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Irrelevant

Don't try and justify your <removed> position with pointless comparisons.

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Where the <mod edit removed>,you know nothing about me or my financial position <also removed>

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How do you know that ? what gives you right to make unfounded assumptions about me or anyone else to justify your own prejudices

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Twisting things again to suit your prejudice ,how do you know I am "well off" , how long have I been "well off" ,since you seem to know so much about my personal finances how big a mortgage can I afford ?
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We weren't arguing my friend, you might find marty's links helpful though

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ooh, name calling! <mod edit removed>

By your own admission you work full time, earn good money, good enough to afford a mortgage though at your age you have no desire to undertake... Which is totally fair enough.

The whole point of this thread is the proposal that those in your position will no longer be allowed to benefit than a lower than market rent for the size and location of property you live in that may be charged by the local authority against a private property.

You've skirted around the issue pretty well insisting you pay " full rent" as demanded by the LA but been a bit more sketchy around whether that constitutes the market rate for the size and location of you council property.

I'm not an expert in the field but I'm pretty sure that council properties are cheaper than private rental of the same standard, otherwise what would be the point?

Therefore if you can afford to pay the private rate you should pay it. By all means stay where you are, but pay the full rate so that the extra can help some poor sod who can't.

If you complain about that, then you are morally - exposed.

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That may be but having read those articles, apart from some small super rich areas, it's all 'could' and 'feared'. Looks like they are trying to sell papers by hyping up a possible eventuality.

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I think what we have to remember is that if we've all been supportive of cuts to the unemployed and such. then we can't be a hypocrite and expect ourselves to be excempt from cuts by way of paying a bit more rent :)

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Give that man a ceee-gar!

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I gave up smoking. can I have some e-liquid instead?

Mango flavour.

a Vision Spinner battery would be nice too.

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Since when is 75% a tiny fraction and since when is stratford a small super rich area

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...w-8826336.html

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That article doesn't suggest that the foreign investors are going to 'buy to leave' :confused:

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It does if you saw the sales video the developer was criticised for. Hopefully they won't be but I wouldn't put my house on it after seeing so many blocks in the city at night without a light on anywhere.

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Could that be due to power saving measures?

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I mean the residents could be doing that but it isn't mandated or local authority policy.

He is right though most new build flats are marketed as investments in London. Adverts on radio for them boast of the profit that could be made and paper advertisements are accompanied by yield rates. We can also expect it to get worse with the turmoil in the Asian stock markets too.