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8 hours ago, MonsieurCopperCrutch said:
If you insist on purchasing a clown car then don't be surprised to discover that it drives like a clown car.
It did not drive like a clown car it had a system added to it that I did not know about.
If your going to have a dig do better than that even a clown would be ashamed to come out with the drivel you have posted.
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That does not fit with your statement the other night telling us Immigration has enabled all of London to live like Kings. The whole country has had a far amount of immigration why are we not all getting richer instead of poorer?
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45 minutes ago, Confusion of VIs said:
Who are them?
Don't you know.
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2 minutes ago, MARTINX9 said:
If they were all genuine businesses operating legally and declaring all income why don't they accept debit and credit card payments like other shops but only cash? If a retail operation on the high street only offers a cash payment arrangement in 2023 - its pretty much a giveaway as a likely money laundering front or at best a business not fully declaring all income for tax/VAT purposes etc or paying employer taxes - every small newsagent etc offers a card payment option but none of them?! Not always - but often. And they have spiralled in number in recent years all over the place - people still got haircuts 20 years ago
Yes legitimate businesses prefer card payments over cash. I was in a pub this weekend and went to pay with cash the guy behind the bar was a bit put out when he placed the terminal for payment in front of me and I gave him a £20 note , he was expecting me to swipe my card like most people in there were doing. Places only accepting cash are doing it for dodgy reasons.
5 minutes ago, MARTINX9 said:Plenty of people it seems willing to help fund organised crime, people trafficking and the drug trade - to get a cheaper short back and sides or their nails painted. But hey - as long as it fills a shop on the high street why should you care about the ultimate victims.
The poster you answered does not care about the ultimate victims he would rather virtual signal and always takes the side of immigrants over the Brits, it is clear from reading his posts.
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1 minute ago, Confusion of VIs said:
The had the power to restrict immigration while in the EU but chose not to enforce any of the rules allowed under FoM.
Yes the big mistake they could have done this but did not so it back fired on them. They thought they could just blame the nasty EU for everything and the UK would suck it up.
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Just now, dugsbody said:
I thought you were a Conservative Party voter?
You know a lot less than you give yourself credit for.
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Are people just waking up to how much of a w***** he is I knew all along just like the rest of the Labour Party.
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35 minutes ago, TenYearToGetMyMoneyBack said:
Personally the thing I would like to see the back of is the Hand Car Wash. From my memory they didn't exist in the 20th century except in American Movies. Then they seemed to spring up, full of foreign looking guys, in every closed down petrol station in the country. I have never used one out of principal.
I have used them they did a very good wash for £10 when I first used one that was 4 years ago. The last time I went it was £25.
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2 minutes ago, MARTINX9 said:
Her UK state pension stopped immediately and as she was paid weekly and it had just been paid the DWP asked for £120 back.
This happened with my Dads state pension and all of his private pensions your benefits die with you on the day you die. We did however then get Tax Rebates on the Tax that was taken from the money that was then paid back.
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28 minutes ago, Roman Roady said:
So how do they propose to wean the UK off of its addiction to imported Labour? Who is going to fill the void...are they going to mobilize the army of working age UK citizens who are sat at home on benefits?
Not paying people a full time salary for doing a part time job via Tax Credits would help. At present we have huge amounts of people job sharing. If one person did the job full time the second one would be freed up to fill a vacancy elsewhere. I wonder how many recent immigrants are only working part time? We never get the number on that one.
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3 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:
Other than the para of your first post that I responded to and that clearly triggered you so comprehensively,
LOL You never trigged me. I just answered you.
4 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:I've not even bothered reading your subsequent posts other than a quick skim...
Another LOL. You only skimmed them but spend all this time answering them. Now that is comical.
5 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:n other areas of life that might be considered a little rude, but this is an internet forum afterall, where no one but ourselves cares about what we post, no one has any obligation to even read what we may post, and certainly no one is under any obligation to respond to what we write.
Why do you tell me what everyone already knows?
5 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:Just accept it and move on.
Take your own advice you keep coming back.
6 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:
Its an old picture m8 very boring now.
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12 minutes ago, scottbeard said:
Well we shouldn't have to. But sadly we live in the real world, amd that world seems to be bad and getting worse so worth planning for that.
Just roll over and take it you mean. Pay more tax and then pay again for what your tax was already meant to pay for.
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9 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:
@Insane, you don't appear to like anyone pushing back against your view that the world now offers less opportunity. It's comical.
Nope flip that around you don't like anyone not agreeing with you. Take a look on this site it is all there for you , you only need to read. A whole host of people on here would tell you that the life chances for the average/even quite above average person in the UK have gone backwards to what they were a few decades back. Now go and read. Comical lol your ignorant.
11 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:This forum has various aspects to it, but a sizeable one - the dominant one even - is to provide an environment for general moaning and hand-wringing about how tough everything is today, while it was all so much better in the past. Classic loser-speak.
No.
Classic observation. It now takes 2 full time wages to buy the average house in many parts of the country.
You mix up Reality and call it Loser-Speak.
13 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:Things continually change and those who prosper commonly do so because they adapt to the world as they find it, rather than waste their energy railing against it because it's not how they would like it to be.
Or think they are clever like yourself when they are not really are you.
14 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:As a result, for every example you could cite of someone you know not liking the way things are, I could cite examples of others who've prospered.
Arr but when I site an example it is classic loser -speak. Why do you think you are always right.
15 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:Get over it.
LOL. I have ruffled your feathers. I just made a statement which you don't agree with but you won't let the fact drop that I don't agree with your different take on things.
By the way when are you going to answer my question ? I have asked twice now but still no answer.
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1 hour ago, Beef Shandy said:
If your gist is that you and these other people you've surveyed wouldn't want to be young today, then my main response to that is that it says as much about you/them as it does about the world, which as I've stated, is in my view one of unprecedented opportunity for the entrepreneurial vs previous times.
Really.
Funny isn't it there are a huge amount of people on this Forum especially the young who would say those born in the 50's , 60's and 70's had far more life chances than those born later. We are of course talking about average people not go getters but then a huge majority of the World are average and not go getters.
1 hour ago, Beef Shandy said:Different views make a market, and mine is obviously a more optimistic take than yours and the people you're referring to!
So what why should everyone share your view?
You have still not answered my question which was > What do you mean by expressing innovation be honest it is just a sound bit.
1 hour ago, Beef Shandy said:Simply being born in the UK gives people a massive life advantage compared to most of the planet's population. It's up to them whether they seek to take full advantage of that good fortune or sit around moaning about a world that changes.
Why are you now comparing the UK with the rest of the World we were comparing the UK with the UK decades ago? Deflection.
Making a statement saying I would like to be young again but not young now is not sitting around moaning about a world that changes it is just an observation.
Would you say a Top London Consultant who worked with my relative and could only purchase an ex council flat, when if 25 years older would have purchased a decent house in a better area is someone sitting around moaning or someone even though they are highly educated and skilled has had less life chances than their predecessors ?
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16 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:
Where did I say you said it had ever been easy to be entrepreneurial? Not a very productive line of debate...
1 hour ago, Beef Shandy said:As to your last point, my view is that it's never been easier to be rewarded for being entrepreneurial,
17 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:You have your own reasons for writing that. I responded by pointing out that IMO it's perhaps never been easier to be well rewarded for expressing innovation and entrepreneurship. I believe there's never been a better time to be young with ideas you wish to bring to the world.
For the few not the masses. Don't tell me everyone can be Elon Musk.
They cannot recruit Doctors in London as it is so expensive to live.
In your opinion is that it has never been easier to be well rewarded for expressing innovation (what do you actually mean by expressing innovation?) TBH it sounds like one of those ******** bingo sound bites that Corporations love to spew out.
21 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:But most people aren't like that, you might say. Well, they're not going to be as relatively well rewarded as they might've been had they lived in a prior generation. It's up to them whether or how they respond to that reality.
Hence coming from an average background, with an average education and skill set along with most people I know I would not like to be young today. Is that OK with you?
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2 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:
I'd argue that the council flat option was perhaps also unsustainable if wanting an OK life. I grew up on a council estate, which was "nice" when brand new, but slowly turned into an absolute dump as no one took responsibility for their surroundings - council's job, innit? - and the lowlifery came to the fore. There was no longer-term good life to be had there IMO, but it's less clear cut than the first point..
There were and are some very good council estates. The place you lived in turned into a dump due to councils not making people responsible for their surroundings. There lies the problem. The low life you speak about have not disappeared you will now find many of them in the social element of private new build estates.
The problem of them not taking responsibility for their surroundings is the same today as it was back then hence why private buyers are very concerned when buying a new build as to where the social housing is placed. I know a few people who sell new build and the first question they get asked by buyers is where is the social housing? Doing away with council housing has not eliminated the problem of anti social behaviour by a certain element of people.
The problem for the average person doing an average paid job is the fact that they won't be considered for social housing. I know someone who went for council help a while back and were told by the person they saw you need to prove to me that you are totally incapable of providing your own housing before we can look at you, don't tell us you are capable. There lies the rub Mr/Mrs low paid average don't stand a chance.
9 minutes ago, Beef Shandy said:As to your last point, my view is that it's never been easier to be rewarded for being entrepreneurial, nor has there been a better time to be rewarded for possessing in-demand skills. The advance and application of technology means the economic system becomes progressively more efficient* at sorting the wheat from the chaff, ie. identifying what/who adds more value and directing greater rewards in that direction, with lesser rewards directed toward what/who provides less value.
Where did I say it had ever been easy to be entrepreneurial?
You can talk all you like about sorting the wheat from the chaff , upskilling adding value ect but there is still a huge demand for average people doing average jobs if everyone is highly skilled who is going to do the more mundane jobs that are just as essential for society and the economy? If everyone is highly educated the system you speak about won't just create more high skilled high paid jobs.
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36 minutes ago, Dyson Fury said:
Evidently these people have never heard of planning permission, building regulations or fire safety. They are voluntarily subjecting themselves to living conditions that would be illegal for a landlord to impose on tenants.
The suburbs of London (and I would expect in other places as well) are full of gardens with dwellings built in them. It seems the authorities are turning a blind eye. They must be housing a huge amount of people who would otherwise be putting more demand on legal housing and making the housing shortage even worse.
There is a house on a corner near me with a road running along the side so a garage can be built at the bottom of the garden with road access. I watched them build a place with a basement ,a garage door has been fitted to the road facing wall to make it look like a garage when in fact it is a two level dwelling.
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22 minutes ago, Johnno1167 said:
Are you Trump I’m disguise ?
Pathetic a bit like your Daily Mail statement earlier. Both are quite worn out now tbh.
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21 minutes ago, shlomo said:
What made you so angry and bitter?
Your assumptions are annoying. I am not angry and bitter but you really do come out with some crap to get a reaction don't you. You really must be bored.
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21 minutes ago, shlomo said:
The reason your children have no future is because you did not educate them, education is the only way up
What you know about my children would fit on a postage stamp with space spare.
They are FK all to do with you but FYI they have both done OK.
You really do come out with some shit don't you.
23 minutes ago, shlomo said:Stop blaming inflation
Where did I blame inflation ? More dumb musings from you.
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5 minutes ago, Johnno1167 said:
I’m knocking sound bites and rhetoric . Always open to consider concrete policies backed by methodology and consideration . The net zero is popularism : the MAGA playbook , just swap G for B.
As for what I want to see ? Someone to put a clear stake in the ground that is based on reason / economic needs . That number might be positive / zero / negative . I don’t know that number as I’m not in government / ONS / an actuary / or basically not party to the correct decision making numbers . One argument is we have a very rapidly aging population so long term residential immigration is important for the economic health / wealth creation because birth rate is also dropping. But the wrong type of immigration is also destructive . That said, I refuse to give in to popularism . And I want a party that is accountable to deliver to that number.
You started talking about murder and drink driving , completely tangential issues . That was the incoherence I was highlighting .No as I have already said you are incoherent.
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11 minutes ago, shlomo said:
You mean how high our standard of living is because London is one of the financial centers of the world due to immigration, and even a factory worker can live like a king
LOL.
The whole of London lives like Kings! What planet are you on?
Do you mean the empty Doctors posts due to people refusing to move to London as the cost of housing is too high? Are they living like kings due to immigration?
The top consultant who worked with my relative and bought an ex council flat he is living like a king due to immigration?
I worked in a factory in the 80's and bought a new build flat I was earing £13,000 and it cost £34,500 I did not live like a king but compared to a factory worker today I did. That flat would now be about £350,000 do you think a factory worker earns £130,000 in London and lives like a king?
An immigrant comes here and takes home £1,500 a month working long hours he either pays £1,000 a month for a decent room or lives in a house designed for 4 that now houses 10 , is he living like a kind due to immigration. LOL.
Many immigrants have come to London and gone back home not due to Brexit but due to the high costs and low wages not making it worthwhile any more were they living like Kings? Due to immigration ? Immigration putting a high cost on housing is now a huge problem in London as not only do they not live like Kings they cannot make it work.
You do come out with some funny posts sometimes.
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2 minutes ago, shlomo said:
what does "have had" mean?
What
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1 minute ago, shlomo said:
are your children as obsessed with immigration, mine are not
Funny you should ask that they have recently woken up to how much we have had. It did not really bother them then recently a few occurrences happened and they realised how much we have had.
‘I live off £30 a month’: Nearly 4 million people in UK experienced ‘destitution’ last year
in House prices and the economy
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But you told us we all live like kings due to immigration.