Meeting affordable housing quotas, as long as it doesn't reduce your profits

[nwgs]

You do realise I meant you?

Me ?

 

[nwgs]

Report it or put up with it. There is no third option.

There’s options, yeah.

 

[denso13]

Let’s have an example?

Priceless...

 

[Deleted member 18243]

In Vienna.........

I keep hearing about what wonderful systems they have in other countries. I read an article about the Swiss national health service which gushed about how much more efficient it is than ours. Are these comparisons fair? Do Switzerland and Austria have open door free-for-anybody-in-the-world systems like us?

Agreed, Bevan would have been horrified at charging nurses to park

The NHS is hugely inefficient and has armies of spongers leaching from it. It spends so fast that it has to monetise everything it can. Did Bevan envisage that? He should have, because when you offer an unlimited supply of something to the entire population of the world you will get unlimited demand.

So are you going to refuse to take the state pension?

After all, you were paying in to the fund so those of generations older than you benefited...

And likewise the generations following you pay for your state pension...

Do you not understand that's how the system works?

I will be taking my state pension. When the time comes I will have paid taxes, in various forms, for over 50 years, in the good faith that some of that money will be put aside; invested and used to pay my old age codger pension. That is how it was originally intended to work, and it is not my fault that successive administrations have been profligate with that money when I have been frugal and prudent.

 

[denso13]

when you offer an unlimited supply of something

It isn't unlimited, if only it were, there would be no waiting lists for one...

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Really useful that. Very, many seem to be touring the streets in Transit tippers, collecting any scrap they can lay their hands on.

They are only here for what they can take Harry.

Thieves who stole lead from 40 churches sentenced after churchwarden catches them in the act

TWO lead-thieves who caused £1.25-million-worth of damage to 40 churches over seven months have been...

www.churchtimes.co.uk

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I will be taking my state pension. When the time comes I will have paid taxes, in various forms, for over 50 years, in the good faith that some of that money will be put aside; invested and used to pay my old age codger pension. That is how it was originally intended to work, and it is not my fault that successive administrations have been profligate with that money when I have been frugal and prudent.

So you do want others to put into this pot you can draw from?

That's not what you said before

 

[blup]

The NHS is hugely inefficient and has armies of spongers leaching from it. It spends so fast that it has to monetise everything it can. Did Bevan envisage that? He should have, because when you offer an unlimited supply of something to the entire population of the world you will get unlimited demand.

Cheaper than the American system thanks to private health care pi claims.

Blup

 

[Deleted member 18243]

That's not what you said before

Making assumptions based on what I didn't say would not stand up in court.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Do you know why though? Don't doubt that you saw the programme but it would be interesting to look at the reasons why.

tbh I can't remember. I think the point the tv prog was making was even when solutions are offered, the locals don't always want to accept them. I think it was possibly more to do with local services already being stretched as opposed to nimby's.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Cheaper than the American system thanks to private health care pi claims.

Blup

Funnily enough I watched one of those 'when tv stunts go horribly wrong' progs the other night. Some of those injured live in the states and cost of health care was mentioned, with one or two setting up gofundme type things to help pay for their bills. One of the UK based talking heads even said 'thank goodness we have the NHS!'

 

[JohnD]

tbh I can't remember. I think the point the tv prog was making was even when solutions are offered, the locals don't always want to accept them. I think it was possibly more to do with local services already being stretched as opposed to nimby's.

If true, those reasons would apply equally to expensive houses

If.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

If true, those reasons would apply equally to expensive houses

If.

What do mean 'if', are you suggesting the tv prog didn't exist and I've made it up?

Ha Ha HAaaaaaa.

Nope, not that sad or desperate to make a point just can't be ar5ed trawling through iPlayer etc to look for the prog.

 

[gant]

Think he's drumming up a bit of clickbait.

 

[blup]

Funnily enough I watched one of those 'when tv stunts go horribly wrong' progs the other night. Some of those injured live in the states and cost of health care was mentioned, with one or two setting up gofundme type things to help pay for their bills. One of the UK based talking heads even said 'thank goodness we have the NHS!'

In his book When I Die, Philip Gould recounts his experience of the US private health care system, it is truly chilling how skewed towards making money it is how, offering treatments that are profitable rather than effective.

Blup