skeletonw00t said:
Increase the price of fuel... Why not increase the price of water too?
And also perhaps start charging for the privilage of breathing fresh air?
Like Ian who lives near me. The water rates have gone up. Apparently we now have to pay extra for some extra bit that has been moved from government to the water companies. Can't remember what the leaflet says.
Thank you to the poster above who says I can get 20% off. I shall investigate that
Te unemployed on benefits dont care because they pay for nothing anyway. The rich can afford it so they dont care... Yet again its middle england that will foot the bill.
I am unemployed AND on benefits (at the moment) and I do care. I don't pay for anything?............ Try 17 years solid tax and NI matey. Is this not what the dole is for? While I get back to work?
And before someone says get any job I am a trained accountant. When I lost ambition because of 2 redundancies I decided to give up and work in an egg factory. On the shop floor as an operative!!! I enjoyed it and stayed there for 5 years until we Brits were pushed out by the employers by any means possible in favour of the Eastern Europeans so they could lower the wage down to the minimum, remove the subsidised transport, have more reliability, less sick days et al. I ended up out because of the behaviour of other Brits!!! So I had to go back to working for twice as much in the offices
This is happening all over Britain. When questioned the answer is that they aren't working for a lower wage because there is a minimum wage. Well they are because the employers have removed the cost of tranny vans picking up from the council estates and the wage was higher than the minimum wage. It isn't now (at least in the factories I know)
Just so the hippys can claim their saving the earth
You do realise that even if we reduce our carbon emissions by half - china will make up that difference in growth within a year?
Besides all this is utter futility anyway as global warming / climate change is yet to be proven anyway.
I am with you there. The idea (as I see it) isn't to get cars off the road because of climate change. More to do with there being too many cars on the road, too much congestion, too many fumes being breathed by my children. I am not at all going on about the climate change thingamy of which only 3% is attributable to man (if I remember rightly.)
I agree that benefits should be available to all those who need them. I just feel that in my position, I can and will do anything possible to stay off of them. I understand that everyones situation is different, but do you think that if you drove you would stand a better chance of getting a job? (sorry to be cheeky)
Should I have to drive to get a job? If so Why? And I guess yes if I drove I would be able to work at the factories that I used to work at before they removed the subsidised transport that was there until they didn't need to bus in the English Estate workers anymore!!! I could get a job in Nottingham or somewhere an hour (+ whatever rush hour adds.) My children are too important to me to be away for that amount of the day. I'll do any job within a radius of Lincoln. Furthest was 10 miles away so far on the bike. 35 mins there, 45 mins back (blooming great hill so quicker there than back)
Quick Answer. I am not going to take a lesson, nor 2 lessons....ever....I will not pay that kind of money ever again to own and run a car. And I shall be in work before the end of the year in whatever position I can attain be it working on the fields or returning to accountancy (which I detest) and still be happy with making do with whatever I have
The hardest thing is you have to get a permanent position. It took 6 weeks before I saw any money and it would take that every time a temp job finishes. Hand to mouth time there.
The house price statement above is pretty good however it isn't going to change. The 'buy to let' mercenaries may be taking a small hit now the Uni numbers are cut because that was part of their market which boomed in the last few years due to the 'degree in anything we can think of'. However the majority market is Economic migrant sector where all the terraced housing (i.e. first buyer homes) are bought up pretty quickly to rent out. The bigger buy to let portfolios (the pros) are picking up what the smaller portfolios (those who took mortgages to buy to let) are having to relinquish.
Your best bet is to do like I am doing. Get on the Council list, get a council house, live in it for 5 years, then you can get 35% discount to buy it (to a max of £24k) After 2 years you can sell it and move onward and upward taking that discount with you as clear profit. That would make my house with a market value of circa £50k into a £33k buy minus deposit
Timescale? Was on the list for 4 years (whilst in a nicely paid job.) Now lived here for 3.5 years. 1.5 years to go. then 2 more before moving away. Thats what I mean about sacrifice/prioritise/choice. 11 year plan will get me into a reasonably nice home. thats foresight
As for the mortgage. The government gives out this free money. Called tax credits or something like that which is all going straight into my deposit fund. Pretty hefty amounts too - £5k a year. Very generous the government. No idea why they think people need this money but it will come in very handy. Thinking about it if I wait an extra 5 years before buying I may be able to pay in cash. Will thev to do some forecasting on whether I think the housing market will rise again before 2018.
And before anyone says. No I am not cheating the system. The tax credits are being paid because as we (meaning as a family) started the year in employment then the tax credits carry on assuming we are in employment still. If not by April they will stop so I need to get to work before April or my deposit fund is going to stall
I have to play by the book. My Dad was employed investigating and taking the cheats to court. Before he retired at 60
Andy