General Election

Just finished work and can't be arsed to read the whole of this thread. So **** knows how you lot hot talking about roundabouts.

But I will say...

Come on you reeeeeeeds!!!

 

Giant, common, saxophone or clarinet reeeeeeeds?

 

I was going to slam your post for not mentioning moral hazard and pressing the reset button (we are in a depression in all but the negative growth required to confirm that) - what with the biflation that continues to infest our daily lives. Growth is only positive due to massive net migration. Per capita we are a slowly boiling frog. Debt is far too cheap and the government continue to pile it up. Eventually we will get to the point where the interest on the debt is so much no other services will be affordable. At this point we can kiss goodbye to the NHS (if it hasn't already been privatised), any welfare spending and you'll be working until 90 to get any pittance of a pension. Oh, and the currency will probably be junk by then due to over-zealous printing.

 

We could have had another election by then!

 

Of that £5bn net benefit, how much is being paid to the displaced in tax credits?

 

I know the one I used to do accountancy for buggered off on holiday using a house swap (their second home in London, not the one in their home constituency) and wrote books for 6 weeks.

 

I seem to remember reading that France has twice as many roundabouts as any other country. Perhaps he was a Francophobe?

 

Cameron is the only leader amongst them. Milliband sold out to the unions to stab his brother in the back and will sell everyone out to anyone the moment he sees a chance to profit, Cleggs a wet cloth who probably need to be told what lothes to wear and Farage will say and promise anything that he thinks will make him popular.
It's sad, but that's why the Tories will walk it, they have the only leader.

 

Hope this thread stays open.....be nice to get the `common mans` side of developments

 

Does that mean we would have to have all our coffin dodgers back from Spain etc where they go to retire in the sun & would score zero points on any system !!

 

Yes you're right to mention moral hazard. Avoiding the crash that would have happened without intervention has meant that those individuals who should have lost all most of their wealth kept it at the expense of tax payers.

However, in my opinion the real scandal is house prices. The market should have been left to crash and restore the cost of owning a home much more affordable.
Instead the Baby Boomer generation and Buy To Let landlords were indirectly bailed out and it's those under 30 that have been shafted. It's not so bad in Hull but in some places the average house price is 10 times the average salary.

I think there will be a massive correction at some point but as long as the politicians can kick that particular can down the road for someone else to deal with then it's not their problem.

Happy days eh !

 

No, because they already live there. I'm not suggesting repatriation for hard-working migrants who have settled here and consider the UK their home. I'm suggesting an immigration policy which judges people on skills and qualifications, like an employer judges potential employees in an interview. Reducing immigration is necessary to prevent overpopulation. I don't know why people think wanting an immigration policy used by Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA is somehow akin to wanting large swathes of Britain's settled migrants instantly deported. The only ones I would like to see deported are the ones who don't work and have no intention of working.

 

I think we are all Labour because we all sing the Red Flag, Hull version of course, although not that often nowadays

 

Do you mean those people who have worked and paid taxes for years in this country and who use the money from the houses they have sold here to buy property in Spain and pump money into the economy without receiving social housing, housing benefits or any of the many things we dish out?
Most of them would be less of a burden and contribute more than many a young person, having already contributed more in any case.

 

Well I am 35 but, after renting in London for the last 5+ years, house prices are the main reason I've left. Social mobility appears to be more about the year you were born in than meritocracy.

As I said, I didn't vote but, based on their housing policies, the Greens social housing building and land value tax policies go much further than any of the other parties into correcting house prices.

Just a shame that they have some, IMO, mental policies that make it impossible to vote for them.

Tories want another RTB, increasing pressure on private market rents (not to mention HTB #23 to prop up house prices rather than letting the market discover the price).

I quite liked the labour announcement on non-doms but they will just spend the shirts off our backs.

Lib-Dems cooked their goose on tuition fees.

UKIP will control immigration but are the biggest NIMBYs of the lot (so the supply side is still a massive issue)

In short, the country is a shambles and whoever gets in will find a different way to fiddle while Rome burns.

 

Surely they'd score highly as they tend to bring money in and spend it locally, rather than taking money out and sending it home and creating rather than taking up employment?

 

Are we all German then as the tune is a German one? Or trees as that is what the original is about.

 

Exactly. This was something I forgot to mention in my post. British ex-pats in Spain and France are mostly retirees who have assets and wealth from working throughout their lives and they pay their fair share of tax to the Spanish and French governments. The Spanish and French governments welcome their contributions considering Spain is having somewhat of a financial crisis and Hollande's socialist France likes spending other people's money.

 

BBC exit poll have the conservatives (316 seats) Labour (239) well ahead, even though the Lib Dems with only get 10 seats will be needed to form a government.

 

Not been on since this morning but genuinely staggered this thread is still open.