Unbelievable Jeff

Still available to those who earn £50k per year. Be better off reducing this to £30K and then re-routing back into unemployment/disability benefits.

Tyrant? Bloody hell! The fact that I bought a flat, decided not to sell it when I bought a new house and now rent it out makes me a tyrant. Perhaps you're right though, I could remove it from the rental market, and make a single mum and her child pay more for a similar place, and leave my place empty.

I agree market rates aren't sustainable, but I don't really charge market rate. It's worth keeping my tenants over not doing that. My tenants don't claim housing benefit, but even if they were I'd be providing housing for these people. It's the same as someone claiming child benefit, that's my money going into their pockets. I can accept that.

I'd pay the difference myself, I'm not planning on ever selling it. Unlikely that they would be though.

Why, what nimbyism is there here? They can cap it at 0 for me, it makes no difference to me as I'm not planning on putting my rent up. If you offer a simple, no details solution, then surely I can reply in a simple, no details rebuttal, no?

I don't live in a hovel, my house is quite nice, if not midway through renovations. My flat is also quite nice. However, and this is something that I'm not sure how it would be dealt with, but I haven't raised my rent in 4 years for my tenants, mainly because they're excellent tenants and its VERY difficult to find good tenants that don't coat you more than the rent in missed payments and damage. All I can see happening is that every landlord will raise rents over 3 years by 20%, because everyone else will be. It will benefit some, but most will see an increase in rents due to this. Just my opinion of course.

Sorry, I'm not getting your point? I think you need to spell it out.

I apologise then, I must have missed them.

So if you bought a place that was a hovel, spent significant money renovating/remodelling etc, then you still couldn't increase your rents to a level where it would reflect the value of the property?

Happy to do that, it just seems strange that nearly all your 'pictures' have been Tory or UKIP referenced, and none Labour. That does to a certain degree imply a support for them. Perhaps we'll see some more arguments from you against them for this election at some point. I won't hold my breath though.

I don't think anyone disagrees with the cost of rents, but how do you limit that? Say you can only increase rents by a certain percentage per year?

That it is the Labour government that spent an excessive amount on conflicts, whereas this government has only supported Libyan air strikes? I think the Tories are trying to follow your plan to not spend money on conflicts that doesn't directly impact them...

Either that one or a future one (I would assume Vilhena as that seems closer) if not.

To be fair, we only offered air support in Libya, didn't we, and haven't gone into Syria. Surely most of your gripes are with the last two Labour governments, in Iraq and Afghanistan, not the current Conservative one.

Guarantee that is part of a transfer deal. 100%.

At least we can agree on that one.

Fair point on the second part, although it doesn't help that he is the most vocal. I am still yet to see why me saying that those who can afford private healthcare should get it to take the strain off the NHS is such a provocative idea. Perhaps you can explain that to me?

I assume you missed the nuance that it was a ****take at you, hence why I used a stupid phrase, and a scouser. But that's fine. Can you please show me where I said 'So you're in favour of spending cuts' please? Are you not getting me mixed up with Saintsi above? If not I apologise but I just can't find where I said it.

You've got very wound up based on the fact that I said I find it hypocritical that those who preach against the right to make them feel small for not paying more tax, being selfish and not caring etc, say in the next breath say they are paying more than enough tax as they aren't taking anything out of the state. Surely you can see the hypocrisy here? It just smacks of nimbyism. I can imagine that if you paid 45% tax you'd be happy with that tax rate (although maybe a little high, as you pay enough tax as it is), but would want a new higher rate of tax input for those on £200k upwards. Repeat ad infinitum. Throughout this whole thread I am pretty sure that my input has been based on my own opinions and my own views. I'm not trying to catch anybody out, I'm just trying to spark debate on different issues. Not sure where I said we should squeeze public services and the poor more - in actual fact the point I was making with getting those who could afford to pay for their own private healthcare was that by taking extra people from using the NHS then that budget could go much further, quite the opposite to what you allude to above. Also not sure where I said that you were in favour of spending cuts, but perhaps you can point this out to me. Perhaps I don't know what I am talking about, but I can certainly say that the confusing, contradictory position that you take on anything that doesn't agree with your position or personal circumstances, interspersed with the extremely tedious, and not particularly clever pictures you post, certainly does not reflect well on those that veer to the left. Anyway, it seems you've taken this all to heart a little too much, perhaps a case of feeling you're not doing enough in your life to justify the views you have, I don't know, but perhaps we should leave it there.

Exactly this. Which also shows why politics is far more difficult than just saying "Them on the left are incompetent fools, and them on the right are selfish ****s".

Great news. Fingers crossed he may be avilable for a few run outs on the run in.

Yes, I would say most of us are paying more than we'll ever take out, but that's life. I take it you're happy with the current income tax rates as it sits then, and the tories at least have done something right by reducing taxes to its current levels.

Fine, so you'd prefer to pay a higher rate of tax to make up for the shortfall?

All I said was the below, it's a personal opinion! It's not that I think it should be enforced etc, just that to help the underfunding in the NHS and to keep taxes/benefits at a level that isn't killing people those with more could do this simple thing to help out. But I guess we're all not as generous as we like to think.

Sounds like we're all not as left wing as we like to think!