howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
What goodies will he throw our way, not much to play with as the national debt is 1. 64 trillion pounds - the equivalent of £25,000 for each man, woman and child in the country.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#2
Nothing really exciting came of it with the usual freeze in fuel duty offset by higher car insurance premium tax. The national living wage will rise by 30 pence an hour from next April with cuts to Universal Credit(whatever that is). Good news for prospective tenants who will no longer have to pay a fee to letting agents.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#3
It's a great shame that Charlie has backed the freeze on fuel duty, which whilst popular will in the main cut costs for old rich people who have large cars and drive miles like me, and who incidentally tend not to be over worried by insurance tax since our premiums are dirt cheap anyway.
A much more radical plan would be to bring in a proper bedroom tax for everyone!
Latest figures show that the number of "under-occupied" households - with [U]two or more spare bedrooms[/U] - in England increased from 6m to 8m in the two decades up to 2015.
Surely it's immoral that I and my carer are rattling round enormous Marlinspike Hall now the kids have left home while others are suffering overcrowding at best and homelessness at worst?
If 'housing' is a scarce resource surely I should be paying a premium on my selfish use of it?
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
you could allways rent some rooms out to the dover/deal homeless.thus keeping in tune and earning a crust to facilitate an upgrade to a rolls Royce for you and your carer.
Guest 1266- Registered: 8 May 2014
- Posts: 381
#5
Captain Haddock wrote:It's a great shame that Charlie has backed the freeze on fuel duty, which whilst popular will in the main cut costs for old rich people who have large cars and drive miles like me, and who incidentally tend not to be over worried by insurance tax since our premiums are dirt cheap anyway.
A much more radical plan would be to bring in a proper bedroom tax for everyone!
Latest figures show that the number of "under-occupied" households - with [U]two or more spare bedrooms[/U] - in England increased from 6m to 8m in the two decades up to 2015.
Surely it's immoral that I and my carer are rattling round enormous Marlinspike Hall now the kids have left home while others are suffering overcrowding at best and homelessness at worst?
If 'housing' is a scarce resource surely I should be paying a premium on my selfish use of it?
You're sounding more like a communist by the day.
Jack of Hearts