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Not a big drop, but I remember seeing this on for £225K last year. All they've done is a bit of painting in 2 rooms if that, now someone is buying it for around £315K, utter lunacy...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136500674#/?channel=RES_BUY
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2 hours ago, 70PC said:
The emergency exit for Del Boys has been auctions. From another thread on this forum, it would seem that boat has sailed.
Dunno, watched a wreck near me up for auction, and I mean a wreck with a plant growing into living room through external wall and no floorboards in one large upstair room, no kitchen, no bathroom, multiple areas of damp etc etc. On for £140K, at auction went for £274K, it will need £100K spending on it at least. That was last week.
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7 hours ago, HomeAlone2 said:
Seems the devil is in the detail
I like his technical term ... 🤣
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10 minutes ago, Stewy said:
Perhaps Christmas 2024 but it's a solid prediction. 😄
Yes, house prices to the moon ...
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27 minutes ago, Stewy said:
Higher IRs also give boomers a nice windfall to go out and spend.
🤣 interest rates are negative if you take inflation into account ...
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Traders now see BoE interest rates peaking at around 6.00% in December, having earlier this month priced in rates rising as high as 6.5% by March.
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Who's right them or the Telegraph with their 25% drop ? 🤣 Of course the latter could also be a ploy and plea for a bailout from their sponsor party ...
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2 hours ago, kzb said:
Try it for yourself if you doubt it.
Admittedly I ran the search several days ago. Perhaps it has changed since then. There were about 5 or 6 advertisers, and it is possible they had several vacancies each.
Even so the number of opportunities notified to the Jobcentre seems extremely limited relative to the size of the kerfuffle about finding people to pick produce on farms.
It'd be interesting to see if you get the same results.
I got zero for fruit and veg picker and variations of that, 30 for farm worker. If this is the real number the uk vacancy number must be a work of fiction.
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3 hours ago, scottbeard said:
Apart from the ones that are falling they aren’t falling?!
In other news, apart from the wet days this summer has been 100% sunshine
In other news pedants are still pedants ...
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1 minute ago, winkie said:
Very few......employers are reluctant to train and educate able-bodied let alone disabled....
Exactly, it's utter fantasy pushed by politicians and the ill informed ..
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2 minutes ago, 70PC said:
I made no reference to percentages. Blind people have jobs as do many in wheelchairs. There are also non stressful jobs. Should the state pay for people to sit at home because their career choice is too stressful?
So you don't know and are just making up "facts", i.e. "Blind people have jobs as do many in wheelchairs." for your argument ? Did I mention mental health ?
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6 minutes ago, spyguy said:
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remploy
Duering the Blair years Remploy went from being a pretty cheap, useful work scheme, to something that employed a huge extra layer of public sector troughers n do gooders, all on private sector salaries cos .... well those people could have got jobs in the private sector.
In 2007 Remploy moved from an operation that provided employment to disabled people to one that provided high cost advice from back to work consultants.
factories werent needed, so they tried to shut them down.
Massive fallout .
In 2006, Remploy Employment Services opened its first high-street branch in Newhall Street, Birmingham;[citation needed] since that date a further forty branches and thirty offices have opened from Glasgow to Plymouth, often in the same general location as their former factory sites. The five-year project to develop Remploy as a high-street brand allowed the business to support its vision of assisting over 10,000 disabled customers into mainstream employment, a target achieved in the financial year of 2009–10.
In 2009 Remploy was selected as a prime- and sub-contractor to deliver the then government's 'Flexible New Deal' contract, which aimed to help the long-term unemployed back into work. After the change in government, a year later, it became a sub-contractor in the Coalition government's Work Programme.
In 2009/10 Remploy placed over 10,500 people into jobs across a range of sectors.
In March 2010, Remploy went mobile: two thirty-foot mobile 'jobs mobiles' were rolled out in the High Peaks and South Yorkshire to support the FND programme. The mobile units have provided support to disabled customers in the most hard-to-reach geographical areas where access to public transport is limited.[citation needed]
By the time the coalition came in the factories had been reduced to little.
The wage bill of the troughers was enormous, so it was shutdown.
To misquote Matt Talibie - a great vampire lady squid, wearing flat sensible shoes, wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money
Fair enough, what percentage of former Remploy employees who were disabled got jobs in private sector ?
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2 hours ago, nothernsoul said:
Just looked up amount for unemployment benefit. It is £67.20 for those under 25 and £84.80 for those over it. Cannot see how levels that low are a disincentive to work. A lot of the under 25 will live at home so won't receive housing benefit.
There are 1.6 million( 4 percent of the population) officially unemployed. I don't think this is a historically high level. What is at historically high levels, as mentioned on another thread, are 4 million plus people on disability benefits. This is the area the government should focus on getting people into employment where possible.
There is something like 8 million economically inactive between the ages of 16 and 65, the unemployment figures have been a work of fiction for decades.
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47 minutes ago, kzb said:
JOBCENTRE PLUS
Search for "Bar Staff" whole UK
Result:
378 vacancies
Search for "Chef" whole UK
Result:
4,806 vacancies.
Search for "waiter" whole UK
Result:
836 vacancies.
So it has to be said the picture is a lot better for prospective hospitality workers than for fruit/veg pickers (only about 6 vacancies in the whole UK).
I thought there was a massive shortage of fruit/veg pickers, that's the constant retort in the media from farmers.
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On 14/07/2023 at 23:28, scottbeard said:
At that time most people were in DB schemes that were in surplus, so the raid didn't actually affect the amount of pension people got directly, just what employers had to pay.
People only began to actually lose out 5-10 years later when companies began closing the schemes as being too expensive, and that's when the penny dropped that Brown had contributed to the demise .
It totally screwed over some people I know who were self employed and had private pension schemes.
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On 14/07/2023 at 19:12, jiltedjen said:
Doesn’t apply to all pension providers.
mine is not effected.
in theory it’s a sound idea, help start ups.
but in this country you won’t succeed if you are the one of those wishful dreamers who have great ideas. You won’t find yourself in a wonderful environment to grow and develop.
instead you either get rich kids, trying and crappy idea mostly based on ego. Who don’t really need it to win, or frauds.
the UK is toxic to start ups. have you tried to find some cheap land or business unit, or reasonable high street rent? Or face regulations designed to keep competition at bay? Or that profit you made? That’s got to go on the mortgage or your own rent instead of back into the business.
we are a land of rent seekers, about old boys clubs, the old guard, and connections. even if you do well, most of your profit is funnelled to someone else anyway. Want to have cheap workers? Well you can’t, they need to pay huge rents also.
most start ups fail.
the 5% is just handing your money over to con artists, or posh boys with bad ideas.
All that money being funnelled out of pensions, how many start ups will be set up just to siphon that money and go bust? It’s not even hard, but a cheap row of vacant shop units. Set up 5 or 6 start ups, funnel the money into rent (your own pocket) let the start ups go bust when the money runs out.
if you do have a genuinely good idea and want to start a successful business you just wouldn’t do it in the UK. You would be a moron.
Spot on. The UK's strategy is doomed to failure too, as the number of parasites/rent seekers at some point will overwhelm the host...
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On 15/07/2023 at 14:39, 70PC said:
"Ominously, more than 40 per cent of new claims involve mental-health issues. The system simply doesn’t know how to process or cope with such claims."
This is nonsense. Blind people have jobs as do those in wheelchairs. Many in work have mental health issues. If stress or depression is problem, this a case of finding the right job. Keep the benefits money for people in real dificulty.
What percentage of blind people and those in a wheelchair have jobs ? I doubt it is a very high number, be real employers are not falling over themselves to employ the disabled and sick, why do you think Remploy existed until the Tories killed it off.
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Even if the NHS miraculously shortens the waiting lists, it will not make much difference in terms of employment for the sick and disabled. They cannot cure incurable debilitating chronic diseases or disabilities although many appear to think they can. Truly laughable.
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On 15/07/2023 at 14:11, spyguy said:
That sujuems that the peopel are poorly rather than skiving.
And they are willign to go back to work - prob for he 1st time in their life.
Want to improve UK health?
Reduce NHS waiting lists??
Make benefits contruibtion absed and time limited.
If you have worked and paid enough NI stamp, you will get contributory based Universal Credit for 6 months and that's it unless you are deemed to have such a low income you qualify for income based Universal credit. I.e. it is time limited unless you are living in absolute poverty or have a load of kids in which case you get income based Universal Credit, plus housing benefit for your landlord.
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4 hours ago, Pmax2020 said:
Every single person I’ve know that said they ‘can’t work’, could easily work but just didn’t want to.
We don’t do enough in this country to get lazy people working. Nothing will change though.
Do you think housing benefit should be stopped ?
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32 minutes ago, 17clarence said:
Labour pro-Brexit to protect their core base voters salaries. I could be wrong.
You been asleep since 2004 ? 🤣 Labour did more than anyone to undermine the wages of the working class.
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5 hours ago, Insane said:
However no one on the debate including the host stated the obvious which is :-
IF BRITS CANNOT MAKE THINGS WORK IN LONDON ON £10- £12 per hour HOW CAN A FOREIGNER MAKE THINGS WORK? ".
By living in sheds and HMO's of BTL'ers.
Examples of big & multiple drops
in House prices and the economy
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Yep I couldn't believe anyone actually made an offer, unless it's 80K to 90K less than the asking price 🤣 I'm pretty sure it only sold fairly late last year, as I remember about 3 people pulled out as it kept coming back on. They want nearly 100K for something they bought less than a year ago where they have painted a couple of rooms at most. Clearly we are in the wrong business ..