How’s Rachael from accounts getting on…..

[Justin Passing]

The cost of building a house for the ordinary bloke is quite stronlgly correlated with the labour rate of the ordinary bloke who builds it.

In contrast to the 50's era case JohnD espouses, today's ordinary bloke expects a lot more, than a house with coal fires. He's aspirational.
He wants - expects as some sort of right, a list of electronic stuff, a car or two, holidays abroad as well as a house, and measure hi success by what he can buy..

The land is more expensive, in effect. If you want that house to be near the jobs, the price of the house and its land go up.
In order to fund the electronic stuff and the holidays, you have to get the job in the better area for jobs.
So everyone values those houses more, including all the ordinary blokes.

There's no reason on earth why he should expect it not to be way beyond his pocket. He can't afford the land, as well as the electronics, and the holidays..
It's aspiration which makes him demand more than just a house.

A good brickie might expect to be earning 60k. Houses start around £125k.

 

[Justin Passing]

but since you are an uninformed believer of trickle down economics and thinks cutting corporation tax creates loads of jobs..........you wont have any interest in facts or reality

You're lying again.. Reported.

 

[Justin Passing]

in the UK ordinary people have seen their wages stagnate and their assets decrease whilst the wealthy have seen their assets grow very fast

Yours might, mine hasn't. My father was only a toolmaker, type.
Selected tropes from the past are not evidence of what the future may hold. You propose zero means to change it. I have, several times.
You have to lie to be able to go on and on about the argument nobody is engaging with except you, and your straw men.
You're sticking out like a sore knob.

 

[motorbiking]

Foolish biking is pretending I am young and poor.

so you don't need to..

Imagine living in a country where an ordinary working man could afford to buy a house with a garden to live in with his family.

you appear to already live in one.

Seems you are moaning about nothing again.

 

[noseall]

Seems you are moaning about nothing again.

Not sure how good your English is, but that read like it was a wistful statement rather than a moan.

 

[JohnD]

you appear to already live in one.

I am not an ordinary working man wanting to buy a house and garden where my family can live. A young man wanting his first home.

Neither are you.

 

[Mottie]

Oh dear.

Treasury earmarks billions in spending cuts ahead of Spring Statement

Cuts to areas including welfare will be put to the official forecaster ahead of the Spring Statement.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[motorbiking]

and tax rises are coming.

 

[JohnD]

Not before time.

 

[Mottie]

and tax rises are coming.

I don’t doubt it. Anyway, I exchanged contracts on the workshop today and I’m completing on Friday so if she tries another grab at CGT she'll be out of luck with me. With plenty of small businesses shutting up shop due to her changes to the NI for employers, I’m thinking she might try something with the Business Asset Disposal Relief. She doesn’t seem to have done anything bad for the type of people that voted Labour. Yet! Their turn will come when she's bled everyone else dry.

Oh, partly because of those NI changes, the care home that Mrs Motties mum is in are having to put up her care costs by £94 a week. Nice one!

 

[transam]

All
Over the news she is going to crack down on benefits ??

Very un labour but hey ho

 

[motorbiking]

Surveys show that over 300,000 small businesses are planning layoffs to cope with increased costs. These changes, starting in April, come amid a slowdown in hiring and growing concerns over economic instability.

Job losses to rise as Rachel Reeves’s budget bites

More than 300,000 small businesses plan staff cuts after the rise in employers’ national insurance and the minimum wage, surveys reveal

www.thetimes.com

 

[Mottie]

Yeah, I had something about that from our accountants in their monthly newsletter.

National Insurance Creating ‘Powder Keg of Costs’ - British Chambers of Commerce

82% of firms say the National Insurance rise will impact their business, according to new research by the BCC, in partnership with personal services firm AAB

www.britishchambers.org.uk

 

[motorbiking]

I don’t doubt it. Anyway, I exchanged contracts on the workshop today and I’m completing on Friday so if she tries another grab at CGT she'll be out of luck with me. With plenty of small businesses shutting up shop due to her changes to the NI for employers, I’m thinking she might try something with the Business Asset Disposal Relief. She doesn’t seem to have done anything bad for the type of people that voted Labour. Yet! Their turn will come when she's bled everyone else dry.

Oh, partly because of those NI changes, the care home that Mrs Motties mum is in are having to put up her care costs by £94 a week. Nice one!

The type that think taxes are for the wealthy and call it chipping in and doing our bit for a better society? Really they mean - give me more free stuff funded by others.

 

[JohnD]

The type that think taxes are for the wealthy and call it chipping in and doing our bit for a better society? Really they mean - give me more free stuff funded by others.

Biking uses his fantasy to create a strawman