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House Prices vs Salaries
iamnumerate replied to HPC Pollster's topic in House prices and the economy
I think it would be a lot of work. -
House Prices vs Salaries
iamnumerate replied to HPC Pollster's topic in House prices and the economy
I would really like to see what percentage of the average income is needed to pay a monthly mortgage and the number of months needed to save a deposit. -
Examples of big & multiple drops
iamnumerate replied to Sausage's topic in House prices and the economy
That sounds like they will be repossed in August and are hoping to be able to sell. -
I think you are projecting. When I tell you what made me vote Brexit you talk about the Tories (I decided to support Brexit under Labour so they are pretty irrelevant). I didn't support Brexit in the past - and if things had been probably wouldn't have done. If I had been given the power in 2010 to change five things about the UK - leaving the EU wouldn't have been one of them.
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With that sort of attitude, listening carefully to your opponents and trying to meet their concerns. It is a mystery that remain lost. When did I mention benefit cheats? All these people had claims that were valid under our system - the problem is that our system is far too generous with housing benefit. The funny thing is that I could have voted remain under the right circumstances.
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Labour were in power 97-2010 so why didn't they change the benefit system? Also what is the cost (apart from politically) of saying "You get benefits for six months in London after that - you get an empty house in an ex pit village."? Sounds great an empty home gets someone in it to look after it, a commuter gets a shorter commute and the tax payer saves money!
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That is not true. I voted for Brexit because a) I knew someone who got of the plane in 1999 and was given flat in an expensive area b) I wasn't happy with not being able to vote on previous treaties. Now if instead an expensive area my acquaintance had been given a valueless house in a ex pit village and we had plenty of referenda then I would never have even thought about support Brexit. Countries like Denmark were probably more anti the EU than the UK in the 90s - but they got to vote on treaties we didn't.
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I don't mind foreigners buying here so much (although if they live here they might find that taxes will take away their investment). I mind people being coming here and being given free housing. Now of course that was not the EU's fault, but sadly we couldn't change it. +1 I think if Spain had been as generous as us and loads of economically inactive Brits had gone there to live off Spanish benefits we would not have had Brexit - we might have had Spain leave the EU though!
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Very true. Ironically I think a compromise would have been the best idea. Staying in the EU with a reformed benefit system, working towards the CFP being fairer, referenda on treaties, a clear plan showing enough housing etc could be built. Sadly that was not an option - no one wanted that apart from me.
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I can't believe that people would have gone away to the EU for 6 months don't spend any money in the UK instead. (It is of course possible that people will spend the money outside the EU or the UK). BTW I should have been and said that I am not saying that this is a big deal either way - but it does seem strange the EU wants to punish its travel industry over Brexit. I have a French friend and because of Brexit it is now harder for him to take his dog back to France seems a bit unfair on him.
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That is good news for the UK holiday industry and bad news for the EU holiday industry. Same with the rules on dogs travelling - making it harder for UK citizens to go on holiday to the EU doesn't seem to be a very clever idea for the EU tourist industry. Providing that EU citizens can't get benefits I don't have any problems with them coming here. I do wonder why pro EU politicians didn't change the benefit system as there was resentment from at least 2001, a bit late now.
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There is no housing shortage in Britain - The Telegraph
iamnumerate replied to gp_'s topic in House prices and the economy
I think that is partly true - no pensioner should get pension credit if they live in an expensive home.