London - the beating heart of our great nation

A._Badger

That's right, Toastie. Now just remind us how many millions the old monster's ideas have caused the death of.

Wookster

It is typically leftie to want to drag everyone down to your lowly level rather than pull yourself up to the successful's high standards.

The're doing it in France with excellent results.

Road_Hog

The Guardian is full of lies, it is losing £125k per day, hopefully it will go bust soon.

Back to London, lived there for 25 years, wouldn't go back if you paid me, awful place.

Generali

Road_Hog wrote: »

Back to London, lived there for 25 years, wouldn't go back if you paid me, awful place.

I ask with respect, why live in an awful place for 25 years?

Conrad

Most people I meet are doing ok and plenty are prosperous. Just ordinary couples where for example one is in sales on £60k and the other is a teacher on £35k.

The mortgage board is full of posts by such people.

This nonsense about 93% of us being down in the gutter is nonsense.


I can drive from the home counties through Oxfordshire, down into Hants and then onto Wiltshire and Dorset and see endless propserity through village after village. Sure some will be up to thier necks in debt by my everyday dealings with peoples finances informs me this is a minority. Even those without savings will often have a second property.

Out with about 15 blokes from my village last night. All are well off - this is just an ordinary village in the South East.
Detached houses, nice cars, good holidays, cautious savers in the main.


Even recent immigrant clients of mine such as a couple who are both agency nurses, are pulling in £100k, so it's absolutely within the grasp of many to prosper.

In my area there are many many large new estates (meaning built in last 20 yrs). Houses are typically £600k each. Most contain couples where joint incomes will easily be £80+. Again nothing special, just ordinary everyday workers.

This same story is repeated right accross the home counties from Berks to Essex, Gloucs to Dorset, Kent to Cambs. Of course there are also people struggling, but this nonsense that only a tiny elite are prosperous is just so off beam.

Do some people here genuinly not see all the prosperity around them?

I'd say we're damned lucky in this nation.

ruggedtoast

Generali wrote: »

I'm astonished. This is like someone calling for a return to Nazism.

Marxism and Nazism are both old, failed ideologies. Millions were murdered in their names and I will fight to my last breath against both groups.

And I will copy and paste slogans and propaganda onto the internet until my CTRL and V buttons fall off.

GeorgeHowell

ruggedtoast wrote: »

And I will copy and paste slogans and propaganda onto the internet until my CTRL and V buttons fall off.

Then you are likely to continue boring the pants off most people here, especially when they are accompanied by the usual Marxist claptrap comments. You probably think it disconcerts many users on this website devoted mainly to financial issues within the "evil" capitalist system. In fact many of us will have over the years figuratively chewed up and spat out more extreme left angry young men like you than we care to remember.

exarmydreamer

GeorgeHowell wrote: »

In fact many of us will have over the years figuratively chewed up and spat out more extreme left angry young men like you than we care to remember.

Do you all still have your own teeth?:rotfl:

Sorry, couldn't resist it!.

ruggedtoast

GeorgeHowell wrote: »

Then you are likely to continue boring the pants off most people here, especially when they are accompanied by the usual Marxist claptrap comments. You probably think it disconcerts many users on this website devoted mainly to financial issues within the "evil" capitalist system. In fact many of us will have over the years figuratively chewed up and spat out more extreme left angry young men like you than we care to remember.

It seems to be you who is angry George.

grizzly1911

Conrad wrote: »

This nonsense about 93% of us being down in the gutter is nonsense.


I can drive from the home counties through Oxfordshire, down into Hants and then onto Wiltshire and Dorset and see endless propserity through village after village. Sure some will be up to thier necks in debt by my everyday dealings with peoples finances informs me this is a minority. Even those without savings will often have a second property.

Out with about 15 blokes from my village last night. All are well off - this is just an ordinary village in the South East.
Detached houses, nice cars, good holidays, cautious savers in the main.


In my area there are many many large new estates (meaning built in last 20 yrs). Houses are typically £600k each. Most contain couples where joint incomes will easily be £80+. Again nothing special, just ordinary everyday workers.

This same story is repeated right accross the home counties from Berks to Essex, Gloucs to Dorset, Kent to Cambs. Of course there are also people struggling, but this nonsense that only a tiny elite are prosperous is just so off beam.

Do some people here genuinly not see all the prosperity around them?

I'd say we're damned lucky in this nation.

The geography says it all really.

I agree that something less than 93% are down the gutter but it wiould still be high minority.