No, coming at it from the point that you’ve been critical about buy to let in the past, and the fact that it pushes house prices up - as well as the fact that it pushes up rental prices. This is a start to tackle these issues.
It is yet another step in the right direction. The restriction of tax relief on buy to let interest payments in the last budget will be much more effective. They should just crack on and scrap it altogether.
At least they’re starting to do something about it. Well done to the Conservative party.
Originally posted by @pap
The Tories posing another question that no-one should have to answer. Is it possible to live with no money for 42 days?
Design flaws in the government’s troubled universal credit system are leaving vulnerable claimants hundreds of pounds in debt and dependent on food banks, according to a study of how the system is working in practice.
The main cause of difficulty is a built-in delay to universal credit which requires claimants to wait at least 42 days before receiving a benefit payment. This has left some claimants penniless, stressed, forced to borrow cash to pay rent or utility bills and struggling to buy food.
There’s always Wonga. Adrian Beecroft, Tory donor with a major stake in the firm, must be laughing all the way to the bank.
There are particular folks with this sort of smug look and brass neck to consider 2500%+ APRs appropriate for any leneder for whom the word Cunt was surely invented?
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The best thing about the Conservatives relationship with Adrian Beecroft, in view of the Wonga thing, is that they thought him to be an appropriate person to draw up changes to employment legislation.
Interested to see how the proposed changes to Student Loans pans out. This is really effing shoddy, and I hope a legal challenge does indeed go ahead.
Can you imagine taking out a loan from the bank, and then 3 years later the bank decides actually we are going to change the contract you signed and make you pay us more. There would be outrage in the media (rightly so) and the bank would be hauled up in front of the regulator (again, as they should be). Of course, different story when its the Govt picking on students right?
I’ve said before, and was fucking laughed at, this country is actively hostile to it’s young people.
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It’s short sighted and counterproductive. It will deter some people from going in the first place, especially those on lower incomes, but it’s means-tested so it’ll essentially hit everyone that isn’t fucking loaded enough not to worry about it.
Juvenile Unit #1 gets the same level of financial support from the govt as a billionaire’s daughter. I am not a billionaire; not even close.
Yet, you pay more tax than billion $ corporations.
All together everyone:
~*We’re all in this together*~
Glib comments aside, your first point is important. I think that is what they want. University for the elite, and those that can afford it. Likewise healthcare.
I think I’ll encourage kid goat to give uni a swerve and aim for a growing sector. Food bank manager maybe.
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Wise idea. I’ve heard from Tory MPs that they are very good at marketing themselves. Nowt to do with people being starving or owt.
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'scuse me pap, can you substantiate the claim that the increasing number of those in poverty and growth in food banks is correlated?
Originally posted by @KRG
'scuse me pap, can you substantiate the claim that the increasing number of those in poverty and growth in food banks is correlated?
I heard that they would have had enough money for food, but spent it on Sky and ciggies instead.
Young people should be sent to the University of Life where they get lectures on how shit everything is.
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and that’s free
Tory fave Katie “Hatey” Hopkins gets the Klingon treatment.
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Fingers in ears again Pap, eh?
Feeding Britain report on Food banks:
“The other force at work is the addictions that many individuals and families have, but which particularly sharply affects the budgeting of low-income families. We refer here to the size of income in some families going on drugs, tobacco and gambling.”
Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint
Fingers in ears again Pap, eh?
Feeding Britain report on Food banks:
“The other force at work is the addictions that many individuals and families have, but which particularly sharply affects the budgeting of low-income families. We refer here to the size of income in some families going on drugs, tobacco and gambling.”
Nope, just treating the piece as seriously as some of the author’s other works, especially as he’s cherry-picked a 56 page report to get the quote he wants.
I particularly enjoyed “With an icepick in Oldham, Jeremy Corbyn begins the purge” (very Stalinist) and “Let’s ask so many grown adults still back Jeremy Corbyn”.
I’m saving “Ken Livingstone is a hate filled cockroach” for later 
Top tip: read the detail as well as the headlines 
https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/james-kirkup/
Originally posted by @pap
Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint
Fingers in ears again Pap, eh?
Feeding Britain report on Food banks:
“The other force at work is the addictions that many individuals and families have, but which particularly sharply affects the budgeting of low-income families. We refer here to the size of income in some families going on drugs, tobacco and gambling.”
Nope, just treating the piece as seriously as some of the author’s other works, especially as he’s cherry-picked a 56 page report to get the quote he wants.
I particularly enjoyed “With an icepick in Oldham, Jeremy Corbyn begins the purge” (very Stalinist) and “Let’s ask so many grown adults still back Jeremy Corbyn”.
I’m saving “Ken Livingstone is a hate filled cockroach” for later
Top tip: read the detail as well as the headlines
Classic Pap. I was quoting the source as that was where the report was. As you can’t defend the quote - by an independent body, you decide to go at the author of the piece. I wish you’d used the Livingstone one, because that proves my point over yours.
Concentrate on the quote. Are you denying that people that smoke and drink use food banks?
Er nope. I’ve produced the report he refers to in full. People can make their own decisions as to whether he has misrepresented or not.
I’m not denying that people that use foodbanks have other vices apart from food. However, like the author, you’ve grossly overstated the importance of the issue.
If this is classic anything, it’s classic Shirty. Getting personal when the arguments dry up.
Not sure where I’ve got personal on it, maybe you’ve read something I haven’t?
If you’re going to make quotes based on my previous arguments (that you’ve suggested are incorrect), then I suggest you’re pretty sure that those aren’t vices that any have that use them. Otherwise your sarcasm is misplaced…