yes, living in the biggest & most expensive city in the country means your cost of living SHOULD be higher. The services provided & used are exponentially higher than elsewhere. The value of housing is severely higher than elsewhere. It should cost more to maintain a life there
3 Bed terraced house, Ancoats, Manchester £335,000 Council Tax B - £1,798 PA
New 0.48% Tax £1,608
3 Bed terraced House, Shepherd’s Bush, London £900,000
Council Tax E - £1,932 PA
New 0.48% Tax - £4,320!
and btw the Manchester house has off street parking and a garden!
“Nearly 20% of homeowners across the UK would be worse off”
Ok so over 80% of homeowners across the UK would not be worse off, in fact likely to be better off.
That’s the entire point, we need to stop making policies for the minority in London.
Do you think people rent houses to just … not live in it ? Imagine if they charged you double when you bought your house because you intended to actually be in it sometimes
As a landlord who owns multiple properties, tenants don't understand what we go through. If you stay at home all day you're going to use the floor, switches, toilets, kitchen more which increases the maintenance that needs to be done and the apartment ages twice as quickly.
it’s remarkable just how much populist right wing rhetoric can be so easily disproved by the govt
“we are being taken over by the immigrant invasion”
- net migration has fallen 80%
“labour love the small boats”
- channel crossings are down 45% on where they were this time last year, and deportations are up 41% under labour
“our streets are no longer safe under labour”
- homicides now the lowest they’ve been in 50 years, and knife murders are at a 10 year low
funfact : les ponts des billets d’euro actuels sont tous inventés (pour pas « mettre en avant » 6 nations sur 28 en choisissant leurs ponts) et un architecte les a ensuite tous construits sur le même canal à Spijkenisse
et oui j’y suis déjà allé #sidequest
Funny how the cost of net zero gets endlessly debated, while the cost of climate inaction keeps mounting. June’s heatwave alone cost the UK economy an estimated $1.5bn. Climate inaction isn’t free; we’re just paying the price later, through disruption, damage & lost productivity.
I do think people who treat Greek mythology like its the Star Wars Canon are very funny. "In the original" what original there's 700 translations of it that are all different and that's just whatever version someone first wrote down out of what we know were competing versions
🚨 NEW: The White House is “deeply concerned” by Ed Miliband’s appointment as Foreign Secretary
A senior source said he’ll be a “point of friction” due to his support for green energy projects
[@Telegraph]