Bloody left leaners and there sloppy cut and paste laziness. Why can't they just apply a little critical thinking of their own, rather than just parroting stuff that is clearly utter nonsense, but sounds good anyway.
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[Politics] Hammond's Budget
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Bloody left leaners and there sloppy cut and paste laziness. Why can't they just apply a little critical thinking of their own, rather than just parroting stuff that is clearly utter nonsense, but sounds good anyway.
pastafarian
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Not forgetting the bus didn’t actually say all of the £350m should go to the NHS
shhhh dont tell them Pike
nicko31
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That waive of stamp duty should push up prices nicely, well done to anyone who's already got a house.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
- 6,364
They should just grant all these applications carte blanche. There are no restrictions anymore. The Green Belt Iis being built on everywhere. Free up the Royal Parks, free up the National Parks and build on every school playing field. We want our population to keep growing unabated. Its good for our economy. We need more roads everywhere. We have infinite resources. We can cope. Lets build, build, build as much as we can. Fill up the farmland and countryside with houses. Keep the brownfield sites for travellers and massive waste recycling depots.
But by chucking on the mortgage they have to borrow less than they otherwise could.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,204
Yes. Precisely. The relatively well off.
Propping up house prices is deliberate Tory policy and as such there is plenty of money available for anything that will help..
Dealing with homelessness is not Tory policy.
Evens chance of it kicking right off soon.
pastafarian
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Bagsy not sitting next to spittle shouty jeremy.....ewwwww
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
A slight exaggeration Mo, when only 5% of the mainland is actually built up.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,277
Massive is subjective. I don't agree with this most of this Budget, but it is clear the Chancellor has taken a raft of measures to increase the number of properties available to first time buyers, making it more affordable to buy whilst simultaneously making second home ownership less attractive.
pastafarian
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eh?
Jeremys plan- people dont have to pay back more than they have taken out on a credit card........WTF
did i hear that right?
Jeremys plan- people dont have to pay back more than they have taken out on a credit card........WTF
did i hear that right?
To expand on the housing point. The system is broken.
I bought my house in 2009 for 187k. It is a new build. Next door sold for 195k (I won).
Roll forward to 2017. Houses worth 300k (one in our row sold in the summer). My repayment mortgage is about 750 quid a month (if I didn't overpay). My neighbours pay about 1300 RENT a month.
So the rent is almost double my repayment mortgage and looking at 1k capital gains a month. So the people renting (young professionals) are losing out to the tune of over 1.5k a month.
How can that be right?
I bought my house in 2009 for 187k. It is a new build. Next door sold for 195k (I won).
Roll forward to 2017. Houses worth 300k (one in our row sold in the summer). My repayment mortgage is about 750 quid a month (if I didn't overpay). My neighbours pay about 1300 RENT a month.
So the rent is almost double my repayment mortgage and looking at 1k capital gains a month. So the people renting (young professionals) are losing out to the tune of over 1.5k a month.
How can that be right?
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,277
Nobody here has mentioned the Office of Tax Simplication's Report into VAT that advised the VAT threshold be reduced. Hammond himself mentioned we have the highest VAT threshold in the OECD that is £65,000 higher than the same threshold in Germany, yet he's ducked it / kicked the can down the road by freezing the £85K threshold for 2 years.
What is the point of the OTS if he doesn't implement their recommendations? They produce a lot of Reports, but in 7 years what have they done, what recommendation has been implemented? It's looking like a sham organisation giving the false illusion that the government give a sh1t about fundamental tax reform.
What is the point of the OTS if he doesn't implement their recommendations? They produce a lot of Reports, but in 7 years what have they done, what recommendation has been implemented? It's looking like a sham organisation giving the false illusion that the government give a sh1t about fundamental tax reform.
sussex_guy2k2
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- Jun 6, 2014
- 4,088
He can f-off. I bought my first house a matter of months ago and now he abolishes Stamp Duty...
Yeah I'd quite like my money back too. Missed a stamp duty holiday a few years back by 3 weeks or somethng.
Perfidious Albion
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I didn't hear any help for Seniors and pensions......
Im in the same boat. Where do we apply for the refund?
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,277
I suggest that you stop beating yourself over this. Try getting up half an hour earlier each day. Eventually you will be able to leave the house early enough that your neighbours curtains are still drawn.