General Discussion
Lynne you have to be aware that at present the state pension is made up of two (or more) parts, the basic state pension and then there are extras based on individual NI contributions both pre and post 1997 and add to this the old graduated national insurance contributions. So for a lot of people their own contributions into the NI system do make up a large part of their individual state pension, ...
The most likely cut will be to free prescriptions, listen to the talk of NHS costs and it would be a great one to target. Just think if the pensioners cannot afford their medicines they will pass away and that solves many things all in one go. No pensions to pay, no bus passes to fund, reduced ederly care home costs to the goverment and all those empty houses for others to buy at very reduced ...
WFA is paid to all who are over 60 , retired or not Although if you are not in receipt of state pension you will probable have to make a claim for it.
You only have too look at the parent company saying that it s committed to increasing dividends by 4% above the rate of inflation to know that we the customers are going to pay more Revenue up by 5.6% profits up by 6.4%.
Do we sell in US Dollars or GBP, might be that we have something more valuable than oil. After all motor manufacturers are working on ways to power cars from water.
And they say that building houses does not add to flood risk. Just more examples of the builders total lack of care for the envoiroment. I thought the site design included a large soke away to stop this happening.
Soundss like the Dawlish council is doing the right thing but will TDC listen, or will they just use "elf & safety as an excuse.
Seen on TV today that there are 1,000,000 empty home in the uk , why do we need to build more? What are we going to do when all the good farmland has been built on.
The last project I was involved with there were plans for a doctors surgery, what was built was a parade of shops. More money in the shops than a doctors surgery as I said before developers only look at what is profitable. As for what NHS say there is a big difference between 300 and 2000.Yes I would like to see orchards and allotments but greedy landowners are only interested in the profit they ...
@Lynne perhaps though the additional school and doctors surgery could be built on this land both will be needed when the proposed houses are built. also the projected number for dawlish is 2000 houses but we both know that developers will find ways to increase this number. having been employed by a major house builder i know what pressure they put on councils to get what they want.
