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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    AG47 wrote: »
    Real demand is only those who can realistically raise those asking prices.

    You can't count demand as how many people would like to live in a certain property.

    All the poor refugees coming over cant really be counted as extra demand.



    the price of property will depends upon the interplay of supply and demand.

    refuges are an insignificant part of 'new' demand : the 'new' demand comes from 600,000 immigrants each year, our intrinsic population growth and general demographic changes
  • MacMickster
    MacMickster Posts: 3,646 Forumite
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    kabayiri wrote: »
    By not buying that overpriced sarnie and coffee you are reducing the demand for poorly paid staff in London.

    You say overpriced sarnie and coffee. I say state-subsidised sarnie and coffee.

    Without tax credits you wouldn't find anyone able to work for minimum wage in London.
    "When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    You say overpriced sarnie and coffee. I say state-subsidised sarnie and coffee.

    Without tax credits you wouldn't find anyone able to work for minimum wage in London.



    clearly wrong
  • Generali
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    You say overpriced sarnie and coffee. I say state-subsidised sarnie and coffee.

    Without tax credits you wouldn't find anyone able to work for minimum wage in London.

    Do young people without kids get tax credits? Most of the time that I go to a London coffee house I am served by a young person with a foreign accent. That has been the same for the last 30 years, since before tax credits or even the minimum wage happened.
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