That’s great that argument will help me not pay my credit card bill….Just the concept that "money" is created by chucking a few more 0000000`s on a spreadsheet somewhere - added to debt or whatever.
It's not tangible, nobody can see it, nobody can touch it, it's just debt secured against something somewhere along the line.
I'm looking forward to the day you come on here and decry benefit recipients for owning there own home. It'll make a change from a flat screen TV.Sharing the demand...............
The "house buying on benefits" is truly bonkers and will alienate all those working folk caught in the rent/deposit "trap" but there we are, what do I know?
I'm looking forward to the day you come on here and decry benefit recipients for owning there own home. It'll make a change from a flat screen TV.
The traditional Conservative vote that comes out whatever the weather tend to be older voters. The very same people who will face unbearable fuel poverty this winter, struggle to avoid to run their cars and heat their homes and feel the pinch more than most with raising food costs.Remember that Conservatives turn out and vote while the left just tweet pish and cry in the frothy coffees..............
Er, I don't. Your hero Johnson does.Why should your or I`s tax pay for someone to buy a house?
Benefits are a safety net, not a career aspiration.
Do you think it "right" that a young, working couple gets trapped in eternal rent, unable to raise a deposit, whilst a pair of feckless breeders get a leg up from HMG?
Sorry, it's the wrong way round. HMG should be offering support to working first-time buyers - make work pay.
Alternative, clean fuel is great. No fuel will leave vulnerable people stuck in their freezing homes at best, or kill them at worse. Maybe not such a good thing then?Fortunately, they (soon to be we!) are a more robust generation who will do practical things to mitigate additional costs and many are Conservative through the middle like a stick of rock.
On a broader note surely reduced fuel consumption has to be good for global warming and the environment - can`t have it both ways....
Hang on.... isn't that the reliable Tory voters being culled.Depends if you subscribe to the view the planet is overpopulated by humans.
www.macrotrends.net
Just thought I’d put this here to see what @Essexyellows thinks is the reason that petrol was £1.19 a litre in 2008 when the barrel price was roughly the same as it is now and yet the price at the pump is £2.00 and why the duty on the tank and money that goes to the government is 48%.
Not a stealth tax and all vlads fault no doubt…. Or the guardian reading Waitrose shopping elite, but definitely not boris and his chums.
Crude Oil Prices - 70 Year Historical Chart
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The classic tory reply.
I suspect they are referring to roadkill.
... and yet only half of the latest estimated cost of that fine and sensible white elephant HS2Add in the failed test and trace:
So....£8.7 + £11 + £37 (failed test and trace) = £56.7 billion
That exceeds our entire annual Defence or Education budget.
Tories....the party of Fiscal Responsibility....my hairy ar$e
Agreed. Yet another shitshow that the government are persisting with (whilst also quietly carving useful bits out, such as the West Coast Mainline Link).
I get the philosophical point you’re making. The wealth on a spreadsheet doesn’t exist in a tangible representation of anything of value. But that’s also true of the tin and paper we put in our pockets and call money. It’s actually material value is worthless. But it represents wealth in exactly the same way as a spreadsheet.Don`t forget..................
£370 billion
Total cost estimate for measures for which government departments are responsible (where data are available).
£129 billion
The amount we know the government or Bank of England have loaned or guaranteed so far (where data are available).
£261 billion
The amount we know the government has spent on these measures so far (where measures have already been implemented and data are available).
COVID-19 cost tracker - National Audit Office (NAO) overview
Our interactive tool brings together data from across the UK government on its costs in response to the pandemic.www.nao.org.uk
And folk don`t think it's just numbers on a spreadsheet?
