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  • in reply to: General Discussion #284118
    waco
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    It hasn’t happened because nobody has had the resolve to do it.

    House building is a fantastic way of social quantitative easing by way of generating considerable employment as an excellent bi-product.

    Mass produced, pre fabricated housing in a suitable location should be considered and actioned.

    The trouble being nobody wants it in my back yard. Making it, for some a vote looser ( ie we live in a nice place and we want it all for our selves and don’t want anyone else to have it ).

    B@llocks to that….just start building and…..despite the current (and welcome) massive drop in oil prices
    lets start fracking as well.

    It has cost me just about everything to move from the north to the south east. Having done so nearly 4 years ago
    there is no way I could afford to buy my now…..nor anything near us. That’s a dreadful thing !

    How on earth are people going to live if they cannot afford anywhere to buy or rent. What kind of society does this ?

    Its not about party politics its about common sense !

    in reply to: General Discussion #284124
    waco
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    Ahhhh silly me

    Billions and billions to the banks and finance houses to prop up their business and improve the bottom line is ok.

    But not places for ordinary people to live.

    Have you any idea how expensive property is in the south east ?

    Pre fabs…..great my family lived in one for quite a time when my dad was de-mobbed from the Navy

    Modern style, easy to assemble, cheap to build……go for it ! I’m all in favour !

    in reply to: General Discussion #284143
    waco
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    Nope…its very very simple…………….

    Build more social housing now !

    Just consider it a form of quantitative easing………

    in reply to: I thought this was interesting #1832885
    waco
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    As stated…it was an article in today’s Daily Telegraph with 10 suggestions to improve life in 2015.

    in reply to: I thought this was interesting #1832890
    waco
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    So…………you try and stimulate a debate with an interesting article form a right wing uk newspaper. And what do you get…..glib comments.
    Try reading the whole paragraph…about second homes and the like.

    in reply to: Balls !! #1832977
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    Well Jim…it makes a change from the banks and a number of financial institutions (ie pension companies)….where the managers perform dreadfully but get pots of money and pay rises whilst the workers get made redundant !

    Its called capitalism…..it doesn’t work, it never has. It simply keeps a very small number of people very rich whilst everyone suffers to varying degrees.

    And until we try something else….that’s just how its going to stay !

    in reply to: Jim's Christmas #1834543
    waco
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    All the very best for Christmas and 2015 Jim…Treat yourself to a good book. You cannot beat a good book a comfy chair a wee dram ( make that a very large dram !).
    Cheers !

    in reply to: Nigel rises again- Is this the second coming? #1837539
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    I must admit to being exceedingly concerned for the future.

    As a lifelong labour supporter and proud socialist I despair at the current state of the Labour party and in particular its leadership. Although I believe Milliband possesses a keen and academic mind. I feel he lacks the vast majority of skills required to lead UK PLC. Further, how can I trust the judgement of a man who believes that Ed Balls should be Chancellor of the Exchequer.

    Ramsay MacDonald must be turning in his grave.

    Meanwhile, Nick Clegg has taught us one thing. That he would sell all his principles (if he ever had any) to acquire the Deputy Prime Minister title. He has, in a short period of time. Damaged forever a proud party with a proud history. His party will sink without trace in the next election.

    THE combined wealth of the Cabinet is more than £70million, with Prime Minister David Cameron worth almost £4million. The current Conservative party is interested in one thing and one thing alone. Maintaining the status quo. That is keeping the rich, well rich and everyone else in the sh@t. They have no real interest in helping people outside their own sphere.

    I would love at this point to go into considerable economic and social arguments to prove my point, but I’m going to save writing that book for another day.

    HOWEVER….what really scares me is UKIP, The following is from an article in the Daily Torygraph…..It details some of UKIP’s policies

    A Legalise handguns

    B US Style NHS (Having worked and studied in the States I’ve seen this system destroy people and entire families, remember, most insurance companies will not cover preexisting medical problems )

    C Speak English on trains …….heaven help us.

    D Blow up wind farms

    E Make friends with Vladimir Putin

    F Bar HIV positive people from the UK

    The UK is a very small country that cannot stand on its own in the world anymore. We simply are not strong enough economically. Ok our pharmaceutical industry is impressive and we still feature on the world stage when it comes to our aeronautical industries .
    However, the majority of our wealth, rightly or wrongly comes from the “city” if we leave Europe, most of this pre-eminence will disappear double quick to New York and Frankfurt….along with the vast majority of foreign investors. From the Mail “Nissan boss warns of leaving UK if we quit EU despite praising firm’s ‘blessed’ Sunderland factory”

    To paraphrase the man who saved this nation almost on his own (HCTD) if this country leaves the EU it “will involve the final, complete and irremediable defeat of this country.”

    Goodness only knows where we go from here. I believe virtually all our politicians are only interested in obtaining and maintaining personal power, position and through these two, personal wealth. They are only interested in themselves and short term individual gain.

    I really do fear for the future.

    in reply to: Nigel rises again- Is this the second coming? #1837541
    waco
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    The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) says as many people in working families as in unemployed ones now live in poverty, after a decade of labour market upheaval which means a job is no longer a guarantee of an end to poverty.

    Its annual report says the rise of part-time work and low-paid self-employment has been accompanied by a sharp increase in the number of under-25s living below the breadline as they struggle to cope with falling incomes, poor prospects and high costs from housing to food.

    A lack of affordable housing also means those living in poverty are now as likely to be in private, usually rented, accommodation – at higher risk of eviction and homelessness – as in local authority or social housing. Some 13 million people in the UK are classified as living in relative poverty – meaning their household income is below 60 per cent of the average.

    By contrast, pensioners have benefited from targeted policies, seeing a sharp fall in poverty to a record low level: from once being the most likely to be poor, the over-65s now have the lowest poverty rate of any age group.

    The prevalence of zero hours contracts – of which there are now some 1.4 million – and part-time work has contributed to a situation where two-thirds of people who moved from unemployment into work in the past year are being paid less than the living wage – the amount needed to cover basic costs of living.

    Many are also effectively trapped in low-paid work, with only 20 per cent of employees having left that income bracket after a decade in employment. The average self-employed person now earns 13 per cent less than they did five years ago.

    Half of all people in poverty now live in a family with someone in paid work, with some 40 per cent of adults in employment now also in poverty.

    If this situation is allowed to continue, which it is likely to, it will end in tears !

    in reply to: …As I walk this land of broken dreams… #1837546
    waco
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    Farewell is a lonely sound
    thanks Jimmy……..

    in reply to: NHS Problems #1837550
    waco
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    Sage words from the mogster………..

    in reply to: Nigel rises again- Is this the second coming? #1837561
    waco
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    A public servant, on his way home from work in London traffic came

    to a dead halt and thought to himself, “This is unusual.”

    He noticed a police officer walking between the lines of stopped

    cars, so he rolled down his window and asked, “Officer, what’s the hold-up?”

    The officer replied, “The Prime Minister is depressed, so he stopped

    his motorcade and is threatening to douse himself with petrol and set

    himself on fire. He says no one believes his stories about the economy, or that his tax

    cuts will help anyone except his wealthy friends, his position on Europe, getting thrashed in the bi-elections by UKIP,

    reducing the military to a minor defense force and leaving a maritime nation without maritime aircraft and

    starting the destruction of the NHS.

    So we’re taking up a

    collection for him.”

    The public servant asks, “How much have you got so far?”

    The officer replies, “About 200 litres, but a lot of people are still

    siphoning.”

    in reply to: Nigel rises again- Is this the second coming? #1837648
    waco
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    Somebody on Radio 4’s excellent news quiz said “UKIP is for people who think their lives are someone else’s fault”.

    I thought that was excellent…….

    in reply to: Waddington air show #870500
    waco
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    Thanks to everyone especially twin o for the updates.

    Has saved me a trip………..think I’ll try and give my money to someone else now !

    cheers again !

    in reply to: Kev35 #1859160
    waco
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    Keep going Kev……..all the very best !

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