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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I think supply and demand is more complicated than you do. We could try removing all in work benefits and see what happens not pretty I would imagine.

    you don't like the idea that the wages of people with skills that are in short supply should rise?
  • ukcarper
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    you don't like the idea that the wages of people with skills that are in short supply should rise?

    Your off again. The employment market in London is already distorted by in work benefits and to think that you can to revert to simple supply and demand without major difficulties is naive.
  • CLAPTON
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    Your off again. The employment market in London is already distorted by in work benefits and to think that you can to revert to simple supply and demand without major difficulties is naive.


    what are you proposing?
  • ukcarper
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    what are you proposing?

    I have no idea how to solve the problem and as far as I can see nobody else does.
  • CLAPTON
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I have no idea how to solve the problem and as far as I can see nobody else does.

    can't debate that
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    can't debate that

    Have you got any ideas apart from build more houses.
  • CLAPTON
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    Have you got any ideas apart from build more houses.



    all over the world and in most of the UK, building more properties works to resolve the problem of a shortage of housing.

    why do you doubt it would work in London and other shortage areas?
  • ukcarper
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    all over the world and in most of the UK, building more properties works to resolve the problem of a shortage of housing.

    why do you doubt it would work in London and other shortage areas?

    A matter of scale although building more would be a start.
  • CLAPTON
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    A matter of scale although building more would be a start.

    I've no idea what you are trying to say or the problem you see.
  • lisyloo
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    How about encouraging some firms to move out of london?
    There doesn't seem to be a need to have a back office in London anymore for all but a few, but market forces doesn't seem to supply the motivation required to overcome the inertia of replacing or relocating staff.
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