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Re: Meet the new Boss............

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Originally Posted by robchester (Post 1223953)

Along with the rest of Britain I have seen a steep increase in the tax burden which has risen disproportionately with the standard of services which they are supposed to improve. Many have fell foul of the pensions they have worked so hard for, the cost of living is much higher now and it is unbelievably more difficult to get onto the housing ladder. Brown doesnt have a mandate to govern the country.

Brown needs to stabilise inflation and level taxation, gain greater powers of removal over failed asylum seekers & illegal immigrants, improve transport & network links and the NHS, cut red tape in the criminal justice system and ease the prison spaces crisis.

It is asking too much, but the country should have never got into the state its in if it had been run properly in the first place.

Glad to see the back of smiling Tony all spin and no substance, the only good thing is Brown is no longer chanchellor of the exechecker, under him my tax burden has nearly doubled because of all his stealth taxes. My pension will be taxed when i get it and the pension fund is being taxed so can expect lower returns. As this country is getting older per average head of population youd think he do something to keep the burden of paying for pensioners down but no he's taxed and squeezed people's pension funds so you cant look forward to early retirement thus providing more jobs for the young. Roll on a general election then we can elect our own choice for prime minister

Re: Meet the new Boss............

Re house prices

Yes, I live "Up North" I have an average 3 bed semi built in 1958. I bought it for £20,000 in 1984 and paid off the mortgage a while back. Average prices in my area are about £180,000 for similar housing. My employers want me to relocate and cannot understand why at my time of life I don't want to take on the burden of a mortgage as I cannot buy similar for the same price.

My 20 year old son is currently struggling to get a mortgage application approval for the little 2 bed house he is trying to buy at £140,000. This fills me full of fear, starting off life with such a heavy debt. I took out a 2 times mortgage. He is looking at 5 times and in fear that if he does not buy now, he never will.

As for the rest, I am considerably worse off with taxation than I was 10 years ago. The company I work for has shred about 25,000 jobs in the UK over that period, roads/rail have become worse. Social housing has not kept pace with demand. Yet over development with nasty little boxes has blighted once pleasant rural communities.

Strange that whilst I would never consider voting for any labour politician, that I prefer the honesty of politicians such as Tony Benn and old labour than the spin and rhetoric of Tony and Gordon's illussion act.