I have a date with Netflix coming up. It's getting serious
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Poor Mika
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Less than 10% of the land in the UK is urbanized. I agree that greenfield building is a problem in rural communities, like in Wales. But it's the only feasible way out of the housing crisis that much of England has. The controls on it should be decentralized, and certain areas need greenfield building.
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Given that the UK is about to enter into a high-risk of deflation because the Eurozone's Quantitative Easing program is essentially about dumping their own deflationary problem on the people who export to them (Namely, the UK), combined with the implosion of oil prices, a bit of inflation won't actually be a bad thing.
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Why are you in favour of that? I see what greenfield building does first hand, day-to-day. I actually think it's a very sad and intrusive issue that conflicts our society.
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Actually, it will just bring about a rise in everyday commodities as well as housing bills.
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Cutting red-tape, relaxation of planning laws specifically. And possibly allowing some Greenfield building. All of which I am in favour of.
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And how are they going to fund 200,000 new houses per year? That's an awful lot of land, resources and staff.
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That's why they're raising it in small amounts, Shivv.
And given how much below inflation the rises to the minimum wage in recent years have been (Even the Tories were calling for Osbourne to raise it £7 when he settled at £6.50), it's about time it was raised again.
that will be the day he realized he was, indeed, a capitalist.
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Reminder that Connor's not gonna vote
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There's literally no other reason other than to grab headlines and some dumb votes. It'll do nothing but create redundancies and cause smaller businesses to foreclose
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Technically Connor & Kerry are the ones who made this about politics ^_~
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Buy-to-Let mortgages, where people get mortgages so they can buy homes and then instantly let them out, are one of the biggest drivers of housing booms and inflationary housing prices that there are. A ban on them will make it much easier for first-time-buyers to get on the housing market. Coupled with the Labour promise of building 200,000 new houses per year (many of them as actual new council houses) and you finally have a plausible solution to a housing crisis that the UK has been having for nearly 30 years.
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Oh God Mika please
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I know that, but that was the closest thing I could find to it on Google in such a short time of looking.
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By councils in debt, I meant the actual councils, not the people in them.
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Depends where you live. Living in the South-East, and having friends on minimum wage... it's a joke. The costs of living in this part of the UK are ridiculous, and they can afford barely anything.
Oh, another VERY good Labour policy is a banning on Buy-to-Let mortgages. One of the best policies they have, frankly.
Notable mention is Rhondda Cynon Taff area being one of the hotspots. The valleys are completely overrun by poverty. I think the last thing they need is an increase in council tax. It would be interesting to see what changes would be made to the Welsh Assembly, particularly their relationship with the European Union, should Labour be appointed. It's just somewhat irksome that I don't really have the time to give this an extensive evaluation at present.
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Is this thread about valentines day or did I miss something
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The minimum wage doesn't really need to rise and it's just being used as a vote-puller
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Not entirely true. The councils with the most debt are actually quite often those in the better places, but have spent beyond their means. The ones in poor areas get government and also EU grants. It's the ones in the middle-areas that will be hit hardest.
