In a democracy *every* decision would be determined explicitly by the will of the people. I wonder if the technology to do that would be cheaper than paying for MPs...
Granville (enquiring about two unsuccessful burglars): "Did you get a look at them?" Arkwright (up a ladder at Nurse Gladys' window, where she has just appeared in a low-cut nightie): "Yes. One were bigger than the other."
That might be difficult to enforce with the National Lottery system and we'd end up with government policy decided by people willing to part with lots of pound coins every week. I am assuming we keep the one pound per go, as it's a form of taxation that seems well accepted by the general populace, is 100% voluntary, and neatly fits the 'no taxation without representation' principle.
Call me liberal, but I think I'd let the ladies vote too.
We'd be lucky to get £300k for our house which is jointly owned by myself & SWMBO. When we go it will be split between 3 kids if we choose to leave it to them . Not exactly a "Bonzana" is it ?
What do you expect when they spend the money that we in our time used to save up for a deposit on a house on clubbing and binge drinking until their late 20's / early 30's ?
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No, my phone is a LG KC275, £9.99 inc vat (which I can recover) from Sainsbury's, it's still on offer with £1.00 of free calls. It's fine.
OTOH My newly graduated daughter (21, still at home) has a LG Shine she bought off of Ebay for £170.00 (no vat) in January. She says she's ready to change it, because they've brought out a pink one now.
She and her mates go out clubbing up to 3x per week (She has Ca 140 ex school / Uni mates on MSN and they all have a birthday once per year) and spend typically £50-£75 on drinks and taxis per binge each, except when they have to travel 200-400 miles on the train to meet up somewhere, and then there's a hotel to pay for, and birthday presents (typically designer cosmetics) are extra.
This behaviour is entirely normal for those in her peer group, and for other children in our extended family all over the UK. The young male adults tend to travel all over Europe going to away football matches as well as.
It will indeed be a very long time before any of them can afford to buy a house.
YMMV but I fail to see why my estate should be purloined by the state to pay for social housing for them.
In London. I remember seeing on a property program, a bog-standard terraced house in London costing over 1 million quid. By the way, anyone know how much the houses in Albert Square would cost it it was real ? Are all the dregs of society that live there millionaires ? Simon.
I could afford a terraced house in Chiswick on one (pretty average) salary in the mid sixties. Prices are now so out of reach for 30 somethings that there's no point thinking about domesticity. Remortgage your house, give them 50K each, and you might see some grandchildren before you're too old to kick a ball around :-)
Yup! Kids in their 20s living with their parents or clubbing together to get on the property ladder. I'm also concerned about their expectations of later life. I, like many others contributed to robust pension schemes and am now enjoying the fruits. The opportunities are not there for them - apart from the majority in the state sector, which will have to be addressed. They see my generation having fun in old age and anticipate it will be the same for them, failing to realise the significance of the degradation of pension schemes which is likely to hit them hard.
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