SteveJ's Posts on Dawlish Discussion

Sorry, here is the news article http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Plymouth-postmistress-accused-pound-31-000-fraud/story-14053930-detail/story.html

I hadn't really being paying much attention to the size of these pensions until the last day or two and I am hearing figures like £10k a year, £6k a year and even as low as £3k a year. These are hardly generous pensions. Mervyn King, the public sector worker who is supposed to be in charge of the bank of england and keep inflation under control and who has failed spectacularly at his job, has a ...

I've never really understood this affordable housing malarkey. It just seems to me to be some scheme to sell houses to first time buyers whilst trying to ensure house prices do not fall in the area. The thing people have to realise is that the last decade of house price rises were due to overlending by banks and overborrowing by property speculators causing a housing bubble. Inevitably the ...

When it used to be Sharifs (not sure of spelling) the pizzas were one of the best around, especially the chilli meat ones. I don't know where you get a decent pizza anymore. Also, I wish they would stop this stupid bogof malarkey and just charge a sensible price in the first place. I was caught out by a bogof in Exeter and paid double what I should have. I had gone to pick them up for my ...

Smokey you are right about these prefabs still being around. I have seen them on Rightmove in parts of England. I think Wiltshire but can't be sure off hand. The problem is not the cost of building houses but the cost of land marked for residential purposes. This is completely under the control of government along with the bank of England base rate. Having bailed out the banks, which ...

I probably misheard then. There has been talk about it on here and I was wondering if anything had been earmarked as part of the planning. Not interested in buying myself. I am interested in schemes that are in place to waste or abuse tax payers money. For example, the First Time Buyers scheme is a complete abuse of tax payers money in that the sole purpose is to try to prop up a deflating and ...

It makes me laugh seeing these British workers arriving back from Libya whinging 'It was terrible - people were killing each other' and 'our company just abandoned us'. Where exactly do they think they have been working all these years? Did they really not understand the risks of working in the Middle East? Did they even know where they were working?

It could be sooner, Lynne that is true, but I think the government has not yet p*ssed off enough people for an uprising like we see in Egypt. They have of course already p*ssed off most people under the age of 25 (tuition fees trebled, no hope of ever buying a house, etc.). The reason I say a year is because many of the government funded agencies are being phased out by March 2012. There will be ...

I think there are 2 schools of thought here. I am all for letting the banks fail, accepting the job losses, repossessions, etc. picking up the pieces, learning by the mistakes and building a better system. In fact, I could not care less if it 'costs' more which I'm sure it would not. It may be 'embarrassing' for some people who overstretched and now are unable to keep up with the Joneses but who ...

Sorry, that was slightly off topic from the original post. I had another point and that was that councils tend to take advantage of fines in order to improve revenue when times get tough. So we need to be on our guards. In fact, the cost of implementing the speeding cameras in 1992 was recovered through the fines imposed on speeding drivers.

Lynne, of course it bears thinking about. You can't have free market capitalism if governments pick and choose what companies are allowed to go bust or not. What didn't bear thinking about was the alternative which was the transfer of a huge amount of taxpayer's money, most of which comes from the poorest since most people are poor, to the richest and which clearly continues today unabated as is ...

No, Zoopla prices are not wrong and they do not match the thoughts of Estate Agents. There are several 3 bed houses on Zoopla that sold for less than £130K. Also, I do not see any 1 bedroom flats that have sold for 90K.