Re: General Election 8th June : Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:08 pm
Sal Paradise wrote:
You want to stay in Europe what does that mean for house prices it only means one thing - increases, simple economics supply and demand. You can build a lot more houses but where nobody seems to want to use green belt so let's congest our inner cities even more!! Social housing is an answer but where do you build it?
I agree with you on interest rates a gradual raising of interest rates will slow down/reduce borrowing but there are obvious consequences to that - a slow down/recession. Its not a time bomb it is much harder to get a mortgage than it was and negative equity is the issue it was as the days of 100% mortgages are not what they were.
Teachers you cannot exclude London from the average the minimum outside of London is c£23k so again I would suggest your £25k is well under stated.
NHS - I agree you either want the quality or you exclude certain areas as they did with Dentistry. Where do you draw the line or how much is enough. I would not be very keen to donate more so the NHS' customers can abuse it even more!! Wherever you have a view that a service is free then customers will equate that value. Perhaps if more was done to stop customer abuse the NHS e.g. people using A&E when a visit to a chemist would suffice, appointments not being kept etc. could run far more efficiently and wasted monies could be paid to the employees?
So are you suggesting surgeons should work more than the 37.5 hour week they are contracted, which I am sure most will do, just to stop them using their skills to enhance their own income. Perhaps you feel the same about what you do for a living?
I agree with you on interest rates a gradual raising of interest rates will slow down/reduce borrowing but there are obvious consequences to that - a slow down/recession. Its not a time bomb it is much harder to get a mortgage than it was and negative equity is the issue it was as the days of 100% mortgages are not what they were.
Teachers you cannot exclude London from the average the minimum outside of London is c£23k so again I would suggest your £25k is well under stated.
NHS - I agree you either want the quality or you exclude certain areas as they did with Dentistry. Where do you draw the line or how much is enough. I would not be very keen to donate more so the NHS' customers can abuse it even more!! Wherever you have a view that a service is free then customers will equate that value. Perhaps if more was done to stop customer abuse the NHS e.g. people using A&E when a visit to a chemist would suffice, appointments not being kept etc. could run far more efficiently and wasted monies could be paid to the employees?
So are you suggesting surgeons should work more than the 37.5 hour week they are contracted, which I am sure most will do, just to stop them using their skills to enhance their own income. Perhaps you feel the same about what you do for a living?
Dont want to derail the Election thread but, staying in Europe with some controls on immigration, which, lets face it, is the only sensible way forward and the EU powerbrokers will eventually do something about it (assuming that the EU continues after the French and German elections).
House prices will continue to rise at a reasonable level, which is a good thing.
The "spike" in house pricing occurred long before EU immigration was "popular.
With some level of control on immigration and especially as we have now voted "out" there is every likelihood of some stability and maybe falling house prices - commercial property in London has already begun to fall.
Teachers pay scales are 22,467 - 33,180 outside London and 28,098 - 38241 in Greater London
Please explain how this can possibly equate to your "average pay" of £37,000 ?? and if you include teaching assistants in the figures the average would plummet.
Going back to surgeons, they should be properly paid to work solely in the NHS and not feel the need to do "outside work", the system is wrong.
