its broken

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  • lilelvis2000
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    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    WTF? This is really crazy.
    The rest of the entire World even socialist Europe wouldn't do that, they would, and do make interest payments tax deductable.
    And then the government giving people money to buy property they can't afford? Is this for real? They are truly insane.
    This government has no vision...they can't see past the end of their nose.
    I'd recommend sending a letter (or starting a petition) but you'll end up with the usual "economy growing, Government looking at various proposals" blather.

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  • milanbenes
    replied
    lads you're missing the bigger picture,

    such systems are going to create a lot of jobs and require massive computer systems and therefore generate a lot of employment as well as stopping house prices from falling which will give borrowers/consumers more confidence and bring the economy back into growth

    therefore, this proposal is good

    Milan.

    Leave a comment:


  • ace00
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    Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
    [url]
    Among the measures being considered by the Chancellor are:

    *A plan to reintroduce income support for mortgage interest payments for homeowners who lose their jobs.

    *Creating a new, tax-free fund to help first-time buyers raise the deposit they need to get on the housing ladder.

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    all aboard, the gravy train is running again

    Milan.

    WTF? This is really crazy.
    The rest of the entire World even socialist Europe wouldn't do that, they would, and do make interest payments tax deductable.
    And then the government giving people money to buy property they can't afford? Is this for real? They are truly insane.

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  • lilelvis2000
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    Vote grabbing if you ask me. Perhaps he should also draw up proposals for those of us who have lost money on the markets in our "pensions".

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...et-886142.html


    ------------------
    Alistair Darling is drawing up a series of radical proposals to revive Britain's beleaguered housing market as new figures show soaring numbers of homes being repossessed.


    Among the measures being considered by the Chancellor are:

    *A plan to reintroduce income support for mortgage interest payments for homeowners who lose their jobs.

    *Suspending stamp duty so buyers only pay the tax after several years in their new home, or perhaps not until they sell the property.

    *Creating a new, tax-free fund to help first-time buyers raise the deposit they need to get on the housing ladder.

    ------------------------------



    all aboard, the gravy train is running again


    Milan.
    The easiest way to solve it is to create a time machine then stop the bubble from happening.

    Leave a comment:


  • DimPrawn
    replied
    Hooray for Labour, saviour of the people. Free houses for the poor and lazy.



    Now, just who is going to foot the tax bill for all these "initiatives" I wonder. Bend over......

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  • scooterscot
    replied
    It's like someone already on here said 'Trying to inflate a balloon that's already burst'

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  • milanbenes
    started a topic Uber Booooooooomed

    Uber Booooooooomed

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...et-886142.html


    ------------------
    Alistair Darling is drawing up a series of radical proposals to revive Britain's beleaguered housing market as new figures show soaring numbers of homes being repossessed.


    Among the measures being considered by the Chancellor are:

    *A plan to reintroduce income support for mortgage interest payments for homeowners who lose their jobs.

    *Suspending stamp duty so buyers only pay the tax after several years in their new home, or perhaps not until they sell the property.

    *Creating a new, tax-free fund to help first-time buyers raise the deposit they need to get on the housing ladder.

    ------------------------------



    all aboard, the gravy train is running again


    Milan.

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