svag

the system, not the people

You will find that for some on this forum the fact that their great granny ate haggis means they are part scotch and therefore slagging us off is perfectly acceptable.

You're right there vote tory...or labour...

wait a minute!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4238744.stm

The Bank of England's latest figures on housing equity withdrawal show that a further £13.2bn was taken out by homeowners in the first three months of this year. That boosted their take-home incomes by 6.1% http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6268272.stm

Links please GL

Boo Hoo

not even funny

Yes vote tory.. In 1995-6, the Scottish NHS received 25% more funding per capita than the English NHS, and Wales and Northern Ireland received 18% and 5% more, respectively http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m099...318/ai_61483002 In 2007-08 Total Health per capita in Scotland will be £2,019. This compares to £974 in 1999-00, and £1,867 in 2006-07. In England the comparable figure for next year is £1,839 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2007/01/31162801

"Councils have been urged to learn lessons from the fallout of the £304,000 payoff deal offered to a top executive in East Lothian. The local authority came under fire for the decision to award chief executive John Lindsay the money following a restructuring of the council. Mr Lindsay, 60, was offered a one-off redundancy payment of £149,000 just months before he was due to retire. He was also to get a retirement sum of £155,000 and £55,000 a year pension." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinbu...ast/6252848.stm :angry:

"The PLAW letter, entitled Let It Be Known, reads: ”The Popular Liberation Army of Westmorland hereby pledges that we will one day see an end to the occupation of Westmorland by newcomers, holiday home owners and the encroaching leech-like scum of that ilk." "The Popular Liberation Army of Westmorland wholeheartedly supports the Cornwall National Liberation Army, the Cornish Liberation Army and the Sons of Glyndwyr and the Sons of Dunmail and any other groups that pledge to get rid of our towns and villages of holiday home owners. "We are at present 25 people born and bred in Westmorland and who are unable to buy property in the land of our birth”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...22/nlake122.xml

"The number of properties being sold in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has reached its highest level since the property boom of the late 1980s." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6227666.stm

I may be missing the point but how many ftb's would buy a home more than 125m2? (that is quite large)

http://www.ros.gov.uk/aboutus/pressreleases.html

"A housing campaign group has been building a temporary house outside the Scottish Parliament to highlight the need for more houses for rent." "Shelter is staging the demonstration in Edinburgh in support of its plea for 30,000 affordable homes for rent in Scotland over three years." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinbu...ast/6221736.stm Also, hopefully the SNP will change their mind about £2000 grants for first time buyers "A pledge by the SNP to provide £2000 grants for first-time home buyers has been deemed ineffective in the country where it was pioneered. The study from Australia, where the scheme was cited as a model for the SNP's manifesto, says it has done little there to make the housing market fairer or help the less well off." http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/d...1483312.0.0.php

"TENANTS in South Cambridgeshire may face cuts to home repairs and services unless action is taken. Cash is running out for council housing in the district because the Government takes 50p from every £1 the council gets in rent and 75 per cent of the proceeds from sales." http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/regio...702ed211898.lpf

"Last week, new figures showed just 80 affordable homes had been built in Edinburgh in the past six years despite agreements between developers and the council which promised more than 4000." http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=966642007

In 1997, Peter Mandelson said in a speech to the Fabian Society: "I say to the doubters, judge us after 10 years in office. For one of the fruits of that success will be that Britain has become a more equal society. However, we will have achieved that result by many different routes, not just the redistribution of cash from rich to poor, which others choose as their own limited version of egalitarianism ..." http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialexclus...2093173,00.html

But David Cameron has benefited from shared ownership "Sir Reginald Sheffield is an old-school Tory with a vast estate and a habit of falling out with his tenants - which could become a little embarrassing for the man who married his daughter" "His relationship with the Cameron dynasty actually pre-dates Samantha's relationship, since he shared ownership of a horse with the Tory leader's father, Ian, in the 1980s. When Cameron was "courting" his future wife, they often stayed at Thealby, in separate rooms." http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_brit...icle2614593.ece

It's feck all to do with money!! "Racist thugs turned on a Scottish children's pipe band at a North fair in an attack believed to have been sparked by simmering cross- border resentment. Police had to move in and protect the victims, aged as young as nine, when they were verbally abused and had water bombs thrown at them." "As well as hurling abuse and water bombs, the yobs sang anti-Scottish songs as they walked menacingly alongside the terrified youngsters who only finished their march after police were called in to protect them." http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundays...-name_page.html

"He also promised young people more help to get on to the property ladder "through a massive extension of shared ownership and the right-to-buy"." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...ncameron118.xml :angry:

Welcome Totally agree, but for some strange reason the bulls don't seem to understand this.

I don't know what people are moaning about "Parents of university students would do well to invest in a property for their child to live in while studying, according to specialist buy to let broker Landlord Mortgages. The research shows that parents who choose to buy could make profit of almost £32,000 over the three-year term of their child's degree." http://www.yourmortgage.co.uk/showPage.html?page=3624615