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steve99

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  1. However, as it stands our state pension is one of the lowest in the western world. I have a min wage friend in Austria who's state pension is linked to his wages (as well as much lower living costs, eg his rent including energy and heating, council tax etc is less than we pay for ongoing costs in an outrightly owned but modest, cheap house in the midlands never mind his transport costs of 30Euros a month for the whole city). His pension will be much higher than ours than ours. I agree in principal but we need to also get rid of employer pensions at the same time. Min pension in that case needs to be far higher.
  2. There was an inflation thing in on of the rags a couple of years ago which proved that beer in pubs was 1/3 the price it is today in real terms. But mind you it has gone up exponentially since the mid 2000s and in particular this last 2 years. A nice pub, with a nice beer garden not too far from us used to be expensive at £5 per pint and £4 for a sausage in a roll, is now £8 a pint and £10 for same sausage in a roll (but now the sausage is sliced up and there is garnish on the plate) I knew we was in trouble soon is I saw the pricing structure. Instead of listing said Sos roll as £4-00 it now says 10 and other items said 15.5 (for an omelette) or 24.8 (for fish and chips) I actually banned any establishment that had that sort of pricing a few years ago.
  3. Christmas eve is was the traditional date to get rid of workers, have have been in at least 3 businesses where that happened.
  4. Absolutely true. My experience of the old British manufacturers was that they wanted to hang onto 1930s technology, 1930s 100% top down management and wanted employees to go back to doffing their caps. Modernisation was out of the question. As they were gradually failing they started initiating fights with the unions, creating problems where there were none and promoting thugs into the position of foremen and junior managers. I used to work as an industrial electronics technician at some of those places, working as a contractor from an outside company so had an unbiased view to begin with but ultimately it became obvious that industry was hell bent on destroying itself to avoid becoming German or Japanese. The pecking order was to be maintained no matter what the consequences. Eventually the unions and workers just started jacking up and making life difficult for the companies they worked for but there is no argument as to who created this situation it was the companies and then when Thatcher got involved then the entire government too. Much of that era resonates today too with the Tory driven inflation (like Heath initiated in the early 70s and then left Wilson to deal with it, and consequently get the blame), ie that inflation leading to price gouging and workers wages falling behind, leading to strikes and stubborn government etc. The last thing the Tories want is a modern progressive society and they are working very hard to achieve that.
  5. The 'Just after Christmas' sacking routing has been quite normal in my experience over the decades. Its the senior management that are having a bit of a laugh, ie just after you have run up Christmas bills and the job market is dead.
  6. Yes, lets put the tories to bed for at least a decade or more. Farage would be the turd on the Shitecake that the tories have been for the last 13 years.
  7. Before that actually. When the west, starting with Thatcher's Britain and Reagans USA decided that financial engineering was much better for us than real engineering (and everything else that we need in real life, like housing and infrastructure etc). Much of the thinking around this started in the 1950s with the right wing think tanks, which of course Thatcher and Reagan were enamoured with.
  8. It has little to do with it. The builders like it like this and the councils don't want builders to put in up to standard roads. This way the councils absolve themselves from responsibility for roads, lighting and even more so, maintaining green spaces etc, whilst garnering new council tax, at full price of course. To top it off, builders have to pay councils quite a lot of money in order to get permission to build on a site which is then loaded onto the new home prices. Much of this is supposedly for the extra infrastructure, but in reality all they do is stick up another couple of road signs and the rest of the infrastructure just suffers under pressure. (like the town I live in where not only have they been building another mega estate, they have also allowed the building of 100s of homes for the very elderly without any consideration to the extra medical services etc needed. A tory council with a Tory MP has much to do with the state of my town. They even bulldozed down the swimming pool, are about to close the remaining gym/sports centre for lack of money but a the same time have frittered the £25million leveling up fund on a handfull of pointless projects, eg a £2million It project for the local museum that nobody visits)
  9. More of a 1%'y problem. Who else would spend so much on transport.? Besides '' Ilford in east London'' tells us much of what we need to know. . I've been to a few 3rd world countries and the people who can afford newish cars are driving things like this (with all their ill gotten lucre). We never saw so many Lexus 4wds as we did in Cambodia (and that was before the Chinese gangsters moved in)
  10. You can only have corrupt central banks with a corrupt government.
  11. Quite right that lenders are getting wary of such onerous obligations attached to a property. It is the never ending gaming of housing in all its forms that has been expanding exponentially over the last 20 years. Too much money is being made, mostly on the lack of consumer rights in housing/real-estate law. As it stands such contracts for houses on private roads managed by management companies are open ended contracts. Here is the campaign site re this issue. https://www.homeownersrights.net/
  12. Yes and people (including conveyancing solicitors) are getting much wiser to the implications of leasehold servitude.
  13. Because he is not in charge of the purse strings. Tories are. Also investment in the UK is at a very low point since the Brexit vote and not going into places like Stockton and for that matter neither is EU money. The other and bigger problem for the UK is that Tories like to have large parts of the country and people in poverty, it makes them feel superior, as per their breeding and innate sociopathy. They work hard to keep it this way.
  14. Early next year if we are very lucky. If so I expect it might be on account of more skeletons dancing out of the closet to embarrass them further, perhaps even criminal charges etc. More to come from the covid enquiry etc (for which alone should morally speaking trigger an election)
  15. Perhaps when Sunnak gets his family fortune India Trade Deal done.
  16. There is a newer and quite acceptable estate near where we live. Over the decade since it started had become more refined with lots of shrubs etc and well cared for houses etc and massive park, brook and trees through the middle of it. (nothing like some of the mega estates) However the major drawback to nearly all new estates now is the fact that councils will not adopt the roads and green spaces which the builders then sell on (another housing con) to a corrupt rapacious management company who then game it for every penny. The so called freeholders of these houses are completly at the mercy of these management companies and what they choose to charge. These management companies have site managers that have their patch which might cover a dozen estates and their sole remit is to generate income by finding as many faults and issues of possible to charge the estate with, all at inflated prices with kickbacks from the contractors of course. Of course, none of this comes under consumer law so there is little the house 'owners' can do about it. The government is not interested of course as they are up to their necks in such schemes and scams. Many of these management companies operate from offshore for tax purposes of course.
  17. How silly. To run a golf course all you have to do is employ boys of 15 and get them doing every job around the course for 15 years or so, eventually one or two will become managers, others grounds keepers and so on. In fact like many industries in times gone by. My dad started off as a trainee accountant at the age of 14 (and would have become one if not for the war ending and such young employees getting tossed out to take back returning soldiers) My mother also left school at 14 to work in a cotton factory but ended up as an accounts manager for a big electrical company (long before they had degree qualified accountants just to file receipts)
  18. That's sounds dodgy. Australia got rid of most of its refineries and has to import most refined petrol from Singapore now. Of course China knows this as will Russia be keeping an eye on our supply chains.
  19. We will see. I am just going by the track record of right wing nut jobs in South America. Stay tuned and I will have an open mind until then, albeit sceptical.
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