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He's joking. Take a look at some of his other postings.

I hope Lordi win:

I would always recommend renting through the ads in your local paper. Go and view a few places to get a feel for the quality and price of property available. Ask pertinent questions about heating. Read the contract carefully and question anything you don't like. A good landlord will be happy to discuss points you disagree with. Landlords will be keen to rent property to you. Couples looking for a long term lets are preferable to house sharers as they pay the bills and don't wreck the place. Things to avoid: Key meters for gas and electricity. A property that hasn't been maintained since 1975. (Draughty windows and hideous bathrooms without showers).

Maybe these people have never visited a shop? All the major supermarkets pay under £6ph, and they employ millions. I suspect the problem is that when you are suggesting a 2 bed ex-council house in stabsville is affordable for doctors and lawyers, it helps to ignore the masses for whom £20k is a good wage.

I think you should definitely take him to the small claims court. If he is seriously witholding your deposit because the grout in the bathroom is not white enough the magistrate will fall off his chair laughing.

Frankly I don't believe that there is anywhere in the UK where you can rent out a 90k house for 600pm. I currently rent a house for 550pm that would cost about 140k. 1 bed flats up the road are on the market for 100k.

I don't think James Earl Jones is available.

Maybe you should change your bank! I have never owned a home, but banks etc are falling over themselves to throw money at me. My bank keeps offering to increase my credit card limit to 25k. They were even doing that several years ago when I was earning less than that gross per year.

Or TMWRNJ. Fans of such things should remember to listen to the Now Show on Radio 4.

Battery farming is nasty, but the point here is the CPREs habit of campaigning against anything. CPRE members believe that all building work in the countryside should cease once their house has been built. A better example of their stupidity is their recent opposition to the Blunsdon bypass near Swindon. It will consist of about 1 mile of road and will run in front of a giant factory and past a dog track, before rejoining the main road near the tip. Despite this the CPRE oppose it and want a tunnel built instead. The main change countryside dwellers will see is the lack of a 5 mile queue every morning as they go to work.

The first one is just down the road from me. It is an ugly office block next to a major junction with five lanes of traffic, no wonder they used an artists impression rather than an actual photo.

I think Honda Swindon is safe for a while as they have only just finished upgrading it for the new civic. There are a lot of empty office blocks in the town centre though. Maybe they'll turn them all into 'executive apartments'.

I doubt it takes Dog long to cut and paste a list from the guardian jobs website. Do you work for the council?

As I see it, the problem is not with immigrants who settle and integrate, but with the armies of temporary workers who live in poor conditions and work for very low wages. I noticed on the news the other day that it was considered a 'good thing' that thousands of poles were willing to work for a pittance. I'm sure employers who want cheap labour thought that child and slave labour were also of benefit to society.

Interesting point. Consider what the UK and US have done over the last few years with their strong executive. Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill Restricting right to trial Abolising Habeas Corpus Shoot to kill policy ID cards Patriot act Iraq war Compared with that lot, I'm sure Italians are happy with not much getting done.

Are you aware that you will have to travel to a processing centre when you apply for a passport? There you will be fingerprinted and iris scanned like a criminal before you are given your licence to exist. I accept that a licence is required for driving, but I will not accept the requirement for my existence to be licenced by the state.

I wasn't aware that people born in the sixties had to deal with conscription. People born in the twenties had it hard, those born in the 40's and later less so. I feel very sorry for you growing up in the great 90's depression. No doubt you were working down a pit from the age of 12 and slept in a cardboard box with the other 15 members of your family.

Do you believe that the current price/earnings ratio for housing will persist? What do you think is the likely future multiple of median earnings to house prices?

I disagree. Suburbs will hold up well, at the expense of rural areas where people commute to major towns and cities. A suburb which is a ten or twenty minute bus or bike ride from a city centre will be more appealing than a flat for people who are forced to move. I live in a town centre, but would always pick a Victorian terrace in preference to an 'executive flat' which is handily located between a petrol station and major road.

Have you looked at the weights for electricity and gas? Do you know anyone who only spends 1% of their income on electricity, or whose electricity expenditure has halved in the last ten years?

Some other interesting changes from 1996-2005: Fuels and lubricants 4.0 -> 2.7 Electricity 2.2 -> 1.4 Gas 2.0 -> 1.2

Here are the weightings for 1996 and 2005. The reduction is weighting for food and fuel is particularly noticeable, as is the massive increase in weighting for 'miscellaneous goods'. 1 Food and non-alcoholic beverages 15.6 -> 10.6 2 Alcoholic beverages and tobacco 7.0 -> 4.6 3 Clothing and footwear 6.7 -> 6.3 4 Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels 13.4 -> 10.5 5 Furniture, household equipment and maintenance 9.0 -> 6.5 6 Health 0.7 -> 2.4 7 Transport 15.4 -> 14.8 8 Communication 2.1 -> 2.5 9 Recreation and culture 13.1 -> 15.1 10 Education 1.1 -> 1.7 11 Restaurants and hotels 11.1 -> 13.9 12 Miscellaneous goods and services 4.8 -> 11.1

The BP in Cirencester I drive past on the way to work has diesel at 100.9

The weightings are particularly interesting. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/econ...ET620_Baran.pdf It's interesting that the weighting for electricity and gas is now only 2.6%, down from 4.2% in 1996. Most of the reduction has gone to 'Other services', up from 0.5% to 2.4% and 'Financial services', up from 0.2% to 2.6% over the same period.

Have you looked at the figures? Jan 06: 185,404 Feb 06: 183,224 http://www.odpm.gov.uk/staging/index.asp?i...ssNoticeID=2138