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I covered the housing stock issue in Post 101, so agree on both fronts there. As for Browns welfare burden, how dare a Labour Chancellor think of the poor and disadvantaged, shame on him!

Selling the housing stock was the Tory equivalent of Gordon Brown selling our gold! A way to make quick money, to either plug gaps in the figures, buy off voters with tax cuts, or to fund other schemes, or a combination of all 3. Look where they have left us...

That's the problem though, a government DID interfere with the housing problem by selling off all the council houses and refusing to allow councils to build new houses. That was the catalyst for the problems we find ourselves in now. Not everyone wants to own their own home and as you have said...

Part of the problem is in your own answer. Because of the cost of living and housing/rent in the UK couples are pretty much forced to both work, hence the governments assistance with child care. However from a social point of view this has created another generation of latch key kids, where...

Can’t argue with any of that - damn!

I agree again with what you say, but still can’t see why you can’t grasp how unfair it appears to the lower paid. I understand that it will cost a lot more to benefit the majority, but please please understand how wrong it appears to be to benefit the better off at the detriment of the poorer...

NIMBY’s in Faversham, never? :D

Again you are ignoring my point that the higher percentage increase has gone to the higher earners, ergo they are getting richer! As for your question about what constitutes a high earner, well £45k sounds quite high to me!

Yep, all again true, but still doesn’t change the fact of this budget that those benefiting most from the tax changes, individually, will be those on the higher rate change bracket.

Points 1 & 2 are fair, but unfortunately many of these people still rely heavily on other subsides like Working Tax Credits and Family Tax Credits. The minimum wage rise has just brought those on it up from Very poorly paid to poorly paid!

Ok, my mistake using the phrase top end allowance. however the basis is still the same, the individual on the higher rate quoted, will individually be better if than the individual at the lower end of the tax rates. Your response only goes to further demonstrate that the rich "individually" will...

So an extra 5.4% on the tax allowance at the lower end of the allowances and 7.87% at the top end of allowances. Usual Tory fair then! The rich get richer while the poor bump along at the bottom...

You have been quite selective with prices. I was talking from my own experience and can give specific examples. The house I live in was bought for me to rent and cost £125000 in October 2012. 6 years later an identical house on the same road has sold for £235000. I would estimate of the 60...

I am going to make a massive assumption that you live in an area where rents are relatively low. My 3 bed house in Sittingbourne costs me £950 per month. For reasons I don’t wish to go into here I am not able to get a mortgage but know for certain the cost to buy my house would have been...

I think that was Zaha, easy mistake to make...

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Universal credit is a good shout, I can see him bigging up the £51 million given to CAB, that has already been announced, to help sort out the shambles and hardship it’s going to cause. He may even paper over the cracks regarding the lie of no transition losses.