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That show was great craic - indeed all those shows back in the day.
The PC Brigade wldn’t allow half of them nowadays.
Remember this cool dude?
Around 20% of the housing stock in England is on leasehold land - leasehold applies here in NI also.
My business is on a lease of 999 years so technically I may own the buildings but not the land ( which was given to some lord back in the day) - likewise almost all the houses in the area are built on leasehold land.
No one ever pays a lease fee, & likely in 999 years time the land will have long gone into dust 
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Speaking of that crew - local creche has banned the singing of ba ba black sheep - I kid you not.
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@peterma As usual… You completely miss the point of the post… 20% of housing stock in the UK is on lease hold land… Doesn’t change the fact that only 5% of homeowners throughout the UK own the land their dwellings are built on…
Important assets to mankind for the past 2000 years… Time… Land… Gold…
You obviously don’t understand the value of actually owning land… The Roman Catholic Church does… King Charles III and the British Royal Family does… Even McDonalds the fast-food behemoth understood it wasn’t the building or even the burgers… It’s the value of the land that it’s burgers are cooked on…
These are just a few of the largest land owners in the world today… Throughout history and even to this day… Wars are fought over the acquisition of land…
It’s very telling that only 1% own 50% of the land in the UK… It removes absolute control from the other 99% of the population who are not permitted to own a very important asset…
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Labour’s RUTHLESS Agenda Falls Apart
Starmer employed the services of the NZ tyrant P.M. Jacinda Ardern as an advisor after she was forced out of office due to her oppressive policies over the COVID years…
looks like he followed her advice… Let’s hope that he will also be thrown out of office for following her tyrannical methods… Jacinda Ardern went from New Zealand’s Queen to truly hated and is absolutely loathed in this part of the world…
Most labour voters think they voted for the labour party of years ago when they actually were for the working class… Same has happened here in Australia… Gullible Labour voters are starting to realise what a massive mistake they have made…
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Orwell might be mistakenly represented as a rightist because he was so opposed to leftist autocratic state regimes, notably Russia.
But once you get to a certain level of “success” of either side in imposing autocracy, the distinction between left and right becomes very hard to see in practice. It’s a mistake to see Orwell as a conservative. It’s also a mistake to say that conservatives generally think he was a conservative.
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Weird conclusion - ‘obviously’
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I didn’t know that ! - The one thing I remember about that vile, evil woman is that she sneaked through a Bill allowing “Abortion up until Birth” - or was it “even after birth” ? - not sure
I just listened to the whole of Keir Starlin’s “speech” today and it can be summed up in just 3 words he said toiwards the end - “I WILL NOT LISTEN …”
Sadly I still blame the Conservative Central Office for only selecting candidates for us to vote for - who were already infected with the “Woke virus” - We did have teh choice to vote REFORM UK - but most either stayed away or simply voted against a continuation of the Uniparty which the Conservatives havebecome - Starmer didn’t “Win” - The Electorate were denied any REALchoice ! - But as a Country - we “bit the bullet” and threw tham out anyway.
I’m not familiar with that one - but his “Road to Wigan Pier” is an insightful critique of the “Socialists” - who were disgusted by and contemptuous of their own people and were far more in favour of “Outsiders” .
PS - I disagree with your “Far Right” statement - there are probably a few - maybe 6 or 7 “Far right” in this Country - those who consider Orwell somewhat prescient are mainly moderate some to what you might think of as “Left” - some slightly “Right” - but mainly - juet want to be left alone to run our lives on the basis of “a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay” and to make our own decisions about our own futures without having to worry about being descriminated against by our own Government !
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Absolutely.
Exactly.
Do you? Fair enough - I certainly don’t disagree with anything you said, though.
(I was only really saying - perhaps clumsily - that some on the far right like to quote highly selected comments from Orwell which might make him appear - to the majority who know no better - to have been “on their side”. I’m thinking of idiots like Tommy Robinson. People reading their comments typically won’t know that Orwell hated and despised the far right so much that he gave up his job in England to go to Spain as a volunteer just to fight them, and could be misled.)
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Brussels Receives EXTRAORDINARY Threat
Respect to Hungary’s Viktor Orban for standing up to Brussels, and putting the Hungarian people first!.
Now we know why wannabe dictator Heir Starmer is so desperate to drag the UK back into the European Union… The UK People have already spoken and voted for Brexit…
Hungary and Poland have the right idea to save their people… Politicians in the UK simply haven’t the guts to do what’s really required to stop mass illegal immigration from destroying the living standards in the United Kingdom…
The EU started as a general economic zone… Why is it now dictating immigration policy to sovereign nations… Hungary has Orban… The UK has Starmer… It’s no secret which country’s culture will become unrecognisable first…
MPs ASTOUNDED at 5,000 hotels rooms ‘on stand-by’ for migrants
Starmer paying for 5000 thousand beds for immigrants and while many poorer UK pensioners who can’t pay their ever increasing heating bill will freeze to death this Winter… Think about that for a minute…
Just Imagine if this much effort was put into the homeless … The UK’s homeless.!!!
This is absolutely farcical… How utterly incompetent… The worst was when they said “I hope that the committee can agree to this…” As if what they are saying is reasonable…
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Not just a problem for the UK (309,000 homeless)
Australia too has it’s housing crisis j(122,000 homeless) with 40% low income renters at risk.
Causes: increasing rents, increasing house prices, under investment in affordable housing stock, landlords evicting to either sell or short term let or get more rent.
Ireland too has these problems - some ppl excuse it by saying ah it’s the life they choose!!
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@peterma But… Australia isn’t letting in hundreds of thousands of undocumented illegal immigrants to take charitable food and shelter resources away from less fortunate UK citizens…
Closing down economies during COVID and paying everyone to stay at home has caused this mess… Flooding global economies with billions of dollars caused inflation to rage out of control… Rent, Food, Clothing… The price of everything went through the roof…
The result being that many of the poorer citizens were left behind and are now forced to live their lives on the street… Right across the globe…
Both the UK and United States homeless issues have been exacerbated by their ridiculous porous border policies… Australia’s issue is not building enough new dwellings… Our population density until recently was the 6th best on the planet…
Really… Appears the Irish may have some serious societal and cultural issues if homelessness is acceptable to the masses
Edit: How about keeping this thread about GB Politics… Australia is in no way even comparable to the issues currently underway in the UK…
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You forgot to mention - greed.
The rise of short term lets and their greater revenue has caused many landlords in cities to oust their long term tenants - a major driver of homelessness in cities such as London/Dublin/ Sydney.
The comment re ppl excusing the phenomenon - where did I say Irish ppl ?
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@peterma Once again you put your lack of property knowledge on complete display… You have no idea how the Australian Market operates… Completely different to the USA and Europe…
Most rental property in Australia is owned by investors via Negative Gearing… Look it up…!!!
After the billions of dollars absolutely wasted during the Pandemic… The Federal and State Governments had to ramp up Taxes on everything including property investors who they deemed to be just rich folk… Truth is many are just Ma & Pa Investors trying to build a bigger nest egg…
The Australian Government then jumped in and tried to manipulate the market… Increasing compliance costs… Changing the rental laws so Tenants had more rights than the actual landlords… And finally began adding Land Tax to investment properties…
This increased the cost for landlord’s to provide rental properties which is passed on to the tenant as higher lease fees… Effectively the Governments wanted a piece of the housing market action without actually having to own property…
At the same time…
Australia had 12 interest rate rises in a period of 18 months… Interest on Mortgages for all properties including rental properties increased from 2% to 6%… Apply that to say the average $700k loan… It’s a staggering increase… Some of which has to be passed on to the tenant once again…
It became a perfect storm…
Due to the huge cost increases in maintaining leased properties… Investors have either sold their Rental Properties thus reducing the volume of the rental market or resort to maybe a more lucrative option by leasing their properties via the short term rental market… Neither are driven by Greed…
Just investors trying to keep their heads above water… While they still can…
Increases in interest rates on all mortgaged properties would be the same in all major global cities post pandemic… So whether it’s London, Dublin, Sydney or New York… Higher costs for investors translates into higher costs for leasee’s…
Unfortunately for those who are leasing or renting… It’s economics 101…
As I said in a previous post… You obviously have no idea of how this type of Investment operates… Just another cheap shot off topic post that leaves you looking foolish…
“Ireland too has these problems - some ppl excuse it by saying ah it’s the life they choose!!”
Who lives in Ireland… The Welsh…?? You really should read what you post…
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Doing exactly what you lambast others for doing when they commented on President Trump’s remarks to some religious guys re not having to vote down the line - you pick a portion of what I was saying and highlight that to suit your agenda.
I was clearly speaking in general terms i.e.“some ppl excuse homelessness” - I did NOT say only Irish ppl do so.
You have given me an invaluable lesson on economics 101 - for which I am grateful - also a lesson on Aussie land ownership which will come in handy - could you tell us who owns the largest slice of land in Aus
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On other GB news closer to my heart:
“That does not mean reversing Brexit or re-entering the single market or the customs union.”
So says the PM today after a meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.
The PM says he wants to improve the deal agreed with former PM Boris Johnston - but if not in the single market or customs union then possibly what?
The existing agreement is up for review in 2 years time - but there is little appetite for significant changes within the EU Commission
One possible change which would greatly improve trading, in GB colleagues opinion, is the VIES system.
Presently here in NI when I trade with Europe, e.g. I import machinery from Italy, it’s much easier to route thru Dublin - simply because we don’t have the pre-fix GB on our vat reg, instead it’s XI - yet we are not in the EU.
GB colleagues cannot use VIES & have to go thru a huge payload of bureaucracy.
Would be good if this one thing could be sorted.
Edit: see how NI is termed as not a member state - yet can use the vies system
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Makes sense.
Boris lied about that (as indeed about everything else): he had always said, even back when campaigning for Brexit, that it would be easy to arrange three things: (a) withdraw from customs union, and (b) have no border at all between Ireland and NI, and (c) have no border at all in the Irish sea.
The reality, of course, was that it was only ever going to be possible to do any combination of two of those three things, but not all three.
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Aye T. May’s proposed deal was trying to achieve all 3 - outside of customs union, no free movement, out of CAP but yet ‘frictionless trade’.
That deal was scuppered at the very last second in a phone call from the Tory backers at that time - the NI DUP.
Their problem was that the May deal ensured no hard border but the DUP had sold the Brexit vote to their supporters on that very thing - thus they couldn’t support it - they didn’t have time to read or study the proposed agreement - just the border aspect.
Anyways all water under the bridge - I know Boris wasn’t keen on business but it’s still the life blood of our economy.
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