HPC001
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Sorry to be obtuse but what is NMW??
National minimum wage, which is currently £10,500 pa assuming a 37.5 hour week, or approximately £11,100 assuming a 40 hour week.
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They'll never abolish it, but it's high time limits were drastically cut.
I live in a relatively expensive area (Kingston on Th) , but this morning I found, among others, a large, 5 bed, 3 bath detached house in a sought-after road, up for rent for £3K per calendar month.
The thing is, the landlords that will take DSS (not all by any means) know that they're in the minority and if they've got a larger property to make money out of, know that they can screw ridiculous amounts out of councils. And until councils crack right down, they'll go on rubbing their hands.
For what they're shelling out in rent for some of these properties, councils could easily buy back some of the houses that were flogged off years ago. A good many have been extended and would be big enough for larger families. But no, it seems to be policy to keep on pouring taxpayers' dosh into the pockets of LLs.
Nothing to do with VI interests at work, I'm sure, hollow laugh.
I saw quite a few homeless folk in town when I was volunteering with KCAH...
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For a start I can't sign a contract longer than 12 months if I wanted to, because it would be deemed illegal. Or less than 6 months.
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I do at every given opportunity. But taking more away from those at the bottom will just result in higher crime levels. For every penny saved, twice that will be spent on policing and even more useless antisocial laws will be written.
Really? I'm resorting to theft now? I might have to flog my PC, but there are a lot of things I can do before resorting to stealing. You'd have to be pretty dim to steal the minute the government cut you off. Besides, that's assuming nobody would step in to fill the void with voluntary charity (of course, the intended recepients have to connect with them first).
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Anyone else noticed that although Housing Benefit has been capped, the limit is still over £4K a month?
Yvette Cooper says, ''But it isn't fair for the taxpayer to fund a very small minority of people to live in expensive houses which hard-working families could never afford.'
What sort of ordinary family does she imagine can afford anything like £48K a year in rent??
It'll be so those 12-person families can afford to rent an 8-bedroom mansion.
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Agreed.
Right now our tax system is generally (intended to be (somewhat)) redistributive, and it would indeed need a huge change to shift that. That's all I meant, really, in my first post.
I might think differently were I entitled to the more generous payments for individuals aged 25+ (tax credit, double the housing benefit, 30% increase in basic dole). I do wonder if the government is deliberating shafting the youth to prevent them becoming truly independent...
Of course, receiving those makes a minimum wage job worth similar or less, with the added 40 hours graft each week - so I can see why an increasing number are not bothering.
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Quite
You're of course entitled to your view; the problem comes when someone tries to insist that it's the only valid view there is. Right now our society doesn't work that way; you may wish it did, and if you can convince most other people then perhaps it might change to being that way. But right now that's not how it is.
Well it would require a shift in mindset, which isn't going to happen overnight. There's this hilarious misconception that because a minority of gigantic families get a large payout from the system, the rest of us are magically well off enough on the dole to buy Sky TV, two cars and other crap. I'd rather not have that anyway, I'd rather earn a living with my own effort than be silver spooned. Doing something productive rather than chasing agencies all day is preferable to me personally...
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Here's a crazy idea, why not create worthwhile jobs which pay enough to afford a decent standard of living, a modest home for you and your family and most importantly, some self respect. Then the overwhelming majority of people might respect the system enough to contribute to it.
Then tell the government to get the **** out of our way so we can do it. The more intervention, the more the gap between rich and poor expands.
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You seem to understand the mathemetics but not the philosophy.
Of wealth redistribution? Maybe we think that's something for people to do voluntarily, not governments to force. Genuine charity is sparse precisely because of government intervention (which doesn't actually benefit hardworking people most of the time). We don't have a free market if there is price fixing, unequal rules (some chains can bypass rules that would otherwise apply to them, aka collusion) and so on.
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Actually a lot of that money is going back to the banks (BTL mortgages), unless you think the landlords make more than 50% profit? I doubt mine is (maybe 5%, but then he's an altruistic bloke who's a rare type these days).
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Cheaper than London though.
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£100 a week.
Gees. I remember when it was just over £50 a week in a brand-new purpose-built block 10 years ago - own shower room, internet, TV - the lot.
Just look at what a trippling in consumer credit has done.
Stupid f*cking idiots.
Unfortunately a roof over your head is necessary and not something a lot of us have a choice on. I pay £120pw for a self-contained flat, by the way.
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Except Romania has sod all welfare to speak of...so it isn't like I could go there and scam them.
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My LL would probably be screwed without foreign students paid for via the bank of Mum and Dad...
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wages are too high
minimum wage laws, benefits, and unions force up the price of labour but they force it above the free market rate and unemployment results
Fair enough, but I'm also looking at skilled jobs' rates dropping towards these levels, when they were never that low to start with...
While a job at £3.00 an hour is better than nothing, I can't see myself paying the rent with it.
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no we dont
we have price fixing yet again
Explain... because I'm often led to believe I'm a spare wheel, not even good enough for cleaning jobs, nevermind getting back into the technology sector. What else is it then, if not a surplus of labour?
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Businesses can collude to create a de facto cartel surrounding remuneration for many types of job, but the collusion of workers to fight for their best interests is condemned.
It's the strikes themselves that don't garner much support, and in BA's case seems be to losing them customers. As for the rail workers, as I understand it, the NR staff are not willing to accept new T&Cs, I don't have enough detail to comment further.
Just FYI, the BA employees I personally know aren't exactly struggling on their renumeration packages.. free flights alone save them a fair bit.
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I thought it was the US leading in that sector? Although to be fair, H&K weapons are quite common worldwide...
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£50 rise for me, still atleast I know where it is going
The halfwits have bought back the Imax on the seafront at a huge loss, good call! Shame the council team didn't travel 100 yards further and walk off the end of Bournemouth Pier
Just out of interest, does anyone know if it possible to propose privately taking on the council duties in the form of a ltd company, one fee, no pensions/ extras etc?
Well they already outsource their cleaning (Rentokil), HR (various agencies, even Reed and Manpower advertise council jobs), waste disposal (Veolia)...you name it.
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I don't have more detailed breakdowns, but the council tells me:
London Borough of Hillingdon = £29.2 million (that's a lot for circa 200,000 people)
London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority = £12.8 million (er, where the **** is the nearest fire station again?)
Metropolitan Police = £298.6 million (no doubt a lot of this is on anti-terror stuff)
I'm told those cost the average band D dwelling £409 a year. So why is it £1100 for Band A again?
Something to do with all the exempt folk I suppose...
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£1400 for dim streetlight, a fornightly rubbish collection, a police force who only turn up if they can fine someone some money and an education system that churns out morons.
Happy days!
Still, at least all those nice Council employees will retire on a nice pension
£1100 here (for a small flat), fortunately I'm exempt
they claim to have had it frozen for 3 years, but what that really means is they put it up with inflation and make up the rest on parking permits etc.Lets see, weekly bin collection, some dim streetlights and a non-existant police force... yeah, sounds about right. Not much different from yours.
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Given that scenario, I'd be willing to go part-time. Hell, I'd need to anyway to fit around current commitments.
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Here's hoping your doctor feels the same way
Was that sarcasm? As it happens I don't have one. Apart from the odd cold, I haven't been ill in 7 years...
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I don't know if anybody else has suggested this yet but how about councilling? The qualifications are not that onerous to do the basic stuff and many can be studied part-time at university. I think it's possible to gradually build up your qualifications and it has scope for the all important cash in hand, self employed route. Plus I guess you could do it part-time while you're starting out.
You mean counselling? I'd feel guilty charging someone that wants to share personal issues with me to be honest...
Historical Destruction Of Uk Renters Rights & Security
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Well I say illegal, the assured shorthold tenancy would not be enforcable. Sorry if I was being unclear there.
Edit: You might want to check the 1996 Housing Act