2024 Election thread
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Some guy who fancies running a café rents the unit from Network Rail. NR will let the unit to anyone. My local station has no café but does have a dentist surgery. He's probably the only café at the station and his rent will be high so he can be pretty bullish with his bacon sarnie prices. It's completely unrelated to the people running the trains and has nothing to do with 'the state of the country'.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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It's almost like I used it as not-so-serious way to illustrate the general sh!tness of relying on public services on a regular basis. Hence the use of the word, microcosm.
Miserly little bacon sarnies, rather than overloaded with thick bacon - I don't think it's a huge stretch to understand the metaphor, as it pertains to inflation, cost-of-living and the associated shrink-flation, but fill ya boots.
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It's pretty tenuous at best. It's not really a surprise that transport, both public and private, is severely disrupted after a couple of winter storms and widespread flooding.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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That's going to make it fun for my daughter travelling back to Gants Hill from Paddington with a large suitcase. At least she can do most of it on the Lizzy Line.
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EL is running fine now. Was really just last night when it was blowing a gale.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Hadn't noticed the extra page, I was responding to Rick's post about the strikes. She should be fine getting as far as Ilford or Stratford on the Lizzy Line but the last bit to Gants Hill will either be a large case on a bus or an Uber (unless she gets back before the strike starts).
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FWIW I prefer thin bacon to the thick stuff in my rolls (but still like lots of it).
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I am also far from convinced that one commuter's below par bacon buttie is down to the nasty tories 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yebbut, bacon is in short supply after Thick Lizzy's opening of new Beijing pork markets. Innit.
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I never made any claims about 'the state of the country'.
I was pointing out that over-priced sarnies are a result of a free market. Thanks for confirming that.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
There is plenty of Gammon in the UK though.
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So you're saying it is the nasty Tories fault? Okaaaay....
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Apologies, I thought you were talking about the trains rather than the sandwich.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Great post 😂
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Its all the boomers refusing to go into care homes.
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Is there a similar graph for childbirth in 25-34 year olds? 😉
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Odd that outer london starts as one of the highest rates in 1984, did they used to kick out the old folk back then?
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Eh?
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I presume they used the word "families" intentionally and for a reason.
I also think people are having children later.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
i was initially thinking similar as I’d misread it. The graph is the percentage of those there are in that age group who own a home so it doean’t really matter how big the group is.
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Wasn't the population of London actually in decline in the 70's? It would mean there was plenty of space to be moved in to at the beginning of the 80's.
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Later and fewer.
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Yeah, I got caught out by percentages. Children and housing are the two biggest expenses in life so something has to give. What's the solution? Half housing values? Fine by me. No solutions, no point banging on about it.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Loosen up the regs so we can build houses where people want them. Lots of them. Which includes making it much more difficult for local residents to successfully object.
Your attitude is exactly why under 35s get so angry.
"no solution, no point banging on about it". Such a lazy, pathetic "oh well, I had it good" argument. Useless.
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Under 35's were complaining about the same things when I was under 35.
I've been reading in the last few days about a huge housing crisis in Australia, and a similar one in Canada - where they have tried to limit foreign purchases. Average house price in Canada - which isn't short of space - is now about £500k. Not sure if that carves out apartments, but even so. And if you look around the interweb at prices in the US, prices are also eye opening - 1/4 acre plots with services but no house $250k, in Suicide Avenue, East Bumfuk, Nevada - that sort of thing.
I think the point, RC, is that it's not just the UK it is pretty much everywhere, regardless of building codes or land availability.
So, what's your solution? It isn't repeating the problem by way of graphs.
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I posted recently that it's a common international problem. Presumably if there were an easy solution then someone somewhere in the world would have come up with it by now.
The 'change the rules so they can build as much as they want where they want' proposal from Rick does seem overly simplistic and optimistic.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Loosen up regs will not be sufficient, and will take decades to make significant effect.
It's part of the solution right enough, but not enough.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Firstly, yes it is absolutely a problem elsewhere but it is also more acute in the UK.
Secondly, because it is a problem elsewhere, does not make it an unsolvable problem. Across the west there has been insufficient housebuilding to accommodate the growing populations. I'm not talking nationally either, but also in terms of where the work is and where people want to live; individual towns and cities.
If you do not increase the amount of abodes where people want to live, the prices will keep going up etc etc.
That's all that's happened. You lot love to say " oh this is a SE problem" but the prices are telling you what the demand is. They're not veblen goods. The price is instructive of the intersection of price and demand. Most people want to live near where they work and SE is where the work is. FWIW, it is not necessarily any more affordable to live in an area with extremely low housing prices, as the work available is also not there - hence the low price to begin with!
It is really that simple.
The complexity is that for the last 80 years the west has governed on premise that the individual need trumps the collective need, and in other areas of life I think that's eminently sensible. Plainly however, this experiment when it comes to housing has not worked, and so they need to change the housebuilding and planning system to allow housebuilders to build where there is demand for properties.
That includes making it possible to improve the density of existing residential spaces.
The number of homes in England grew 1,819,200 between 2010/11 and 2019/20, an increase of 8.0 per cent. Over that same period, England’s population grew by 4,090,600. That means for every new home built, the population rose by 2.25.
That ratio varies across the country, however. In the North East, where population growth has been slower, there were just 1.3 new people for every new home built. In London, where housing delivery has long trailed short of need, the population rose by 3.4 for every new home.
This mismatch of housing supply and need has had drastic consequences for affordability.
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