Are house prices too high?
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Expel all illegal immigrants and give UK citizens some financial help to emigrate
Peter Jones,
If all the immigrants were sent home then there wouldn't be a need for the English to abandon their homes. Peaceful White Briton, can you imagine?
Are house prices too high?
Expel all illegal immigrants and give UK citizens some financial help to emigrate
Peter Jones,
If all the immigrants were sent home then there wouldn't be a need for the English to abandon their homes. Peaceful White Briton, can you imagine?
[happybrian123]
Yes! Thick hooligans could roam free! We could eat stodgy brown food every day! Chas and Dave would be on the radio all the time! Inbred toffs could lead us! Tomorrow belongs to racist little england fantasies!
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"Thats right, we introduced the HR act so Cherie could make a mint! Frankly your accusations are becoming flimsier and more bizarre as the day goes on.
LiberalLeft AndProud, United Kingdom"
Philby, Philby, give it up old luv.
Blair is a lawyer, his wife is a lawyer, most of his government are lawyers, many of his friends a lawyers.
Who makes most from the Human Rights Act????
Even you cannot be naive enough to dismiss the connection.
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The fruity tone becomes more tedious with every posting, Billybob, my old darling. The HR act was passed because it was the right thing to do and enshrined the convention on HR in UK Law. Only right wing reactionaries oppose it, oh and the duped tabloid readers.
LeftLiberal AndProud
One only has to look at the main "beneficiaries" of the HR act to see what nonsense it is. BTW, why are you allowed so many postings by the BBC Pinkos?
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The HR act was passed because it was the right thing to do and enshrined the convention on HR in UK Law.
LeftLiberal AndProud
Right for who though?
Dave Blake
Everyone except the law abiding, tax paying British citizens. Its high time this HR rubbished was thrown out but labour have never listened to the electorate and I don't expect them to start now.
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The HR act was passed because it was the right thing to do and enshrined the convention on HR in UK Law.
LeftLiberal AndProud
Right for who though?
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Philby, Philby, give it up old luv.
Blair is a lawyer, his wife is a lawyer..
Who makes most from the Human Rights Act????
Even you cannot be naive enough to dismiss the connection.
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom
The fruity tone becomes more tedious with every posting, Billybob, my old darling. The HR act was passed because it was the right thing to do and enshrined the convention on HR in UK Law. Only right wing reactionaries oppose it, oh and the duped tabloid readers.
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"BillyBob, (your billy persona not coming out to play today?) "
Don't concern yourself - "the one and only" is still out there and will doubtless emerge when hungry - if you know where to look.
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1). Get an education in a well paid subject
(2). Work harder, do a second job, save money
(3). 1 2 = earning above average with above average deposit = buying a house
Stop complaining and expecting it all be handed to you on a silver plate.
Andrew Sidonia
Arrogant C* nt
[ElOraculo]
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I could have put it better, but the moderators would have had me.
Are house prices too high?
1). Get an education in a well paid subject
(2). Work harder, do a second job, save money
(3). 1 2 = earning above average with above average deposit = buying a house
Stop complaining and expecting it all be handed to you on a silver plate.
Andrew Sidonia
Arrogant C* nt
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Buy to rent scum are greedy pigs just like cherie the ugly dog blair.
Are fat people and immigrants to blame?
Discuss...
[theleftiswrong]
Nothing to discuss.
She is SUCH a minger. Everbody has the right to be ugly, but by God she abuses that privilege to death.
Fat people are greedy and don't deserve a house - just a pig sty in which to keep their troughs
Can't comment on immigrants for fear of censorship by Mods
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Buy to rent scum are greedy pigs just like cherie the ugly dog blair.
Are fat people and immigrants to blame?
Discuss...
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"I've worked as a computer programmer since 1999, been laid off twice in that period but seen my pay go up about 500% to well over double the national average.
500 unsuccessful job applications might tell you to try another career!
Sam Vella, Manchester, United Kingdom "
And are you any happier? Been there done that, welcome my fellow rat.
Alison Sandhurst
IT nerds lack even the most basic social skills and spend much of their day typing garbage onto HYS (John Bull, Whoo Hoo Etc..)
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Most asylum seekers are economic migrants, no more.
Under the UN charter, they should seek asylum in the first safe country they come to.
Most of them should b**ger off back to the first country they skulked through. Supposedly theres another 40K houses being built around here and I can't see anyone but dole spongers, benefit cheats and migrants being housed in them as they will no doubt be all be bought and built by the housing societies. The working man is losing out!
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To Susan Hoggard the only flawed concept is if we believe that messers Bliar and Bush will ever feel guilty about the loss of life they have sanctioned.
and the UN for having no backbone
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A house must stop being an investment. If you want to invest buy shares you greedy bas*ards.
Hopefully the market will crash and bring the pigs to ruin.
If this government had any worth it would limit house ownership to 1 per person.
A house is necessary shelter - not a means of becoming rich without ever going to work.
Surely if somebody was pumping all the oxygen out of the air and starting selling it for more and more as the supply ran out they'd get shot.
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Is the Pope Catholic?
totally fed up, United Kingdom
Yes, I believe he is. I'm surprised you didn't know -- he doesn't exactly keep the fact a secret!
H Glop, Leeds, United Kingdom
Looks like you have a serious humour failure there H Glop! It's called stating the obvious in order to make a point - surprised you didn't know that!
Really Annoyed Now, United Kingdom
OMG!
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Nice to see you sneering at hard work and achievement. What else could one expect from a Scot, the Land of The Sponger.
Russell Long, Tonbridge, Kent
Oh, that touched a raw nerve. What bile! And that from someone in the land of the wide-boy ripoff merchant. Hard work doesn't mean exploitation of the least protected and most vulnerable in society, ie the poor and underpaid. I suppose you don't realise that Adam Smith was a Scot, though, do you? Google the name if you don't know who he was..
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The only way out of these ridiculous house prices would be to build millions more houses which then destroys the beauty of this country or else remove all the immigrants coming here.
The only way you could ever make a country into a kind of paradise would be to strictly limit the number of people living in it.
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Tribalism alert:
"Nice to see you sneering at hard work and achievement. What else could one expect from a Scot, the Land of The Sponger."
Russell Long, Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom
Now I'm going to wash my mouth out with Dettol to get rid of the bad teste you left.
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Are house prices too high?
Is the Pope Catholic?
totally fed up, United Kingdom
Yes, I believe he is. I'm surprised you didn't know -- he doesn't exactly keep the fact a secret!
H Glop, Leeds, United Kingdom
Looks like you have a serious humour failure there H Glop! It's called stating the obvious in order to make a point - surprised you didn't know that!
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Nice to see you sneering at hard work and achievement. What else could one expect from a Scot, the Land of The Sponger.
Russell Long, Tonbridge, Kent
Hey Russell, Wills & Kate have just split up, apparently - go comment on that with your bigoted nonsense instead of getting other contributors' comments removed for replying to your bile.
Don't you just love it when some people like to dish it out but can't take it back? Nothing new there for capitalist exploiters making a fast buck
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Answer :- Build more houses. QED
[qsan1x], Stockton-on-Tees
I've a better idea...let's invade France and solve all our problems. We'll be back in the good books of the rest of the world; all the thugs will be forced to join up so the streets will be safer; lots of people will be killed so the polulation will drop, and France will surrender after 90 seconds so we'll have a lot more land to build on anyway.
;)
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I remember the good old days when house-buying was all about Location, Location, Location...
Nowadays it's all dictated by Immigration, Immigration, Immigration!
Shut our borders NOW and give the indigenous population a chance to live the lives that our grandparents fought so hard for us to enjoy!
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A little note for all the rubbish being spouted about immigrants. It's hardly the fault of asylum seekers if the government doesn't allow them to work while their applications are being processed, and whilst many British-born benefit claimants are sitting on their backsides doing nothing, there's plenty of migrant workers out cockle picking for less than £1 an hour. Our immigrant workers here have a stronger work ethic and a can do attitude. They put the unemployed British to shame frankly.
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I just love all these comments moaning about immigrants, as if they were to blame for the shortage of housing. If it weren't for Polish builders, who exactly do you think would be building the new houses?
[DisgustedOfMitcham2
British builders?
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go comment on that with your bigoted nonsense instead of getting other contributors' comments removed for replying to your bile.
Don't you just love it when some people like to dish it out but can't take it back? Nothing new there for capitalist exploiters making a fast buck
[koshmar2005], Elgin, United Kingdom
Envious bile like this comment goes to show that the great unwashed lazy socialists who despise the wealth creators are still living in their cloud cuckoo land of hate and envy
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do a google on buddhism consequences of greed, as always there will be huge amounts of money to be made when the credit mountain vanishes and the crash is well underway. if you don't sell now or haven't all ready your doomed
this is exactly how it works, buy at bottom of market, wait 15 - 20 years, sell at top and start all over again. and you can pass on the profits you make to your kids, to give them a start. it's all about timing
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"Supply and demand dictates the price of houses. If there is more on the market than is required, the price drops, not enough to satisfy demand and the price goes up.
Answer :- Build more houses. QED
[qsan1x], Stockton-on-Tees"
In that case kick out all the benefit dependent housing grabbing immigrants back dated 10 years. It would allow those who were born here a chance of getting that house, reduce the benefit deficit, cut the strain on the NHS. Etc. The Aussies would do it...
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Buy to let investors are not parasites, they are simply trying to provide for themselves by taking a risk that there will not be a property crash instead of investing money into pensions which have been decimated by Browns thefts from pension funds and his economic mismanagement.To try and be self sufficient should be the duty of all, and to call people parasites for doing so is ridiculous.I blame the culture of laziness and expectation of something for nothing by those who do not want to work
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"Well I do actually, but I don't exploit the vulnerable like you seem to give blessing to. Please tell me what it must be like to be an ignorant, bigoted xenophobe who gets all his raging diatribe from the rightwing gutter press. Those chips on your shoulders must be weighing you down, pal
[koshmar2005], Elgin, United Kingdom "
Did you read the House Rules? You've broken 2 of the 6 in this one post.
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koshmar2005
oh dear, oh dear. Childish name calling again. You really do have a record for this don't you?
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To all you rightwing, capitalist Thatcher lovechildren, wake up to the fact that your greed is killing the housing situation in theis country.
I think that should read "your industry, hard work and willingness to risk your financial security to earn an honest living is keeping the country afloat and paying the taxes that give the envious their handouts and subsidies
well done!!
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What else could one expect from a Scot, the Land of The Sponger.
Russell Long, Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom"
Nicely put, Russell. I bet you he doesn't own his own home.
P Phillips, Sutton Coldfield
Well I do actually, but I don't exploit the vulnerable like you seem to give blessing to. Please tell me what it must be like to be an ignorant, bigoted xenophobe who gets all his raging diatribe from the rightwing gutter press. Those chips on your shoulders must be weighing you down, pal
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"One of Maggie's bully acolytes. All pray at the altar of St Thatch & pick up your silver on the way out. They should tax you to the hilt
[koshmar2005], Elgin, United Kingdom "
Nice to see you sneering at hard work and achievement. What else could one expect from a Scot, the Land of The Sponger.
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""One of Maggie's bully acolytes. All pray at the altar of St Thatch & pick up your silver on the way out. They should tax you to the hilt
[koshmar2005], Elgin, United Kingdom "
Nice to see you sneering at hard work and achievement. What else could one expect from a Scot, the Land of The Sponger.
Russell Long, Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom"
Nicely put, Russell. I bet you he doesn't own his own home.
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oh dear, oh dear. Childish name calling again. You really do have a record for this don't you?
[BigEnglander]
Isn't it funny how bullies like BE, Russell Long and Mr Sillyname from Yarm don't like it when the tables are turned on them? It seems that according to you, calling xenophobes and bigots what they actually are is wrong, yet it's fine to attack immigrants and underpaid workers, and berate them for not being able to afford housing.
I think Koshmar had you all right. Awful people
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Why do some people despise success and hard work so much?
dont vote for labour tax wasters, Yarm
Since when does exploiting low-paid workers and immigrants constitute hard work? No wonder there is social unrest in this country when ignoramouses as yourself continue to think that making money out of other people's hardships is acceptable and successful. What a terrible lot there are who continue to have these hateful comments unchecked by so-called "moderators".
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If prices fall I'll simply buy more houses at a knock down price...plenty of tenants who are grateful to get a decent house at a fair rent so everyone will be happy
labour wastes taxes, yarm
Another infuriating 'I'm alright, pull the ladder up' comment from an idiot who has no idea of what it's like trying to live as someone under 35 in this horrid society. People rent because THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY. Parasites like you deserve to be taxed to your grave. Your generation is a disgrace.
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"It's taken years of battering but it's finally got through my thick head that this country is finished (people have been telling me for years, but I wouldn't listen).The rest of you are welcome to it.
Steve Butler"
Good riddance mate, don't come back. One less rat...
"Right, must be off as there's another big pile of money sitting in the road
Andrew Carter, London"
Yes, that figures - London, capital of greed & self-interest. How we'll giggle when you go bust or squatters move
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More bleating from hard done to public sector workers. Some of these whingers should try getting off their lazy butts and earning some money. I've renovated 6 houses over the past 5 years as well as running 2 businesses I started from scratch. I own 10 properties and I'm a millionaire at 33 through hard work and calculated risk. Anyone could have taken the opportunites I did but most people in the UK prefer to whinge and wait for everything to fall into their laps. Get over it you losers.
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I own 10 properties & I'm a millionaire at 33 through hard work & calculated risk. Anyone could have taken the opportunites I did but most people in the UK prefer to whinge & wait for everything to fall into their laps. Get over it you losers
[Jim996]
Anyone? You're lying or you've exploited people to make your alleged wealth when they've had no option.
One of Maggie's bully acolytes. All pray at the altar of St Thatch & pick up your silver on the way out. They should tax you to the hilt
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"Are house prices too high?"
Does a bear poop in the woods? Why does the BBC ask such obvious questions?
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council homes went to hard working people who actually paid the rent. (very high percentage of council tennants do not pay any or have heavilly discounted. No one deserving gets them any more. William Lander
William well said ...all the imigrants and others get them instead...... My mother in law wanted to change to sheltered accomodation / a flat only to be told that Imigrants and ethnic minorities got first on list and she'd have to wait 2 years plus !!
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There should be Government support subsidising the construction of homes to sell at less than £100,000. Prefabricated homes could be a solution.
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"Tories convicted Archer, Hamilton, that sleazy defence minister whose name escapes me, shirley porter. I could go on with real criminal convictions as opposed to accusations but you get my point.
LeftLiberal AndProud"
As ever Philby old luv you insist on turning everything into a party political matter. The truth is "New" Labour and the Tories are as bad as each other. But, to be fair, at least Archer & Hamilton etc were required to pay their debt to society - unlike Mandy and Kinnock.
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I think we should follow the French and make it a criminal offence for banks and building societies to lend beyone peoples means. That will stop over lending at 6 x income feeding price inflation and bring the whole stupid inlationary spiral to a halt.
Also a law that buy to let owners can only buy new properties after everyone else has had their chance to stop off plan scooping up of lots of houses.
Nice idea, but your post lacked credibility from the moment you typed "French" ;o)
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"If all the immigrants were sent home then there wouldn't be a need for the English to abandon their homes. Peaceful White Briton, can you imagine?"
[happybrian123]
Because only white people can be British, right? And all those evil darkies cause all the crime in Britain, don't they?
In fact, I bet it's all a filthy Muslim plot to buy up all our houses and force us good honest Brits onto the street.
You muppet.
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"I'm so sick of people moaning about Buy to Let investors (I only own 1 property)
It's just envy of people who've worked hard.
Stop moaning and start working harder."
Capt Dave the Hat l
I work 7 days a week, often 12 hours a day. I earn £14k. And you want me to work harder?
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Now that we have proved that obesity may have a genetic cause, I think it is sensible that the obese should be given disabled stickers for their cars.
Then they would be able to park much closer to doors of the supermarket.
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No, house prices are not high. The prices are dictated by the market. My first house was 7x my annual salary and I borrowed when interest rates were 3x what they are today. So buckle down and stop whingeing.
[will2147]
Typical tory reaction. "I'm all right so screw you."
Well, when your dandy little pad moves into negative equity, don't start bleating to the gov about how you were mis-sold a mortgage & how it's all SO dreadful that you've lost so much money. Greed will catch you out...
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Dear Richie Rich,
Your comments are materialistic and, quite frankly insulting.
Do you think that I have not worked hard for a good qualification? And yet I still earn far below the national average and will probably just manage to scrape enough money with my fiancee to buy a small house in a poor area.
The reason that the house market is in such a state is that thoughtless, greedy, self-centred idiots like yourself have been left unchecked.
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"We have
Greed,singletons,under investment,ageing population,inward migration,development,factured society, parental ambition,increased health of our nation, no wars,no plagues.
We need
altruism,marriage,investment,eutaniasia,bord ers,a society,councelling,a war, a plague.
Lets take our pick
Annon emous"
I vote for a plague - but restricted to the South East where most of the nice houses and undeserving middle-classes are.
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How did Tony Blair buy a house at twenty times his salary?
Just like all the other crooks.
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"How did Tony Blair buy a house at twenty times his salary?"
Maybe the place is co-secured on peerages?
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"if we expelled all the non-productive immigrants living here, there would be plenty of housing for our own people. So let's do that, instead of concreting what's left of our once green and pleasant land.
David Owen, Newport"
Actually, David, hard-working people from other countries are very welcome here. If we deported the British-born benefit scroungers, we'd be better off. Ditto Daily Mail headline-reading sour little Englanders like you.
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Anyone with me in arguing that the "buy-to-let" "second home" mob should be taxed right up the anus??
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""Anyone with me in arguing that the "buy-to-let" "second home" mob should be taxed right up the anus??
Dan Winter"
Gets my vote.
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Koshmar, "fnom" Scotland : GO HOME, silly boy!!
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Damn right! Like all the rest of the landed gentry who acquired their land & property through persecution & exploitation of the common man.
After the revolution I think Buck House will make a great museum to the fall of the aristocracy, while the Windsors & their mates like Westminster can earn a few bob flipping burgers at MaccyD's. A little humility helps people want to help those less fortunate
[koshmar2005]
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"How did Tony Blair buy a house at twenty times his salary?"
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Well put it like this, Cherie isn't actually on minimum wage is she?
Alex Gifford,
Nope, Cheri gets QC’s fees on Human Rights cases via her Human Rights chambers, set up to capitalise on a Human Rights law introduced by her husband.
Also she recently made money from a series of speeches in the US, billed as Cheri Blair, and also took £100,000 from an Austrailian chidlren’s cancer charity for a 1 hr speec
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People start complaining when they earn relatively little and can't afford to get on the house market. Get a decent job and you will be able to then. It's always been teh same.
Nick Jones, Pretson
What a tw at!!
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People start complaining when they earn relatively little and can't afford to get on the house market. Get a decent job and you will be able to then. It's always been teh same.
Nick Jones, Pretson
just to repeat incase anyone missed!!
What a tw at!!
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"Nope, Cheri gets QC’s fees on Human Rights cases via her Human Rights chambers, set up to capitalise on a Human Rights law introduced by her husband.
Also she recently made money from a series of speeches in the US, billed as Cheri Blair, and also took £100,000 from an Austrailian chidlren’s cancer charity for a 1 hr speec
[Harry-Flashman]
Harry - I love you dearly old chap but please, I beg you, don't get me started on our Glorious Warrior chieftain's ghastly, pussy-strangling wife.
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Nope, Cheri gets QC’s fees on Human Rights cases via her Human Rights chambers, set up to capitalise on a Human Rights law introduced by her husband.
Also she recently made money from a series of speeches in the US, billed as Cheri Blair, and also took £100,000 from an Austrailian chidlren’s cancer charity for a 1 hr speec
[Harry-Flashman]
Thats right, we introduced the HR act so Cherie could make a mint! Frankly your accusations are becoming flimsier and more bizarre as the day goes on.
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"Get a decent job and you will be able to then. It's always been teh same."
Nick Jones, Pretson
"What a tw at!!"
[ElOraculo]
It's a sunny Friday afternoon and I'm in the office. I'm skint. I've been forced to leave my beloved country by greedy landlords and criminal scum. It looks like I'll never save up enough cash to buy a house in London or be able to return to teaching.
And in spite of all that, this comment has me laughing out loud.
Thanks, ElOraculo, you're a godsend.
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[Harry-Flashman]
Thats right, we introduced the HR act so Cherie could make a mint! Frankly your accusations are becoming flimsier and more bizarre as the day goes on.
LiberalLeft AndProud, United Kingdom
So, which part of Harry's statement wasn't true?
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Harry - I love you dearly old chap but please, I beg you, don't get me started on our Glorious Warrior chieftain's ghastly, pussy-strangling wife.
Robert Sharr
BillyBob, (your billy persona not coming out to play today?) Funny how you and your chums are the first to complain about personal insults yet love to hurl them all over HYS.
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The HR act was passed because it was the right thing to do and enshrined the convention on HR in UK Law.
LeftLiberal AndProud
Right for who though?
Dave Blake
Not for me or anyone I know.
Cheri Blair (to pick a name at random) has made truckloads of cash out of it, but our country is poorer.
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Cheri Blair (to pick a name at random) has made truckloads of cash out of it, but our country is poorer.
[Harry-Flashman]
Well, please be fair people, she has to get the money for the plastic surgery from somewhere doesn't she?
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Oh have a suggestion here: lets kick all the chavs out of their C/H and sell it the tax payers or a key workers. Any thoughts ?
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I love high property prices. I am German, married to an Italian and live in central London. Prices are ludicrously high which is great for us. Most English residents have sold to other Europeans or Americans and moved out to the townships; since most highly paid city jobs are also taken by the same, very few English move into our area. So we are surrounded by fellow Europeans. And one day, we will sell our house for a hefty profit and move home where prices have been stable. We win, you lose.
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"Written with characteristic German charm."
Alex Gifford, London, United Kingdom
Your comment was written with characteristic British xenophobia.
Alex, the war is OVER. So OVER.
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If my IQ was 85 in 1986 and house prices went up does that mean my IQ is now over 130?
What is a "stamp duty"? Can I get one?
Theresa Greene, Reading, Berks.
Back in "the day" we used to stamp on immigrants, gays and lefties. We would refer to it as our "stamp duty".
My IQ is 50.
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Foreigners hmmmm, just out of interest where are you from?
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..I might be able to find an afordable place to live AND teach your squalid children how to read.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Vostok 1
Go back to Russia Yuri
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TEN TRILLION foriegners came to this country in the last 5 years. They all have 3 jobs AND get £500 a week in benefits AND a free 5-bedrrom house. Good decent british workers have to eat fish-heads and live in the sewers so that Labour run inner city councils can pursue their lunatic ambition of converting Britain into a hand-out hotel for any foriegner who wants it.
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nurses and teachers in this country are stupid and lazy
why on earth should they get houses? we should sack the lot of them and start deporting them
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"A property ... is not a human right.
Andrew H,
I think you'll find it is.
"A decent home at an affordable cost is something which everyone has the right to expect, & it is the responsibility of Government to ensure it is available".
- The UN Declaration on Human Settlement, 1976.
Mark Smith,"
Young man, I do not wish to be rude; but quoting meaningless, 30-year-old drivel from a bunch of self-serving bureaucrats suggests you need sheltered, rather than affordable, housing.
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What you're doing is a classic left-wing argument-closer. Talk about immigration? You're a racist. End of argument. Try engaging with the debate. Russell Long, Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom
OK... In the last ten years more people have left the UK to work than have come to the UK to work. Therefore we have a net DEFICIT in population. Immigration is only a problem if you don't like people who are foriegn.
Ergo to worry about immigration is a sign of racist tendencies.
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"Yes, that figures - London, capital of greed & self-interest. How we'll giggle when you go bust or squatters move in..
[koshmar2005], Elgin, United Kingdom "
And how we'll giggle when you guys vote for Scottish independence and all those public sector jobs up there have to come south (every time I phone HM Revenue&Customs a Scottish voice answers). At least you'll have got rid of greedy Londoners. Don't know who'll pay the taxes to pay your dole and welfare though..
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