Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
The private renters will get a huge discount and it will be funded by making private landlords sell off their most expensive properties. Seems like joined up thinking to me.
Sounds like something straight out of the Pol Pot playbook to me. Utter and total bonkers madness. Disappropriation of private property. How to collapse an economy in easy steps.
There's plenty of appropriation of private property by the government already. For example land can be appropriated for planning purposes. The important thing is whether the appropriation is subject to appropriate compensation. Corbyn's proposal seems to be that landlords would get the full market value of the property, with the state "topping up" the payment of the tenant, using funds raised by stopping a "tax break" (actually, bog-standard tax treatment of interest payments, but hey-ho) to landlords. It's not the same as compelling the landlord to sell at sub-market value, which would stink much more of misappropriation.
I think a bigger problem with the proposal is that it would discourage landlords from taking on long-term tenants for fear of RTB being invoked, which would damage security of tenure.
Yes the last sentence sums it up. People would head for the hills and flee the market. Honestly even the thought of these numpties implementing these kind of idiocies just makes me want to stick all my old age savings in Swiss Francs out of the reach of buggering about by the likes of Corbyn, Miliband, and Brown. They just don't seem to live on the same planet I'm having to make a living on frankly.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
ITV news: sounds like tonight's Greece / EU meeting has unexpectedly hit the buffers.
Reuters
Greece and EU finance ministers hit a new impasse on Wednesday as creditors accused Athens of failing to compromise despite a looming default next week that risks bouncing it out of the euro.
Counterintuition of the day: suitably edited, I think the policy is actually a better fit for the Conservatives than Labour. I think Cameron should consider nicking it off Corbyn.
There are disadvantages of living in a society with high proportion of owner occupation. Labour markets are more flexible when renting is the norm, so home ownership can lead to higher levels of structural unemployment.
But there are advantages of living in a "property-owning democracy" too, as any Conservative knows. Something that creates conditions for more people to own their homes is a particular bonus for the Tories, since one of their longer-term threats is the decline in home ownership. People who are have the security of owning their own residence, and are empowered by that, are more likely to take on a middle-class Tory-voting mindset. Besides, the economy as a whole would be better off if incentives could be put in plce to divert a decent chunk of BTL investment to more productive causes.
I agree. Within the Corbyn craziness is the germ of a good idea. The problem though is not the buy-to-let; it is the buy-to-speculate. As Charles has pointed out in the past, many of the posh flats in his area are occupied only a few weeks a year. At least the buy-to-lets are providing homes to people.
I'm glad you said that doc, I was wondering if by seeing the positives in the idea I might be going mad. At least I am not mad and alone.
I'd be interested to know whether the BTL ("BTS") bubble makes us more vulnerable to a housing crash than before, or whether it shields us somewhat - it certainly creates a fairly large class of people who would be utterly ruined by falls in the value of housing, particularly when they need to remortgage parts of their portfolio. On the other hand, less people own houses as a result of it, so in some sense fewer people would be directly affected. My inclination is that anything that encourages speculation must have a built-in hazard of bringing us back to earth with a bump, but I would welcome a better-informed opinion.
A lot would depend on gearing. Once the value of a property is decreasing, the % of a mortgage shoots up. Once the asset is worth less than the mortgage there would be distress sales. Both BTL and BTS would disappear.
The price crash would free a lot of property for sale. It would scare off international "safe haven" buyers. On the other hand it would ruin a lot of individuals, possibly also a fresh banking crisis. It would also put off a lot of potential buyers!
Ending tax relief for debt interest on property (or any asset) may be a useful mechanism.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
The private renters will get a huge discount and it will be funded by making private landlords sell off their most expensive properties. Seems like joined up thinking to me.
As a Labour Supporter he gets my vote.
It may be an unfair policy for some but at least its a policy... and you really shouldn't have one rule for those lucky enough to qualify for a housing association or council house and another for those who don't..
Ever wonder why Labour lost the GE?
Note my use of the word supporter rather than voter... However, I'm merely ensuring that the utterly insane housing association proposals are extended to their (il)logical end point. Its actually funny watching the Tories having to implement plans they only created to be able to drop in coalition talks...
What is utterly insane are housing associations in London sitting on properties worth £750k+ when the rebuild cost is £200k. it just needs a forceful approach to brown land and multiple skyscrapers to provide London with the housing stock that it needs. Housing Associations lack the drive to tackle it. RTB and selling off their top end properties will shake them up. But they could always wake up and take sound financial decisions and sell their top end themselves.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Cambridge Dictionaries seems to agree with the White Rabbit, which is also the way I've always done it.
I could find any reference to "faithful friend sincerely sir" or "faithfully friend sincerely sir" on google, so I can't see that it could have been a common mnemonic. Apparently a widely-used mnemonic is ""S and S never go together" but I can't recall seeing that before, either.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
The private renters will get a huge discount and it will be funded by making private landlords sell off their most expensive properties. Seems like joined up thinking to me.
Sounds like something straight out of the Pol Pot playbook to me. Utter and total bonkers madness. Disappropriation of private property. How to collapse an economy in easy steps.
There's plenty of appropriation of private property by the government already. For example land can be appropriated for planning purposes. The important thing is whether the appropriation is subject to appropriate compensation. Corbyn's proposal seems to be that landlords would get the full market value of the property, with the state "topping up" the payment of the tenant, using funds raised by stopping a "tax break" (actually, bog-standard tax treatment of interest payments, but hey-ho) to landlords. It's not the same as compelling the landlord to sell at sub-market value, which would stink much more of misappropriation.
I think a bigger problem with the proposal is that it would discourage landlords from taking on long-term tenants for fear of RTB being invoked, which would damage security of tenure.
Yes the last sentence sums it up. People would head for the hills and flee the market. Honestly even the thought of these numpties implementing these kind of idiocies just makes me want to stick all my old age savings in Swiss Francs out of the reach of buggering about by the likes of Corbyn, Miliband, and Brown. They just don't seem to live on the same planet I'm having to make a living on frankly.
They don't live on the same planet.
As MPs they reside in a different world of expenses and allowances, subsidised bars and restaurants, travel schemes and scams to exotic places for 'research'. Not to mention an extremely generous pension scheme, flip flopping houses, and payoffs for losing seats.
Until that changes, these clowns will continue to dream up silly ideas and wreck the existences and futures of those coughing up hard earned taxes to pay for their good fortune.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Cambridge Dictionaries seems to agree with the White Rabbit, which is also the way I've always done it.
I could find any reference to "faithful friend sincerely sir" or "faithfully friend sincerely sir" on google, so I can't see that it could have been a common mnemonic. Apparently a widely-used mnemonic is ""S and S never go together" but I can't recall seeing that before, either.
It was late 60's probably something dreamed up by the teacher then but it's always stuck in my mind.
There was another one I used in my profession for part of a much larger calculation this part of which had to be done in a very specific order or it simply didn't work. The letters were TVMDC.
The way we remembered it was "True virgins make dull company "
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
The private renters will get a huge discount and it will be funded by making private landlords sell off their most expensive properties. Seems like joined up thinking to me.
Sounds like something straight out of the Pol Pot playbook to me. Utter and total bonkers madness. Disappropriation of private property. How to collapse an economy in easy steps.
There's plenty of appropriation of private property by the government already. For example land can be appropriated for planning purposes. The important thing is whether the appropriation is subject to appropriate compensation. Corbyn's proposal seems to be that landlords would get the full market value of the property, with the state "topping up" the payment of the tenant, using funds raised by stopping a "tax break" (actually, bog-standard tax treatment of interest payments, but hey-ho) to landlords. It's not the same as compelling the landlord to sell at sub-market value, which would stink much more of misappropriation.
I think a bigger problem with the proposal is that it would discourage landlords from taking on long-term tenants for fear of RTB being invoked, which would damage security of tenure.
Yes the last sentence sums it up. People would head for the hills and flee the market. Honestly even the thought of these numpties implementing these kind of idiocies just makes me want to stick all my old age savings in Swiss Francs out of the reach of buggering about by the likes of Corbyn, Miliband, and Brown. They just don't seem to live on the same planet I'm having to make a living on frankly.
They don't live on the same planet.
As MPs they reside in a different world of expenses and allowances, subsidised bars and restaurants, travel schemes and scams to exotic places for 'research'. Not to mention an extremely generous pension scheme, flip flopping houses, and payoffs for losing seats.
Until that changes, these clowns will continue to dream up silly ideas and wreck the existences and futures of those coughing up hard earned taxes to pay for their good fortune.
I do agree. I'd stick all politicians on money purchase pension schemes at once given 15 mins of power. I suspect it would concentrate a lot of minds as to how the 75/80% outside the public sector have to think.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
The private renters will get a huge discount and it will be funded by making private landlords sell off their most expensive properties. Seems like joined up thinking to me.
As a Labour Supporter he gets my vote.
It may be an unfair policy for some but at least its a policy... and you really shouldn't have one rule for those lucky enough to qualify for a housing association or council house and another for those who don't..
Ever wonder why Labour lost the GE?
Note my use of the word supporter rather than voter... However, I'm merely ensuring that the utterly insane housing association proposals are extended to their (il)logical end point. Its actually funny watching the Tories having to implement plans they only created to be able to drop in coalition talks...
What is utterly insane are housing associations in London sitting on properties worth £750k+ when the rebuild cost is £200k. it just needs a forceful approach to brown land and multiple skyscrapers to provide London with the housing stock that it needs. Housing Associations lack the drive to tackle it. RTB and selling off their top end properties will shake them up. But they could always wake up and take sound financial decisions and sell their top end themselves.
Apparently Merton council counted the general election results by individual council ward and have made the results available. I thought it was illegal to do so but obviously the rules have changed recently. If they can do it, every other constituency ought to do it as well IMO. It would save an enormous number of time when the boundary changes take place. At the moment a lot of time-consuming calculations have to be made to work out how new constituencies would have voted had they existed at the previous election.
(See Martin Whelton's post on 19th June at 4:57pm):
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
Haha! Thanks to Sandy and Moses too. I had a good giggle at all of those.
There was another one I used in my profession for part of a much larger calculation this part of which had to be done in a very specific order or it simply didn't work. The letters were TVMDC.
The way we remembered it was "True virgins make dull company "
The 12 cranial nerves are Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Accessory Vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus and Hypoglossal
The mnemonic is "Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel A Virgin Girl's Vagina and Hymen"
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
Haha! Thanks to Sandy and Moses too. I had a good giggle at all of those.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
If it's on Greece you could always just change it to "Shifty trades to repay"
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
Haha! Thanks to Sandy and Moses too. I had a good giggle at all of those.
There was another one I used in my profession for part of a much larger calculation this part of which had to be done in a very specific order or it simply didn't work. The letters were TVMDC.
The way we remembered it was "True virgins make dull company "
The 12 cranial nerves are Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Accessory Vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus and Hypoglossal
The mnemonic is "Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel A Virgin Girl's Vagina and Hymen"
It's funny what you remember...
LOL. Thought mine was good but that's just quite superb.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
If it's on Greece you could always just change it to "Shifty trades to repay"
This is on domestic politics, it may make PBers reach for the mind bleach
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
If it's on Greece you could always just change it to "Shifty trades to repay"
This is on domestic politics, it may make PBers reach for the mind bleach
Above or below the mindbleach levels required for the infamous "Osborne's epic strut" Sun cover?
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
If it's on Greece you could always just change it to "Shifty trades to repay"
This is on domestic politics, it may make PBers reach for the mind bleach
Above or below the mindbleach levels required for the infamous "Osborne's epic strut" Sun cover?
Argh - Why didn't I log off before now, to avoid that image before going to be? Thanks a bunch.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
If it's on Greece you could always just change it to "Shifty trades to repay"
This is on domestic politics, it may make PBers reach for the mind bleach
Above or below the mindbleach levels required for the infamous "Osborne's epic strut" Sun cover?
It's me, the man noted for his subtlety, so it won't be as bad as that Sun front page.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
The private renters will get a huge discount and it will be funded by making private landlords sell off their most expensive properties. Seems like joined up thinking to me.
As a Labour Supporter he gets my vote.
It may be an unfair policy for some but at least its a policy... and you really shouldn't have one rule for those lucky enough to qualify for a housing association or council house and another for those who don't..
Ever wonder why Labour lost the GE?
Note my use of the word supporter rather than voter... However, I'm merely ensuring that the utterly insane housing association proposals are extended to their (il)logical end point. Its actually funny watching the Tories having to implement plans they only created to be able to drop in coalition talks...
What is utterly insane are housing associations in London sitting on properties worth £750k+ when the rebuild cost is £200k. it just needs a forceful approach to brown land and multiple skyscrapers to provide London with the housing stock that it needs. Housing Associations lack the drive to tackle it. RTB and selling off their top end properties will shake them up. But they could always wake up and take sound financial decisions and sell their top end themselves.
There was another one I used in my profession for part of a much larger calculation this part of which had to be done in a very specific order or it simply didn't work. The letters were TVMDC.
The way we remembered it was "True virgins make dull company "
The 12 cranial nerves are Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Accessory Vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus and Hypoglossal
The mnemonic is "Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel A Virgin Girl's Vagina and Hymen"
It's funny what you remember...
Or to horrify Plato: Twenty Zulus Buggered My Cat.
Which of course helps to remember the 5 branches of the Facial Nerve (as mentioned above)
Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular and Cervical.
(Incidentally the Accessory nerve is number 11, but the mnoemic works if the Auditory nerve is used in place. The girl is no longer a virgin though)
I think the party website will soon start to update it...at least I hope so.
Currently I am relying on those who are posted in twitter by activists. Therefore we will never know Bolsover nomination given no-body in the CLP seems to have twitter, internet or anything there.
Recap of those found so far:
Wolverhampton North East CLP: Andy Burnham Glasgow Anniesland: Yvette Cooper Glasgow Rutherglen: Andy Burnham Sefton Central: Andy Burnham Eastbourne: Andy Burnham Derbyshire Dales: Jeremy Corbyn Croydon South: Liz Kendall
I think the party website will soon start to update it...at least I hope so.
Currently I am relying on those who are posted in twitter by activists. Therefore we will never know Bolsover nomination given no-body in the CLP seems to have twitter, internet or anything there.
Recap of those found so far:
Wolverhampton North East CLP: Andy Burnham Glasgow Anniesland: Yvette Cooper Glasgow Rutherglen: Andy Burnham Sefton Central: Andy Burnham Eastbourne: Andy Burnham Derbyshire Dales: Jeremy Corbyn Croydon South: Liz Kendall
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
The private renters will get a huge discount and it will be funded by making private landlords sell off their most expensive properties. Seems like joined up thinking to me.
As a Labour Supporter he gets my vote.
It may be an unfair policy for some but at least its a policy... and you really shouldn't have one rule for those lucky enough to qualify for a housing association or council house and another for those who don't..
Ever wonder why Labour lost the GE?
Note my use of the word supporter rather than voter... However, I'm merely ensuring that the utterly insane housing association proposals are extended to their (il)logical end point. Its actually funny watching the Tories having to implement plans they only created to be able to drop in coalition talks...
What is utterly insane are housing associations in London sitting on properties worth £750k+ when the rebuild cost is £200k. it just needs a forceful approach to brown land and multiple skyscrapers to provide London with the housing stock that it needs. Housing Associations lack the drive to tackle it. RTB and selling off their top end properties will shake them up. But they could always wake up and take sound financial decisions and sell their top end themselves.
Private tenants do - of course - already have a right to buy. Like all transactions in a free and fair society, this is based upon the principle of willing buyer, willing seller. You seem to think it works with only half the parties being willing participants. I could draw a crude analogy, but shall not.
Yours sincerely, Someone with a Brain
Pedants corner
Should be "yours faithfully" as you started with actual name .. :-). ;-)
Other way round Moses! You can't be sincere if you don't know their name, hence the faith.
Ha... Years and years ago we were taught " faithful friend sincerely sir. " mmmm.... No doubt you are though correct.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Bring back "I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant" :-)
Is that an extract from 50 Shades?
I've put in a Fifty Shades of Grey reference in the morning thread.
I think I might take it out
If it's on Greece you could always just change it to "Shifty trades to repay"
This is on domestic politics, it may make PBers reach for the mind bleach
Above or below the mindbleach levels required for the infamous "Osborne's epic strut" Sun cover?
It's me, the man noted for his subtlety, so it won't be as bad as that Sun front page.
I think the party website will soon start to update it...at least I hope so.
Currently I am relying on those who are posted in twitter by activists. Therefore we will never know Bolsover nomination given no-body in the CLP seems to have twitter, internet or anything there.
Recap of those found so far:
Wolverhampton North East CLP: Andy Burnham Glasgow Anniesland: Yvette Cooper Glasgow Rutherglen: Andy Burnham Sefton Central: Andy Burnham Eastbourne: Andy Burnham Derbyshire Dales: Jeremy Corbyn Croydon South: Liz Kendall
I think the party website will soon start to update it...at least I hope so.
Currently I am relying on those who are posted in twitter by activists. Therefore we will never know Bolsover nomination given no-body in the CLP seems to have twitter, internet or anything there.
Recap of those found so far:
Wolverhampton North East CLP: Andy Burnham Glasgow Anniesland: Yvette Cooper Glasgow Rutherglen: Andy Burnham Sefton Central: Andy Burnham Eastbourne: Andy Burnham Derbyshire Dales: Jeremy Corbyn Croydon South: Liz Kendall
Does anyone think that Zac has any attributes (other than being a Tory) that would make him a good mayor? So far as I can see he has been on an extended gap year but done nothing of consequence.
'Does anyone think that Zac has any attributes (other than being a Tory) that would make him a good mayor?'
Good Green credentials,opposition to Heathrow expansion which is very popular in London and has obviously done a great job as an MP increasing his majority by 19,000.
Have any of the other candidates got any attributes apart from Jowell who was part of the Olympic organizing committee ?
Fox, absolutely. And if you think he has been on a gap year as a London MP, and then done nothing of consequence locally, you have really not been paying attention to his very clear and very vocal independent agenda. Zac Goldsmith is another real maverick MP in the mould of Douglas Carswell who has been very vocal about putting the local concerns of his constituents and voters in general above party politics since he was elected in 2010. Just look at his increased majority as a result!
Does this remind you of politicians like Boris Johnson or Ken Livingston, or does this remind you of more disciplined 'team players' within our political parties?! Interestingly, his appeal will reach out to a wider audience than his party affiliation as a Conservative as a result. Both Sadiq Khan and Tessa Jowell have come across as far more tribal 'on script' Labour politicians in the past.
Personally, I think that Labour's best bet is David Lammy, a politician and media performer who has really gained experience and improved since his early days as an MP. I thought his recent appearance on the BBC programme This Week was extremely impressive. I have to say that Liz Kendell, Stella Creasy and David Lammy are the three candidates that the Conservative party should fear if selected.
Does anyone think that Zac has any attributes (other than being a Tory) that would make him a good mayor? So far as I can see he has been on an extended gap year but done nothing of consequence.
One of my favourite 1990s songs. Those tracks by the KLF from the early 90s like 3AM Eternal, Last Train to Transcentral, Justified and Ancient and What Time Is Love? are pretty good as well IMO. They seem to have been slightly forgotten these days.
One of my favourite 1990's songs too, I was a big fan of East 17 and KLF too. House of love was another great tune too. Justified and Ancient is another all time favourite of mine as well, and one that is now a standing joke in our house as I always play it full blast on my birthday these days!!
One of my favourite 1990s songs. Those tracks by the KLF from the early 90s like 3AM Eternal, Last Train to Transcentral, Justified and Ancient and What Time Is Love? are pretty good as well IMO. They seem to have been slightly forgotten these days.
One of my favourite 1990's songs too, I was a big fan of East 17 and KLF too. House of love was another great tune too. Justified and Ancient is another all time favourite of mine as well, and one that is now a standing joke in our house as I always play it full blast on my birthday these days!!
One of my favourite 1990s songs. Those tracks by the KLF from the early 90s like 3AM Eternal, Last Train to Transcentral, Justified and Ancient and What Time Is Love? are pretty good as well IMO. They seem to have been slightly forgotten these days.
One of my favourite 1990's songs too, I was a big fan of East 17 and KLF too. House of love was another great tune too. Justified and Ancient is another all time favourite of mine as well, and one that is now a standing joke in our house as I always play it full blast on my birthday these days!!
One of my favourite 1990s songs. Those tracks by the KLF from the early 90s like 3AM Eternal, Last Train to Transcentral, Justified and Ancient and What Time Is Love? are pretty good as well IMO. They seem to have been slightly forgotten these days.
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Greece and EU finance ministers hit a new impasse on Wednesday as creditors accused Athens of failing to compromise despite a looming default next week that risks bouncing it out of the euro.
The price crash would free a lot of property for sale. It would scare off international "safe haven" buyers. On the other hand it would ruin a lot of individuals, possibly also a fresh banking crisis. It would also put off a lot of potential buyers!
Ending tax relief for debt interest on property (or any asset) may be a useful mechanism.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/business-english/yours
I could find any reference to "faithful friend sincerely sir" or "faithfully friend sincerely sir" on google, so I can't see that it could have been a common mnemonic. Apparently a widely-used mnemonic is ""S and S never go together" but I can't recall seeing that before, either.
Dear Moses,
Looks like you were mistaken!
yours sincerely,
Sunil
Indeed
Yours faithfully
:-)
As MPs they reside in a different world of expenses and allowances, subsidised bars and restaurants, travel schemes and scams to exotic places for 'research'. Not to mention an extremely generous pension scheme, flip flopping houses, and payoffs for losing seats.
Until that changes, these clowns will continue to dream up silly ideas and wreck the existences and futures of those coughing up hard earned taxes to pay for their good fortune.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
There was another one I used in my profession for part of a much larger calculation this part of which had to be done in a very specific order or it simply didn't work. The letters were TVMDC.
The way we remembered it was "True virgins make dull company "
I think I might take it out
(See Martin Whelton's post on 19th June at 4:57pm):
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/mitchamandmorden/
'Night all.
The mnemonic is "Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel A Virgin Girl's Vagina and Hymen"
It's funny what you remember...
Night all.
NIght all
Which of course helps to remember the 5 branches of the Facial Nerve (as mentioned above)
Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular and Cervical.
(Incidentally the Accessory nerve is number 11, but the mnoemic works if the Auditory nerve is used in place. The girl is no longer a virgin though)
Croydon South CLP nominates Kendall
Currently I am relying on those who are posted in twitter by activists. Therefore we will never know Bolsover nomination given no-body in the CLP seems to have twitter, internet or anything there.
Recap of those found so far:
Wolverhampton North East CLP: Andy Burnham
Glasgow Anniesland: Yvette Cooper
Glasgow Rutherglen: Andy Burnham
Sefton Central: Andy Burnham
Eastbourne: Andy Burnham
Derbyshire Dales: Jeremy Corbyn
Croydon South: Liz Kendall
Milburn backs Kendall.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CITFnrhUsAA_iQL.jpg
Does anyone think that Zac has any attributes (other than being a Tory) that would make him a good mayor? So far as I can see he has been on an extended gap year but done nothing of consequence.
Bush 15% (12%)
Trump 11% (4%)
Carson 10% (11%)
Paul 9% (9%)
Walker 9% (12%)
Rubio 8% (7%)
Huckabee 6% (6%)
Cruz 4% (8%)
Fiorina 3% (2%)
Santorum 3% (2%)
Christie 2% (5%)
Jindal 2% (1%)
Kasich 2% (2%)
Perry 2% (4%)
Graham 1% (2%)
Pataki 1% (2%)
Fox general
Bush 43% (45%)
Clinton 43% (44%)
Clinton 45% (47%)
Rubio 44% (43%)
Clinton 46% (46%)
Paul 42% (43%)
Clinton 46% (48%)
Carson 41% (42%)
Clinton 45% (49%)
Fiorina 39% (37%)
Clinton 47% (48%)
Walker 41% (42%)
Clinton 48% (48%)
Cruz 42% (43%)
Clinton 48% (46%)
Romney 42% (46%)
Clinton 51%
Trump 34%
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/24/fox-news-poll-bush-trump-score-post-announcement-bumps/
'Does anyone think that Zac has any attributes (other than being a Tory) that would make him a good mayor?'
Good Green credentials,opposition to Heathrow expansion which is very popular in London and has obviously done a great job as an MP increasing his majority by 19,000.
Have any of the other candidates got any attributes apart from Jowell who was part of the Olympic organizing committee ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIui-eKxAec
Does this remind you of politicians like Boris Johnson or Ken Livingston, or does this remind you of more disciplined 'team players' within our political parties?! Interestingly, his appeal will reach out to a wider audience than his party affiliation as a Conservative as a result. Both Sadiq Khan and Tessa Jowell have come across as far more tribal 'on script' Labour politicians in the past.
Personally, I think that Labour's best bet is David Lammy, a politician and media performer who has really gained experience and improved since his early days as an MP. I thought his recent appearance on the BBC programme This Week was extremely impressive. I have to say that Liz Kendell, Stella Creasy and David Lammy are the three candidates that the Conservative party should fear if selected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFvvLuomw0Y
http://www.penkilnburn.com/