All these damn rules controlling every aspect of life!

[John Cartmell]

Easy enough to search the public records on the web. The names are sufficiently distinctive.

[:::Jerry::::]

,

whooped it up.

So says the (ex?) union official....

[John Cartmell]

Thank you for the good illustration. A failure of management that was typical of the UK and a need to re-invest in industry that North Sea Oil could have provided. All thrown away by Thatcher.

Then all the family silver ran out and, with no more capital left to sell off cheaply ...

.. inherited an economy based on freebies for the rich and bugger everyone else that was running into the buffers.

So he privatised the railways. ;-(

[John Cartmell]

What makes you think that? Aren't all workers concerned about decent wages and doing a job that they can do well?

[The Natural Philosopher]

No.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Th free market is the reaosn hoiuses are so expensive.

Supply, and limited demand. And a low interest rate.

If 100 people are chjasing 50 houses, the price will rise until the inteerst payments on te houses are JUST viable for the 50 most wellpaid of the ione hindred.

Regulation has nowt to do with it.

Barrat superhutches cost about 80 grand to put up.,,...on plots that are wirth 200 grand.

Perscott saez its all those drefful toffs owning all the land.

Its bollocks. Its too many people chaisng too few houyses, and its in the developers interest to keep it that way..

If inflation goes up and interest rates go up house prices will crash.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not if twenty men had to work twice as long to make that lathe...

Appropiate technology. CNC lathes applied to making a woooden broom handle is overkill..

[The Natural Philosopher]

NOt losing is prerttry much gaining staff..

[The Natural Philosopher]

Structural

Indeed. but one could argue that that was becaise we hadn't addressed that propblem hitherto.

I am no fan ofThatcher, but the nationalised industry union thing had to go, and frankly I wish poll tax had stayed. Dran sight fairer than council and stealth taxes...

Apart from that, she was a total bitch. Just as Tony is a total c**t

Plus ca change...

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Most people ain't in a position to demand what they think a job is worth.

[Doctor Drivel]

Land Value Tax (LVT) is the best. Only one tax.

[Brian Sharrock]

She does know her Pupil Master .... don't know whether they're still on speaking terms .... and to bring this discussion back to d-i-y ... he knew 'you can't buy this stuff' in D-I-Y sheds !'

• carved loo seats; wall;paper at £300(?) a roll; etc. etc.

[Brian Sharrock]

Why do you make that statements? No experience in management? Every 'bid' for work will have 'costed' the complete 'job'. A costed proposal will say (for instance) thousand widget using ;-

method 'A' (using existing practises) = £N_1 with delivery in Y_1 months;

using method 'B' (build machine at £X ) = £N_2 with delivery in Y_2 months.

A decision will be made based on these variable and anticipated markets and future (forecast) cost-trends..

[Huge]

Personally, I think you lot need to get out more. She's been gone a *long* time.

Oh, and spending on the NHS *increased* in real terms during the "years of Tory misrule".

[Matt]

You must be on (privately prescribed) psychotic drugs to come out with crap like that.

[meow2222]

Most people are unrealistic about what their work is worth.

NT

[Doctor Drivel]

Lord Hall, too true.

[Doctor Drivel]

Oh you are thick. An artificial land shortage ramps up land prices, hence house prices. An acre of agricultural land can be purchased for £2,000, a complete eco kit home for £20,000, yet the average price of a house in the UK is near to £200,000. Obtaining planning permission to erect a house in the countryside in a country with a land surplus will be near impossible. Few people realise that the high land value is the reason why their homes are so expensive.

In the United Kingdom the average home costs seven times the average annual income. In the U.S.A. people pay three and a half their annual income on a home. In the United Kingdom the average size of the home will be 330 square feet per person, while Americans occupy 750 square feet per person. In the UK, on average, homes cost twice as much and are half the size as in the U.S.A.

[Dave]

Here is self proof that D.D. does not have a superior mind :-)

RAOTFLMAO

Dave

[Huge]

Sadly (for you), it's true. But don't let the truth get in the way of your bigotted hatred of a long-gone politician.