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Welfare state costs £473 BILLION!!!!
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I can't see your point
If someone has a fabulous pension and loads of HPI why are their kids not going to inherit a ruck of dosh :rolleyes: Not all the Whinging Poms live in OZ
Because the parents might leave it to the local dogs home, they may spend their money (shock horror) on themselves rather than having a big stash under the bed while sitting by a halogen heater in 5 layers of jumpers, etc etc0 -
ThrowingStonesAtYou wrote: »Because the parents might leave it to the local dogs home, they may spend their money (shock horror) on themselves rather than having a big stash under the bed while sitting by a halogen heater in 5 layers of jumpers, etc etc
Yes OK :rolleyes: BTW where do you get the unprecedented HPI from? as you can see from the attached house prices between 1970 and 1980 increased by almost 400% and that included a price correction in the middle, I think;.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/hfrtable/up02043ab.PDF'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
ThrowingStonesAtYou wrote: »Because the parents might leave it to the local dogs home, they may spend their money (shock horror) on themselves rather than having a big stash under the bed while sitting by a halogen heater in 5 layers of jumpers, etc etc
and they might not... :rolleyes:
that must be a lot of jumpers they've bought because they've got on average £90k left over.
the average estate in the UK leaves an inheritance of £90k0 -
and they might not... :rolleyes:
that must be a lot of jumpers they've bought because they've got on average £90k left over.
the average estate in the UK leaves an inheritance of £90k
Tell you Chucky there are two types of people, those that get on with it and those that moan and procrastinate :eek: 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
And we pay 850 000 000 000 000 (bn) to bail the banks!May 2013:0
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and they might not... :rolleyes:
that must be a lot of jumpers they've bought because they've got on average £90k left over.
the average estate in the UK leaves an inheritance of £90k
Ok, so your vision of pension provision in the future is inheritance. You're alright of course, you probably have a fat final salary pension and a house you bought for a sack of coal in 1994, but others don't have a right to determine their own destiny right?:rolleyes:
Oh yeah and those people who don't inherit anything we'll pretend they don't exist and just ignore them when they are asking for 'spare change please'.:rolleyes:0 -
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ThrowingStonesAtYou wrote: »:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
That will be why you have 7500+ posts on this forum and I have 200 then
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Yes, but I only have one ID :rotfl:'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Yes OK :rolleyes: BTW where do you get the unprecedented HPI from? as you can see from the attached house prices between 1970 and 1980 increased by almost 400% and that included a price correction in the middle, I think;.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/hfrtable/up02043ab.PDF
While StevieJ goes to check which toilet he dropped his pair of brain cells in, for anyone interested here is a meaningful dataset for house price data that actually takes general inflation into account.
http://www.nationwide.co.uk/hpi/downloads/UK_house_prices_adjusted_for_inflation.xls0 -
ThrowingStonesAtYou wrote: »
Oh yeah and those people who don't inherit anything we'll pretend they don't exist and just ignore them when they are asking for 'spare change please'.:rolleyes:
Perhaps you may wish to have a go at those people that cheered on the demise of the union movement who did their bit for protecting employment conditions :eek: I notice that the decimation of worker rights doesn't appear to have materially inproved the UK performance compared to other European countries, who have maintained much stronger worker protection, maybe all the gains have found their way into the back pockets of characters like Tramp above 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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