Greater Fool

The idiots have done the opposite and are actually increasing taxes on workers by raising NI, total economic illiteracy. Meanwhile the early retired at 55 from the Public Sector DB pensioner types get away scot-free.

Keep up, the HPC was cancelled a long time ago.

That's ok then, a couple of billion isn't as bad as £40 billion Track n trace, just keep on increasing taxes for the private sector so the public sector can throw billions around like it's confetti. All part of the same problem. Why don't we house everyone who needs it in a hotel, it can only cost a couple of billion more.

I've no idea if the trade unions are for or against this NI increase, if it's for more NHS spending I imagine NHS unions could be for it. Edit - just doing a search Serwotka says PCS is against it and the tax increase should come from elsewhere, but can't find anything else.

Not many people want to pay more tax whoever or whatever they vote for. I don't see that Labour wouldn't be doing the same or worse screwing the workers even more to pay for "Our NHS Heroes".

It will be "cool" especially in the middle of winter. Still one can get up in the night and take a piss over the balcony.

It's amazing how many (so they say) millionaires there are lurking on a forum that was originally about being priced out of the housing market and a price crash.

Don't get me started on pensions, HPI is my pension now tho init.

It is a blow, I will be personally out of pocket by a substantial sum, money that I should be paying extra every year into my pittance of a pension pot.

Fantasy stuff.

Haven't they already spent the earmarked (for social care) NI increase 5 times over to give some more pay rises to our NHS heroes, or some other emotive claptrap?

She thinks she has problems, do people not understand how difficult it is to buy another BTL in todays competitive market?

Looking on Rightmove this is obvious, so move along nothing to see here. But there is hardly anything for sale so HPI forever, keep on trucking.

So the value of US Ponzi stocks could crash, don't worry, house prices in the UK will still be insane, there is virtually nothing for sale you see. What is worrying is UK pension funds are heavily invested in S&P trackers nowadays, their own stupid fault chasing the easy money, what's wrong with good old UK companies?

Young, and not so young people can now look forward to being "Trailer Trash", not the future we ordered. Still probably better than ending up living in a £150 a week HMO dosshouse.

Has the journalist who wrote this ever stepped foot outside of London?

The white Evoque on PCP wannabees would lap it up.

His "staff" are all self-employed. Looks like a new reality TV show, featuring a cast of Love Island/TOWIE lip filler Botox wannabes, maybe that's the plan, to get on TV.

USA style Trailer Parks, it's the future, but without the hot weather in the southern states.

It's more likely that the modern "working classes" would set your Tesla on fire rather than doff their caps if we went back to 1930s depression era mass poverty.

QE is not money printing. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/forget-money-the-bank-of-england-is-printing-a-book-cdbfx9x57 The Bank of England is entering a new market with Can’t We Just Print More Money? a “pop-economics” book illustrated with flying pigs that was devised by its governor, Andrew Bailey. He said that the Bank had decided to produce the educational book because economists and their subject were not well understood. Subtitled “A crash course in economics in 10 bamboozling questions”, the book aims to make the subject more accessible, with chapters taking in the accident-prone nuclear power station in The Simpsons and gold lenders in Babylon 4,000 years ago. There is also a chapter entitled “What became of the 10p Freddo?” relating to the frog-shaped Cadbury chocolate bar that cost 10p in 2002 but is now 25p or 30p

Looks like the Hoff had to lay down backwards to fit into the thing. Let's see how Tesla owners like the cost of replacing their batteries when they get 10 years+ old: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10339169/Owner-blows-Tesla-protest-17-000-cost-replacing-battery-Finland.html

Just like the C19 response the BOE will QE the bailouts, what's not to like?

I don't know what other directions there are, if social housing isn't being built on a vast scale where are people gong to live "for free" except for very cheap accommodation? This is even before the climate change "refugees" start turning up.

Not really, as the housing crisis in the UK deepens as time goes on the only option is for US style trailer parks to provide the housing of the last resort. I don't understand why more people aren't talking about this, millions of council houses magically springing up from the earth isn't going to happen.