Paul
I believe that the badger cull is not a nice thing to do. However it is necessary for scientific research into b ovine tuberculosis (bTB). What are people's views on the planned badger cull?
OK good to know. We'll just have to start drinking an hour earlier.
thanks @flo and @HuwMatthews2 for your replies. Wasting their time sounds fun.
According to the Telephone Preference Service's (TPS) website (see below) they cannot stop market research calls. However we keep receiving sales calls from India pretending to be market research to get around the TPS rules. Has anyone else had this problem and does anyone know how to stop them? (I believe this just shows how utterly useless the TPS is) Telephone Preference ...
@Andysport , "5% of the population pay 95% of the tax" - what a load of rubbish. The government gets around £150bn a year from income tax. So you are saying only 5% of this comes from 95% of the workforce? So 95% of the 29.48 million employed people in the UK, i.e. 28 million, are paying £7.5bn a year in income tax between them or £268 each a year on average or £22 each a month? Oh, how ...
@Brazilnut , families that have had their house repossessed have to move into smaller rented accommodation that they can afford or go share with relatives or move into a caravan. Someone else then buys the property at a lower price hence contributing to lower house prices in general. This is how it used to work back when it would have been considered outrageous to use tax-payers money to bail ...
People that default have to find rental accommodation. Of course people do not earn exactly the average earnings, that is why you have different types of properties to suit different earnings. If you are on a low income you buy a flat or terraced house, if you are on a higher income you buy a semi or detached house. The long term average house price had always been around 3.5 x average ...
@Lynne , the BOE rate was set low to bail out the banks and over-stretched buy-to-let landlords and homeowners who racked up huge debts on residential properties before the financial collapse. Keeping rates low reduces the number of repossessions which would otherwise drive prices back down. People aren't buying, especially first timers, because prices are ridiculously high and no bank is going ...
@Nelson , I thought 'affordable housing' was aimed at social tennents. If I am wrong then I stand corrected. @Lynne , House prices are being propped up by 0.5% BOE interest rates, inflation and other government initiatives aimed at bailing out banks. @Brazilnut , I still do not agree it is right that someone working should get benefits. I agree with benefits as a social safety net and ...
I think you all miss my point. No one is going to spend £000s on a brand new home to live next to people who do not work and live of benefits - fact. On the other points raised, if you are working then you should NOT be on benefits. We've discussed this before on here. Why should someone working full time at Tesco be subsidised by tax payers to pay their rent? If the government is willing to ...
