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£25k pa is national minimum wage (40 hrs a week). Thats not boomers fault. If you and your peers aren’t happy, do something about it. Follow train drivers and junior doctors example and take some industrial action to improve your lot.

I’m starting to think it seems a bit laboured and manufactured. I’m not sure it actually felt much better when I bought my first house in 1978. £8995 for a 3 bed semi with no central heating or double glazing. Bloody freezing in winter. Sold it two years later to the first family who came to...

With all the children they have, or want if they could only afford a roof over their heads???

Standard inflation, according to Bank of England, would put goods costing £330k in 1990 at a cost of £815k in April 2025. That would imply housing in affordability is scarcely unique. But I guess it is harder to blame boomers for the cost of shoes, so why not exaggerate for effect and disharmony.

As you put it yourself “ it just makes you look spiteful and vindictive.”

Is it? If you don’t need a house and land of that size, asking if you need a house of that price is hardly missing the point. Doesn’t suit your agenda though, does it?

Here is one to start with, very similar to my parents house ( cheaper as not in Coventry). Try Rightmove, there are loads. https://www.haart.co.uk/buying/3-bedroom-Detached-house-for-sale/Coventry-Coventry-CV6/hrt037642030/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn05268j86zo Our EU friends 🤣

It is a relatively large issue in this context

How can Labour winning an election leave the majority of the country insane? Or do they not have the mandate they like to suggest they have?

Are you really sure about that?

Do you need an £800k house?

We all did quite badly iirc.

On what basis are they due any payment for land they have never owned? It’s effectively fear of blackmail leading to payment of a significant annual ransom. Who knows how long those in government in 2022 might have dragged things out with no intention of making such payments. If the US pay the...

That the UN does not have jurisdiction to order the UK to do anything relating to a country which was part of the commonwealth. Starmer et al have just rolled over.

Didn’t get anywhere near the deck.

How much was Rwanda going to cost? £700m for 1000 immigrants. Poor value crystallised by Cooper abandoning the scheme prematurely. Chagos is an absolute bargain? at £3.5 bn? five times as much.

Googled etymology Tatars: The word "tartar" has historical ties to the Tatars, a Turkic-speaking group from Central Asia and Eastern Europe. They were known for their nomadic lifestyle and military prowess, and their diet included raw meat. Steak Tartare: The Tatars' practice of eating raw...

They don't sound terribly technical or complex.

It used to be in the interest of standardisation and reducing variability. part of the theory was that NHS Supplies had national purchasing power and would be able to get the very best prices. Problem was, they used to have to add the NHS Supplies costs on to this prices to sell on in to the...