buctootim

I changed the post. Maybe you have earned yours but most havent. I bought a flat in Brighton for £63,000 in 1997 and sold it for £180,000 in 2002. The next owner sold it for £320,000 in 2007. How does that make any sense?

We're ****ing over more than half the population now. People havent earned the increase on the value of houses - its just good fortune of being born earlier. No one loses by building more houses. If I was PM I'd build loads of 4 and 5 bed 200sqm detached houses, pushing down prices at the top and creating not only a cascade reduction in price, but allowing everybody to move up the chain into something better. The quality of most British housing is **** poor despite being so expensive.

But you'd still have the same income, the same debt and the house you want to move to would also be 30% cheaper. Anyway it wouldnt happen that way in practice as you wouldnt be dumping huge numbers of houses on the market overnight, it would be gradual. The Bank of England could easily engineer a stagnation in prices so real values fell by say 30% over 10 years but absolute values remained the same.

Why would it bankrupt them?

Moronic isnt it. Just save the money for the inducements and spend it on building houses.

We used to make half hearted attempts with the Atherley girls on the number 5 bus, but everyone knew the real show started when St Annes got on.

Its a self selecting sample of the smug. People who are smart but struggle to spell illlitterate aint going to post on this thread. Give Bateman the £1.

Your love rival.

He's busy fantasising about Mrs Cross

Nah not me. Jennifer Bidgood and Wendy Rule had the franchise on all the bullying at Bitterne C of E

'Semi' Catholic

aromatic whiff?

His parents probably bought it with the money saved on school fees after he got kicked out of Greggs

Weston Infants Bitterne C of E King Edward Vl University of Sussex

I know its a continuum of shades of grey by all politicians but Cameron does seem to have a problem with ethics imo - Clarkson, Schapps and this incident this week alone.

Down

Thats true but a significant population aren't. I have voted Conservative in the past but would never vote for a politician who deliberately uses deceit to gain advantage.

Its not acting dumb - its conducting an interview with the aim of eliciting useful views and quotes from Pearson that can be used in a story. Having Pearson sit there grumpy and petty because he had lost again was unprofessional.

Now?

If you saw that face lying in an open coffin you'd think he'd had a horrible death.

Some people I know use their maiden name for the professional / work environmernt and married name for home use.

Because there were no better candidates? Backs up what VFTT is saying.

Everyone knows it should be the 'The Best Minister Peadophile Conspricy'

The main problem is not whether MPs salaries are about right or not - its the fact that the those at the top of the pile have been awarding themselves higher and higher salaries which are ever greater multiples of those at the bottom - with zero link to the actual performance of their companies. A healthy global economy needs demand. You get more demand (and therefore more trade and employment and tax revenue) if you spread £1bn between 1million people than if you give it to one man. Paying people at the bottom more makes everyone richer. Paying salaried people at the top more (genuine entreprenuers excluded) leads to stagnation.

Ernie