28-10-2015, 11:10 PM
I think we all accept that we need to cut the deficit, yes?
We cannot afford to borrow more than we earn every single month forever either socially or financially.
There is 2 ways to cut the deficit, we either need to cut spending or earn more.
Personally my feeling is both, the cuts hurt but we do have too much of a nanny state where people can't solve their own problems and so look to the state for help which costs alot more, the state also wastes a phenomenal amount of money with ridiculous rules on who gets government contracts so we end up with government agencies paying £20 for a stapler or £50 for someone to come out and change a headlight bulb. We need to encourage business at all levels from the Tesco/Starbucks of the world to your local independent butchers and massively encourage tourism.
As for who's buying all the million pound homes it IS the middle classes, even in outer london borough in the nicer areas (the places I'd consider living if i could afford it) a standard 1930's 4 bed semi is worth approaching a million. These people get substantial help from extended families and/or end up up to their eyes in debt. Sadly you can't solve the housing crisis without building a fucktonne more houses and the country doesn't have space for that. This country needs less people, especially less of the economically inactive.
We cannot afford to borrow more than we earn every single month forever either socially or financially.
There is 2 ways to cut the deficit, we either need to cut spending or earn more.
Personally my feeling is both, the cuts hurt but we do have too much of a nanny state where people can't solve their own problems and so look to the state for help which costs alot more, the state also wastes a phenomenal amount of money with ridiculous rules on who gets government contracts so we end up with government agencies paying £20 for a stapler or £50 for someone to come out and change a headlight bulb. We need to encourage business at all levels from the Tesco/Starbucks of the world to your local independent butchers and massively encourage tourism.
As for who's buying all the million pound homes it IS the middle classes, even in outer london borough in the nicer areas (the places I'd consider living if i could afford it) a standard 1930's 4 bed semi is worth approaching a million. These people get substantial help from extended families and/or end up up to their eyes in debt. Sadly you can't solve the housing crisis without building a fucktonne more houses and the country doesn't have space for that. This country needs less people, especially less of the economically inactive.