Ian1779
Well-Known Member
I think for those people with a single property stamp duty is a little unnecessary - use it for people that own multiple properties.
I think for those people with a single property stamp duty is a little unnecessary - use it for people that own multiple properties.Spot on. They’ll be another ‘cliff edge’ next time so will be interesting to see if that’s addressed next week. There’s murmurs of stamp duty being dropped full time for sales below a certain sum. Won’t happen next week but maybe they’ll keep an eye on how the market looks in coming months
I’ve always thought the biggest scam is the ability for people to pull out of deals at no cost to them (think they should at least cover legals on other side). Tricky with chains though I guess but never felt right to me
If you were a solicitor specialising in conveyancing and getting a fixed 2K+ a time for a sale and purchase, you’d want to be smashing them out all over the place. I know they are hamstrung by the slowness of the searches process which seems to be stuck in the 19th Century, but they could then put pressure on this for reform. I did read somewhere government were looking at the whole conveyancing process as it’s so far behind the times.
Spot on. They’ll be another ‘cliff edge’ next time so will be interesting to see if that’s addressed next week. There’s murmurs of stamp duty being dropped full time for sales below a certain sum. Won’t happen next week but maybe they’ll keep an eye on how the market looks in coming months
I’ve always thought the biggest scam is the ability for people to pull out of deals at no cost to them (think they should at least cover legals on other side). Tricky with chains though I guess but never felt right to me
Stamp Duty only applies for properties over a certain amount doesn't it?
A reminder that there is a shocking amount of racism in this country.
Job losses in pandemic due to performance issues, say nearly half of Britons
Kings College London study also revealed negative views of minorities are still commonwww.theguardian.com
"In one of the starkest findings, one in eight Britons (13%) said they think black people are more likely to be unemployed and have lower incomes because they “lack motivation or willpower”.
This attitude was held by more than one in five of the Conservative voters polled, compared with less than one in 20 Labour supporters. Overall, 47% said those inequalities are because of discrimination but strikingly racist views remain, with 4% of respondents saying inequality was because most black people have “less in-born ability to learn”. The researchers discovered this by asking questions rarely posed in the UK, but often included in US social surveys."
4% is around the bat shit number, any poll has around that level of trolls/can’t understand the question/ticked the wrong box and it can safely be written off.
British social attitudes survey has good longitudinal data and asks people if they are prejudiced against other races. The number has been slowly dropping from about 35% to around 25%, and the question is still ambiguous (especially now the woke orthodoxy is to recognise everyone is racially biased), but it’s a pretty good indicator.
And of course, standard disclaimer that this is lower than most countries but of course still not low enough.
Yeah agree on the 4%.
But the 13%? Or 20% of Tory voters? Not good.
When I bought mine, the solicitor was the same that had been used for the previous purchase. He still had to do the searches from scratch, despite them being in his filing cabinet!All the searches and documentation etc was done on my old place when we bought it. I’ve still got it all saved. Why couldn’t I just hand that to the people buying the house after me? Maybe not the actual checks on the building but the other local area survey shite.
A reminder that there is a shocking amount of racism in this country.
Job losses in pandemic due to performance issues, say nearly half of Britons
Kings College London study also revealed negative views of minorities are still commonwww.theguardian.com
"In one of the starkest findings, one in eight Britons (13%) said they think black people are more likely to be unemployed and have lower incomes because they “lack motivation or willpower”.
This attitude was held by more than one in five of the Conservative voters polled, compared with less than one in 20 Labour supporters. Overall, 47% said those inequalities are because of discrimination but strikingly racist views remain, with 4% of respondents saying inequality was because most black people have “less in-born ability to learn”. The researchers discovered this by asking questions rarely posed in the UK, but often included in US social surveys."
Actually better than I’d expect as my baseline assumption is around 20% of the population is racist and most of them probably vote Tory.
But yeah, it’s shitty. Question is how do we drive it lower as the world leader in reducing racism? Tough when there’s no good models to follow.
I think we need to broaden this a little and look at any form of discrimination in general, with racism being just a part of the ugly bigger picture.
Would you agree with the argument that any councillor or MP through their actions or inactions which had lead to discriminatory acts be it legal or illegal at the time of their public service should pay restitution costs to society by losing their LGA pension?
U OK hun?
Is this a Grendel tribute act?
I prefer the original
It's a simple question to answer ask Shmmeee.
... I am shmmeee
Thoroughly confused now. I posted something about the level of racism in the U.K., you asked some weird convoluted question I can barely parse.
You want to try again?
Heard this on the radio last night. He's utterly void of content isn't he?
Heard this on the radio last night. He's utterly void of content isn't he?
I can ask this all day..
'Would you agree with the argument that any councillor or MP through their actions or inactions which had lead to discriminatory acts be it legal or illegal at the time of their public service should pay restitution costs to society by losing their LGA pension? '
Another 15% drop in deaths week to week today. Not sure on test positives as not seen the data for today.
But hopefully a drop from last week would be nice
Do I think someone that doesn’t do something illegal should lose their pension?
No?
Edit, sorry I’ve still misread:
Do I think someone who does something that causes discriminatory acts to happen should lose their pension?
Is that it?
Still no. Terms of employment are terms of employment.
What is this?
Okay Shmmeee, we've finally got the ball rolling.
What about this;
We stop the pensions of the people from the LGA involved in this anyway. We pack out the legal system with people that somehow agree with this position and then wait for them to go through the court system all the way to EHCR and then drag our feet as much as possible when the ECHR rules in the LGA favour. They could be without their pensions for a good 10 years.
This is all very legal.
O....K....
What has any of this got to do with the baseline level of racism in the U.K.? Or for that matter, COVID?
I think discrimination comes in many forms with racism being just one part of it.
Utilitarianism, the dangers of it, and all that.
I feel like everyone else when you post the stats graphs now.
It is something that affects all political parties. Some more than others.
On an entirely separate point; Why isn't Starmer 20 points ahead in the polls by now?
Because the government is paying people to stay at home and saving their grannies from COVID?
Or are you one of these that thinks everyone in the country is as obsessed with the minutiae of political debate as you are?
This thread has taken a very odd turn.
It's a question that's not going to go away. Hope it turns around in time for the local elections.
Is that 730k people who have symptoms but not covidConfirmed cases just under 10k (from 740k tests) down from 12k last Thursday
Vaccinations back to normal 450k first dose and 30k second dose
A decent day
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