General Discussion
The report is about pensioners being £9 a week better off than working people. You're not a pensioner and therefore not in receipt of the associated financial benefits of being a pensioner. I believe the answer to your question lies there somewhere.
As an occasional poster on here, I do know that you like to get yourself worked up into a tizzy when anyone dares to present an alternative point of view that doesn't meet your narrow perspective. Granted that not many on here do other than toe the party line, which is why this forum has been so dull. Those that dare to raise their heads above the parapet get shot down by the likes of you, ...
Carer, why do you rest your case just because the story was printed in the Daily Telegraph? The fact is that pensioners are better off - it's a fact that you might dispute because you're an argumentative so-and-so, but it's a fact nonetheless. Have a nice day.
Pensioners are £9 a week better off than those in work: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/11944141/Pensioners-are-9-a-week-better-off-than-those-in-work.html
I would love to know the basis on which you assert that the aged get less and less money from the state, because factually you're incorrect. As for the homeless, there's plenty of assistance available for those that want to take that help (if they abide by the rules regarding booze and drugs that the people providing the help quite rightly insist on).
I'm as guilty as all the other occasional posters, but the Dawlish forum really has died from boredom hasn't it. R.I.P. #prayfordawlish.com
@Lynne . the site plan's on the redrow website available for all to see.
@Leatash and @Lynne . The site plan for the 106 homes being built by Redrow as phase 1 clearly shows the number of affordable homes, and these are clearly different homes to the 2-bed "Ledbury" home bought off-plan for £204k. My original point remains.
@Lynne . Are you willing to sell your home for a lot less than its valuation and likewise are you expecting others to do the same? If not, who should be subsidising the buying of brand new homes, or are you saying that the minimum wage should be three or four times what it already is? By the way, home prices have gone up significantly since 2014.
@Lynne i think that you're either missing or evading the point i'm making, which is that the price of brand new starter homes is no different to the cost of similar houses in the streets that we all live in. i'd guess that you, like everyone else, wouldn't be willing to put your home onto the market for far less than the market value, so why should home builders?
