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[WILF 46,875]

The richest country in the world has no personal income tax.......think about that for a minute.......then think about the lies you are being told by your own governments !

[jukel123 8,084]

 

 

 

We can agree on one thing neems, and that is that the differential between wages and property prices is outrageous. However, I believe the cause of this is twofold.Firstly wage rises in this country have lagged behind every country in Europe, principally because people in this country swallowed the lie that swingeing austerity measures were necessary to 'balance the books'. Suddenly every halfwit was banging on about the 'deficit' as if they knew what it meant. The government should have taken the opportunity to invest in the country's economy and infrastructure whilst interest rates were so historically low. Inflation is forecast to rise steeply following brexit ...this would would have further reduced the country's loan payments. But that simple measure, recommended by many of the world's leading economists ( left and right) was beyond the clueless George Osbourne. Instead he drove down wages as though to 'blame' the very people who had nothing to do with the financial crash. Falling wage levels results in less money swilling about the economy, which in turn impacts on every other economic indicator.

Secondly, successive governments have scandalously failed to build enough houses for Britain's growing population. I believe this is because politicians of whatever political persuasion have a withering contempt for the british people. It's supply and demand less houses to buy means higher house prices.

 

There's a few things there Id disagree with,overpopulation is the root cause for the price of houses and mass unskilled immigration keeps the working mans wage low,not austerity measures.

 

But the selfishness of government isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

 

The lack of trade union power plus relentless austerity measures have led to stagnant wages in the UK. It doesn't matter how many workers are applying for a vacancy as long have a solid union insisting on proper wages and conditions.

The tories have introduced such punitive laws with regard to the power of the unions that they have rendered powerless poodles.The Sun and The Daily Mail have also brainwashed people into thinking unions are bad. In fact the unions, together with The Labour Party when it was a genuine party fro working people dragged this country out of the dark ages.

Ironically, having destroyed the unions, the tories then had to increase the minimum wage because people were(are) being paid washers. Unbelievable.

 

Are you saying that mass immigration has had no impact on low wages and jobs especialy in the old mining communitys.

 

No.

[j j m 6,539]

goverments do nothing but lie

[BGD 6,436]

 

 

 

 

We can agree on one thing neems, and that is that the differential between wages and property prices is outrageous. However, I believe the cause of this is twofold.Firstly wage rises in this country have lagged behind every country in Europe, principally because people in this country swallowed the lie that swingeing austerity measures were necessary to 'balance the books'. Suddenly every halfwit was banging on about the 'deficit' as if they knew what it meant. The government should have taken the opportunity to invest in the country's economy and infrastructure whilst interest rates were so historically low. Inflation is forecast to rise steeply following brexit ...this would would have further reduced the country's loan payments. But that simple measure, recommended by many of the world's leading economists ( left and right) was beyond the clueless George Osbourne. Instead he drove down wages as though to 'blame' the very people who had nothing to do with the financial crash. Falling wage levels results in less money swilling about the economy, which in turn impacts on every other economic indicator.

Secondly, successive governments have scandalously failed to build enough houses for Britain's growing population. I believe this is because politicians of whatever political persuasion have a withering contempt for the british people. It's supply and demand less houses to buy means higher house prices.

it did not help things when councils sold off there council homes for a pittance to tenants that sold them on after a couple of years,over a third of all council homes are now owned by rich landlords

If they had sold them for enough to build another house and actually done it, then it would have been a good idea.

I could have bought my nans house 25 years ago for £26,000, place is worth £350,000 now, I could have afforded the mortgage on apprentice wages back then.

The whole point of the right to buy policy was to diminish social housing stock that's why central government banned councils from using the revenue from selling off stock to build more houses.

[jukel123 8,084]

 

 

 

We can agree on one thing neems, and that is that the differential between wages and property prices is outrageous. However, I believe the cause of this is twofold.Firstly wage rises in this country have lagged behind every country in Europe, principally because people in this country swallowed the lie that swingeing austerity measures were necessary to 'balance the books'. Suddenly every halfwit was banging on about the 'deficit' as if they knew what it meant. The government should have taken the opportunity to invest in the country's economy and infrastructure whilst interest rates were so historically low. Inflation is forecast to rise steeply following brexit ...this would would have further reduced the country's loan payments. But that simple measure, recommended by many of the world's leading economists ( left and right) was beyond the clueless George Osbourne. Instead he drove down wages as though to 'blame' the very people who had nothing to do with the financial crash. Falling wage levels results in less money swilling about the economy, which in turn impacts on every other economic indicator.

Secondly, successive governments have scandalously failed to build enough houses for Britain's growing population. I believe this is because politicians of whatever political persuasion have a withering contempt for the british people. It's supply and demand less houses to buy means higher house prices.

it did not help things when councils sold off there council homes for a pittance to tenants that sold them on after a couple of years,over a third of all council homes are now owned by rich landlords

If they had sold them for enough to build another house and actually done it, then it would have been a good idea.

I could have bought my nans house 25 years ago for £26,000, place is worth £350,000 now, I could have afforded the mortgage on apprentice wages back then.

The whole point of the right to buy policy was to diminish social housing stock that's why central government banned councils from using the revenue from selling off stock to build more houses.

 

Tories think building council houses produces labour voters. Which is bollocks.

[j j m 6,539]

you got that one right mate