Tonight with Trevor McDonald

Chrismojam

tesuhoha wrote:

.......I am not being racist, really I'm not but someone like that, who is British born has to wait a year, while people who come in from abroad are housed immediately. Its no wonder that so many people are trying to get onto the housing ladder as people are coming in from abroad and taking all the council houses. If you work, are British and you pay your taxes, you get nothing.

Oh don't get me started on this!! I've always prided myself on being non-racist and very tolerant of everybody...I've had to be......but I have seen so many crappy things happening.....that I find myself saying alot of stuff I never thought I would...then I feel really bad for it! And it's not just a race thing either....Me and sis have had to jump through effing hoops to get my mum the care/support and benefits etc that she is entitled to.........and near pushing ourselves over the edge at the same time.......while seeing no marks who are in NO WAY entitles to anything...getting all sorts of 'sickness' beneits etc etc......makes me mad.........but them I'm not in the best of moods tonight as mum's Psych had the bright idea of stopping one of her meds...and now the effects are showing..........I haven't got an effing degree...nor am I a consultant psych.....but I could have told him that would happen...now will she get the care/support...effort put in that she should???what do you think?

Alleycat

You can change it, just click on edit on your first post then you can change the title.

ManAtHome

Well if it wasn't the govt who moved the BoE goalposts from money supply to mickey-mouse inflation I suppose we can't really blame them...

mpsavuk

LittleL wrote:

My b/f and I pay £600 pcm plus £198 council tax for a rented flat! It makes me soooooo mad I could cry at times. It's a gorgeous flat and in a really nice area in Glasgow but it's NOT OURS!!!!! I honestly can't see me owning a house in this country unless something really dramatic happens...
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If you do get a mortgage the house still won't be yours anyway...it's the banks until you've paid off the loan!!

"a gorgeous flat and in a really nice area in Glasgow" ....would you still get that quality if you managed to get on the fabled "Property ladder" and mortgaged yourself up to the eyeballs? Probably not!

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Gorgeous_George wrote:

Not sure why it's the Government's fault?

I suppose everything else so why not house prices? How dare they have low interest rates?



GG

ps I hate it when I have a typo in the title.

Oh... here’s one how about the endless immigration coming into the country to artificially keep down wages which also helps to push up the cost of buying a home. Check out housepricecrash.co.uk there is a wealth of information it will really open your eyes.

Also write and ask your local MP just how many 'Buy to Let' properties he/she owns!

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ts_aly2000 wrote:

There's a saying;

"You come into the world with nothing, you leave with nothing."

It’s a nonsense saying I wasn’t born with a silver spoon but the Windsor’s certainly were….

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BobProperty wrote:

Just watched it and what strikes me was that no-one had seriously budgeted or considered the financial consequences of what they were signing up to, with, maybe the exception of the divorcee who had switched to IO just to keep the house.

I think the initial euphoria of having the keys to the front door will be well and truly eroded within a couple of years when the penny finally drops that the debt will be with them for most of their lives… not a very happy future for FCEDUK.

We all have one life and what a devastating waste of it working yourself into an early grave to pay for an over priced sh*thole. What a wonderful country this has become. The irony is most of these people won’t even spend much time in their beloved homes as they will be working longer and longer hours away to pay for it all.

mpsavuk

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Oh... here’s one how about the endless immigration coming into the country to artificially keep down wages which also helps to push up the cost of buying a home. Check out housepricecrash.co.uk there is a wealth of information it will really open your eyes.

Also write and ask your local MP just how many 'Buy to Let' properties he/she owns!

Ruddy hell,reading this thread i thought i was on housepricecrash.co.uk!

Sapphire

That was an excellent programme, and Martin especially made very good sense. He even mentioned 'property !!!!!!'.

There should be more programmes like this - I have a horrible feeling about what the insane rush to buy property is eventually going to do to the economy. It's really scary how people are over-extending themselves without a thought for the future.

I hope that when these people get into deep trouble, everyone else is not going to have to bail them out when they start whining about how they have been dealt a bad deal, etc.

dccarm

LittleL wrote:

My b/f and I pay £600 pcm plus £198 council tax for a rented flat! It makes me soooooo mad I could cry at times. It's a gorgeous flat and in a really nice area in Glasgow but it's NOT OURS!!!!! I honestly can't see me owning a house in this country unless something really dramatic happens...
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£600 per month would cover a mortgage of approximately £100k. You're not seriously trying to say you couldn't find a flat in Glasgow for that??? Unless by "something dramatic" you mean lowering your expectations?