How to feel unwanted - age discrimination?

retiredalso

I tried to sell my house and downsize, after looking, we wouldn't even get our dining table into some of the pokey bungalows and flats.

We are staying put and as someone said, if you can afford to stay, why move.

cavework

We bought our house.. worked hard to pay the mortgage off all our working lives.
Now it appears people of our generation should be taxed for doing just what the Tory Gov under Margret Thatcher suggested at the time?
No I won't downsize .. I paid for my home and no willy wonka socialist idiot who's idea's will never ever touch his/her chosen lifestyle has the right to force me to move by imposing a rip off tax.
As for Social housing ?
People who have paid their rent and probably improved their home at their own expense over the years should not be forced to move unless they want to.
A new clause could be included for Social Housing tenants but there is no way it should be retrospective.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I wonder if they tried to tax us if it would be classed as discrimination.
After all these days they're so hot on racism and sexism etc etc so surely ageism is also illegal and taxing over 60s more because they have extra space would be ageist.
Off course they could get round this if they charged everyone with space the same but then families would have to pay then and probably would'nt be able to afford it.
As Cerwiden says they realy have'nt thought this out have they.
So many pitfalls.

stupidmammy

This is just another case of big brother wanting to control us. Well they will have a big fight on their hands if they try to shift me from my hard earned house. We struggled with two small children and mortgage interest rates at 15% and the horrendous POLL TAX (which wiped out the little bit of savings we had) and 3 Million unemployed and we still have our house. We never had holidays abroad or christmas/birthday presents, no car or nights out. My own children (who have always worked ) are now struggling to get on the property ladder themsleves But while I have my three bedroom BIG house they and my grandchild will always have a roof over their heads.:mad:

seven-day-weekend

stupidmammy wrote: »

This is just another case of big brother wanting to control us. Well they will have a big fight on their hands if they try to shift me from my hard earned house. We struggled with two small children and mortgage interest rates at 15% and the horrendous POLL TAX (which wiped out the little bit of savings we had) and 3 Million unemployed and we still have our house. We never had holidays abroad or christmas/birthday presents, no car or nights out. My own children (who have always worked ) are now struggling to get on the property ladder themsleves But while I have my three bedroom BIG house they and my grandchild will always have a roof over their heads.:mad:

Absolutely. Brilliant first post.

stupidmammy

It does sound a lot like communism, equal shares and all that, did'nt they try that once in Russia?

ceridwen

Stupidmammy

...and I understand where you are coming from the (adult) children.

I have friends who (by now) have adult children - and I know they "watch and worry" about some of the marriages of their children and they have a "fallback plan" in their heads that those "children" can move back home with them whilst they sort themselves out - IF they need to.

No decent parent would want to worry themselves that their child might end up homeless (even if only temporarily) if they did suffer something like a marriage break-up or lost a job and - with that - found they also lost a mortgaged home they had.

zygurat789

stupidmammy wrote: »

This is just another case of big brother wanting to control us. Well they will have a big fight on their hands if they try to shift me from my hard earned house. We struggled with two small children and mortgage interest rates at 15% and the horrendous POLL TAX (which wiped out the little bit of savings we had) and 3 Million unemployed and we still have our house. We never had holidays abroad or christmas/birthday presents, no car or nights out. My own children (who have always worked ) are now struggling to get on the property ladder themsleves But while I have my three bedroom BIG house they and my grandchild will always have a roof over their heads.:mad:

But this is what governments do.
Stop us smoking by raising tax on cigarettes.
Stop us driving by raising tax on petrol/diese.
Stop us spending by increasing tax on income.
Stop us using compant cars by increasing benefits-in-kind.
Stop us flying by increasing air passenger duty.

This is what gevernments are elected to do, shape our lives for what they see as the common good.

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It is a labour idea which will never come into fruition. The grey vote is powerful and we haven`t even mobilised ourselves yet We have had plenty of practise since the 40s and we can jolly well pull together if needs must. I`ll be staying put, no matter what and that is my human right