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Not if it cost me £500K

Yes, A £200k max Flat mortgage and a 5 year old ford fiesta kind of income.

Like NHS for eg.

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)

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.

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.

However this is just another South American quasi dictator like Bolsonaro was. Guaranteed collapse of the economy (even worse that it is) with this plonker in power. Perhaps he believes in Trusenomics.

There are a lot of depends when it comes to inflation. However it is well known that the inflation figures for the very well off are somewhat less than the lowest paid. Apart from that I have found many things I am interested in being something like 40% higher over the last 2 years. Fender and other US made guitars about 35% higher . Decent bikes and/or quality electric bikes are equally higher. Long haul airfares are also about 35% higher (as I found out when trying to get back to see family in Australia) (Chinese airlines don't count, as you will know if you have flown them and especially with a 15 hour stopover stuck in one of their airports with nothing to eat) I can imagine airfares coming back down with a bit of competition but not well made consumer goods. Profiteering is the real cause and motivation for this price gouging, not supply/demand/wages. Oh and another one. A pub we used to think expensive is now £8 a pint after the other pubs closed down permanently re covid etc. And their snack Sausage in a roll with garnish £10. Even worse, they have changed their menus, instead of £10 it is now just written 10 or perhaps 1.5 (for a bread roll) Nothing could be more pretentious. So they know where they can stick that.

You will get belly ache whatever you pay for that stuff. However I agree. No eat out/take away food is worth the money now. Thats half a weeks food money for the average person.

Late replying. Re these two women. One has been trying to sell for £50k more than she paid in about 2007 (I think). Her first potential buyer gave up when he/she realised how much the service charges are. It is now back on the market for the same price as she paid maybe 17 years ago. So all in a massive loss, much of which can be attributed to the management company/freeholder rip off costs. So after all that time she will have lost at least £50k for nothing, plus another £2.5kpa for service fees and whatever interest paid to the bank. I suspect on about a £200k loan. As for ownership of freeholds, yes many are held offshore and many in tax havens. Many of the management companies are also owned by tax haven entities and there antics are not covered by consumer law, but property law which is arcane to the point of being medieval. There is quite a large ongoing campaign National Leasehold Campaign ( NLC ) https://www.nationalleaseholdcampaign.org/ which has a large and growing following (and a face book page) which points out many of these issues and in particular to government at every possible level

That psychopathic stare of his will put them off for life. Only Charles Manson bettered Hunt.

My post just got hijacked cause I called Penny the word beginning with T and ending in t (a word for lady knob) and her ridiculous speech at tory conclave this year. Sunnak getting Cameon to do a dodgy deal with India to get his wife's Infosys family an open door to UK contracts.

Yes indeed. We, ie my good woman has two female friends that 'bought' their leasehold flats, both with lifts (2 floors only) and since buying have each handed out somewhere between £40k and £60k each in extra expenses on top of the £2- £3kpa service fee. Both have been ripped off for new roofs (one on a 15 year old building) both have had major lift work done. Both have had to pay circa £10k each towards new security entrances. Hallways carpeted every couple of years at eyewatering costs for cheap carpet. Owning the freeholds to these places in conjunction with mafia like managing agents is now considered to be an 'asset' class in its own right that can be gamed beyond their wildest dreams some years ago. Any leasehold reform has been little more than pissing around the edges. eg can renew the lease on your flat to be 900 years with zero ground rent, good, however the freeholder can charge exactly what they like for the service charge and there is little you can do about it. Another acquaintance, an older woman got her block within a complex to go right-to-manage, took 2 years and lots of money to do it, after already taking 2 years to get all the leaseholders interested enough (which happened all of a sudden when service fees doubled overnight)

He is of course economically illiterate. Just look at his advice to Truss. Never mind his personal background with smacking prostitutes after smoking crack.

Protect the guilty money launderers?

Boomers do not by any measure dominate the voting demographic and to top it off a large and increasing minority (nearly 45%) do not vote tory, ever. And those that do vote tory (god hate them) are more than counterbalanced by younger people who cant be arsed voting. ie non voters have effectively voted tory governments in over and over. https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-kingdom/2023/

Which in fact would be true in every possible way. Never, at least since WW2 have we had a full 13 years of regression and zero of social or economic progress. I cant imagine how difficult it is going to be to undo all the tory misery and mayhem the Tories have gifted us, and to top it off with the turd on the cake, Brexit.

Lets hope it fks him over.

Nor have I ever been gifted what I hoped to be voting for, and I bet I am much older than you. I go all the way back to not voting for Thatcher. Nowhere near enough younger people vote, which usually means their non vote is a defacto vote for the tories in most constituencies.

Those poor excuses for human beings (I would rather use the c word) spend their whole lives being angry.

Thatcher knew everything about anything, according to Tory folklore. She knew nothing about economics either, just tory dogma.

Easy. No competition, high demand, deliberate supply restrictions, land banking for profit not primarily for building on. Minimal to no inspections. All stuff that could be regulated but never will be. All this comes under the general heading of Corrupt crony capitalism, which Tories in particular confuse with competitive market forces.

Super yachts and Prime London property paid for via complex networks of offshore companies. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/article/superyacht-monaco-yacht-show-2022/index.html Many more articles on this subject.

It is. Especially when they do nothing for it.