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Blimet, Cameron's got the gloves off.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/return-of-the-nasty-party-as-david-cameron-looks-at-stripping-welfare-benefits-7879749.html
Could you move back home? It would have driven me crazy, at 25.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 11:57, 103 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/return-of-the-nasty-party-as-david-cameron-looks-at-stripping-welfare-benefits-7879749.html
Could you move back home? It would have driven me crazy, at 25.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 11:57, 103 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
I had to for a month and a half after living in my own place for 3 years
Drove me insane, was so glad to get out of there, despite the negative impact it had on my finances.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:01, Reply)
Drove me insane, was so glad to get out of there, despite the negative impact it had on my finances.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:01, Reply)
I was living in private rented accomadation from 22.
9 months back home after uni was enough.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:01, Reply)
9 months back home after uni was enough.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:01, Reply)
I had no idea i could claim housing benefit or just get given a free house.
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( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:02, Reply)
I think if you're on a low wage, you can claim it, it's not just for the unemployed.
The Social used to pay mortgage interest if you were unemployed, not sure if they do now?
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:06, Reply)
The Social used to pay mortgage interest if you were unemployed, not sure if they do now?
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:06, Reply)
When you say back home, I assume you mean back to the parent's home.
I wouldn't go back under any circumstances. And I certainly will not be able to, after the HS2 goes through it.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:07, Reply)
I wouldn't go back under any circumstances. And I certainly will not be able to, after the HS2 goes through it.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:07, Reply)
Just googled that, HS2.
"The Transport Secretary said that despite opposition from Conservative supporters, the £32 billion scheme is progressing “full steam ahead”".
The amusing little wag.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:10, Reply)
"The Transport Secretary said that despite opposition from Conservative supporters, the £32 billion scheme is progressing “full steam ahead”".
The amusing little wag.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:10, Reply)
tangled's wife will be self saucing on station platfroms from Euston to Birmingham!
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She has a thing about steam does she?
All those pumping pistons and oily nipples I suppose.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:18, Reply)
All those pumping pistons and oily nipples I suppose.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:18, Reply)
If you are too much of loser to support yourself by 25 then you deserve to be sent home
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:09, Reply)
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:09, Reply)
dear god no, much as i love my family
i bought my first flat at 18, let it whilst i was at uni, then sold it to pay my rent/college of law fees. i also worked my arse off every holiday whilst training to be a lawyer. i could have avoided all this if i'd gone to the college of law in chester and lived at home, but it just wasn't independent enough.
it's pretty normal in other parts of the world, though. what's the average age for leaving home in italy, about 40? and in japan i think a lot of people's parents live with them, or vice versa.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:10, Reply)
i bought my first flat at 18, let it whilst i was at uni, then sold it to pay my rent/college of law fees. i also worked my arse off every holiday whilst training to be a lawyer. i could have avoided all this if i'd gone to the college of law in chester and lived at home, but it just wasn't independent enough.
it's pretty normal in other parts of the world, though. what's the average age for leaving home in italy, about 40? and in japan i think a lot of people's parents live with them, or vice versa.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:10, Reply)
yeah, but in Italy it's because they spend all their income
on Alfa Romeos and designer clothes, and the men refuse to leave home until they've found a woman to look after them
/tired stereotypes are tired.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:13, Reply)
on Alfa Romeos and designer clothes, and the men refuse to leave home until they've found a woman to look after them
/tired stereotypes are tired.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:13, Reply)
I wish I'd bought earlier.
At 18, I was still at college! No way could I have got a mortgage on my lack of deposit, or paltry part time income.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:14, Reply)
At 18, I was still at college! No way could I have got a mortgage on my lack of deposit, or paltry part time income.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:14, Reply)
Swipey had been saving up her paper round money to afford the deposit.
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( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:16, Reply)
Plus it was the Frozen North
where you can buy a flat for sixty quid and a packet of biscuits.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:17, Reply)
where you can buy a flat for sixty quid and a packet of biscuits.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:17, Reply)
Cheshire is for Mancs who've made some money,
from used cars, massive drugs or crime in general.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:22, Reply)
from used cars, massive drugs or crime in general.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:22, Reply)
Possibly the third one?
Was going to say morning, but it's afternoon now.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:29, Reply)
Was going to say morning, but it's afternoon now.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:29, Reply)
Macclesfield doesn't count.
Apart from the mighty Macc Lads of course. How's you anyway?
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:50, Reply)
Apart from the mighty Macc Lads of course. How's you anyway?
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:50, Reply)
Not too bad thanks fella, just wish it was payday today, rather than tomorrow
Got an expensive month coming up, so I've got to be a bit careful, looks like I'm on jacket potatoes for lunch every day!
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:57, Reply)
Got an expensive month coming up, so I've got to be a bit careful, looks like I'm on jacket potatoes for lunch every day!
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:57, Reply)
I couldn't afford to until I'd started working here
Saved up for a deposit and bought a flat
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:17, Reply)
Saved up for a deposit and bought a flat
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:17, Reply)
the c&g were lending to 18 year olds at the time; bet they aren't now
i got a student loan to pay for the deposit, then got my dad to stand as guarantor. job done.
it wouldn't work now, though, because rents haven't really changed since 1996, whereas house prices have gone up massively. so i paid about £42,000 and the mortgage was about £310 a month. but the rent was £700 a month. which was a nice extra profit for me at uni. i then sold it in 2000 for £102,000, but the rent was still only £700 a month.
now it's probably worth about £130,000 - but the rent is only £650 a month.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:27, Reply)
i got a student loan to pay for the deposit, then got my dad to stand as guarantor. job done.
it wouldn't work now, though, because rents haven't really changed since 1996, whereas house prices have gone up massively. so i paid about £42,000 and the mortgage was about £310 a month. but the rent was £700 a month. which was a nice extra profit for me at uni. i then sold it in 2000 for £102,000, but the rent was still only £700 a month.
now it's probably worth about £130,000 - but the rent is only £650 a month.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:27, Reply)
Rent has gone up massively in Cornwall since 1996
We rented a 3 bed house for £275 a month same house is now £650. My flat after finishing uni in 2002 was £75 a week split between two of us its now double that.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:29, Reply)
We rented a 3 bed house for £275 a month same house is now £650. My flat after finishing uni in 2002 was £75 a week split between two of us its now double that.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:29, Reply)
maybe areas that are popular with tourists are different?
i know what i get for the holiday home in cornwall is ten times more during the summer than during the winter, for example.
my dad has his beady eye on a penthouse in cornwall where the owner ran out of cash, so it's being sold by LPA receivers. i forget the figures, but say they want £300k. he put in a silly cash offer at £150k. they said no. he said, well, you know where i am. it's now on the market at about £190k and they are pestering him to meet in the middle. a sign of worrying times for home owners with high mortgages, i think. also the economist/actuarial ex is adamant that all the signs point to a housing market crash. eek.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:37, Reply)
i know what i get for the holiday home in cornwall is ten times more during the summer than during the winter, for example.
my dad has his beady eye on a penthouse in cornwall where the owner ran out of cash, so it's being sold by LPA receivers. i forget the figures, but say they want £300k. he put in a silly cash offer at £150k. they said no. he said, well, you know where i am. it's now on the market at about £190k and they are pestering him to meet in the middle. a sign of worrying times for home owners with high mortgages, i think. also the economist/actuarial ex is adamant that all the signs point to a housing market crash. eek.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:37, Reply)
This recession has a good 5 years left to run
we are being told by our actuaries.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:41, Reply)
we are being told by our actuaries.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:41, Reply)
Unless there's a housing market crash
I'm unlikely to be able to buy a place this decade.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:43, Reply)
I'm unlikely to be able to buy a place this decade.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:43, Reply)
i couldn't, even if there weren't temperamental mediterreans there arguing 24/7
i moved out at 16 and have been on my own two feet since then, no going back
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:13, Reply)
i moved out at 16 and have been on my own two feet since then, no going back
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:13, Reply)
Academy of Hard Knocks, and School of Life then?
Think i was 18, or 19.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:17, Reply)
Think i was 18, or 19.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:17, Reply)
Hmmmm
My wife and I were both under 25 when we got married and had our first child. I am pretty sure my mum would have told me to get tae fuck.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:23, Reply)
My wife and I were both under 25 when we got married and had our first child. I am pretty sure my mum would have told me to get tae fuck.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:23, Reply)
I did between Uni and starting my first job, at 23.
It wasn't that bad - I got my cooking done for me, and I had a car so I was rarely there anyway. There's no way I could do it now though. No way in heck!
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:28, Reply)
It wasn't that bad - I got my cooking done for me, and I had a car so I was rarely there anyway. There's no way I could do it now though. No way in heck!
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:28, Reply)
I, for one, think there is not nearly enough youth homelessness
and the government should do all they can to increase it.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:30, Reply)
and the government should do all they can to increase it.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:30, Reply)
When I were a lad, people lived under bridges.
Not many people live under bridges any more. Where do they live now? Perhaps they have gone to the mystical place where all the white dog poo has gone.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:32, Reply)
Not many people live under bridges any more. Where do they live now? Perhaps they have gone to the mystical place where all the white dog poo has gone.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:32, Reply)
According to our local council,
there are only 7 homeless people in Manchester. 7. Apparently, if you have a "regular" doorway or railway arch, thia counts as an address.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:37, Reply)
there are only 7 homeless people in Manchester. 7. Apparently, if you have a "regular" doorway or railway arch, thia counts as an address.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:37, Reply)
I'd pick the council office doorway.
See how they fucking like it.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:39, Reply)
See how they fucking like it.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:39, Reply)
I remember a survey on people sleeping rough in London
said very few people were sleeping rough. Turned out they only counted people lying down and the survey was conducted during they day.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:41, Reply)
said very few people were sleeping rough. Turned out they only counted people lying down and the survey was conducted during they day.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:41, Reply)
She fancies you.
It's like kids in the playground pushing each other over etc.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:41, Reply)
It's like kids in the playground pushing each other over etc.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:41, Reply)
+ I was raised by two lesbian ducks
but it's alright now, in fact it's a gas etc, etc
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:36, Reply)
but it's alright now, in fact it's a gas etc, etc
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:36, Reply)
You could go back and stand at the window in the pouring rain.
Staring, forever staring, at the happy family within. You're soaked and then one of the children catches your eye. You reach out to the window - perhaps this is a memory, and the child is you reflected against the window pain. But no, the rain is all to real, as is the cold steel of the handcuffs as you are led away, the screaming of a terrified family still ringing in your ears.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:34, Reply)
Staring, forever staring, at the happy family within. You're soaked and then one of the children catches your eye. You reach out to the window - perhaps this is a memory, and the child is you reflected against the window pain. But no, the rain is all to real, as is the cold steel of the handcuffs as you are led away, the screaming of a terrified family still ringing in your ears.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:34, Reply)
My dear mother said we could live at home rent free as long as we were being educated
I moved out at 18 when I went to uni, and I mean moved out, I packed everything I owned and went to uni in a rented van. I never moved back in. My brother finished College and didn't go to uni and moved out at 18 and my sister did the same. When my sister was in her early 20's she fell on hard times and was pregnant, the social told her to move back in with my mum and my mum told them "Fuck off she's an adult now and I don't want a baby in the house" Took so long to get them to stump up the housing benefit that she had had the kid and was back working again. She had borrowed loads just to get by. My mum lent her all the money, its a catch 22, if my mum had let her move back in they would never have given her a penny to move back out again. Better in the long run to lend her money and keep her in her own place.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:34, Reply)
I moved out at 18 when I went to uni, and I mean moved out, I packed everything I owned and went to uni in a rented van. I never moved back in. My brother finished College and didn't go to uni and moved out at 18 and my sister did the same. When my sister was in her early 20's she fell on hard times and was pregnant, the social told her to move back in with my mum and my mum told them "Fuck off she's an adult now and I don't want a baby in the house" Took so long to get them to stump up the housing benefit that she had had the kid and was back working again. She had borrowed loads just to get by. My mum lent her all the money, its a catch 22, if my mum had let her move back in they would never have given her a penny to move back out again. Better in the long run to lend her money and keep her in her own place.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:34, Reply)
I don't think it's unreasonable to make someone who doesn't work
move in with their parents rather than having their housing paid for them. Same with old people.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:34, Reply)
move in with their parents rather than having their housing paid for them. Same with old people.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:34, Reply)
Serious answer.
I don't think it unreasonable for jobseeker's allowance to pay your mortgage/rent up to a point. Nor do I think single parent's allowance is unreasonable. What needs to be addressed is the way it can be abused to produce career benefit scammers.
For example, if you're renting, support should only be provided up until your rental agreement runs out. After that, you need to make alternative arrangements. Child support should be capped to pay for the amount of children you have at the point of application, if you choose to have further children whilst still on income support, you're a fuckwit and not the Government's responsibility. Nor should the Government give you a larger house. Rather, they should give you the means to pay rent capped at an appropriate amount to pay for a place that can support the amount of children you have at the point of application.
Disability allowance should be limited to disabilities that actually stop you from being capable of supporting yourself and not, as has been seen, being a fat cunt.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:40, Reply)
I don't think it unreasonable for jobseeker's allowance to pay your mortgage/rent up to a point. Nor do I think single parent's allowance is unreasonable. What needs to be addressed is the way it can be abused to produce career benefit scammers.
For example, if you're renting, support should only be provided up until your rental agreement runs out. After that, you need to make alternative arrangements. Child support should be capped to pay for the amount of children you have at the point of application, if you choose to have further children whilst still on income support, you're a fuckwit and not the Government's responsibility. Nor should the Government give you a larger house. Rather, they should give you the means to pay rent capped at an appropriate amount to pay for a place that can support the amount of children you have at the point of application.
Disability allowance should be limited to disabilities that actually stop you from being capable of supporting yourself and not, as has been seen, being a fat cunt.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:40, Reply)
Disability payments in the North of England would go down 80% over night.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:43, Reply)
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:43, Reply)
This is the trouble when you live in an area
that believes eating fruit and vegetables makes you "a furkin' poove"
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:44, Reply)
that believes eating fruit and vegetables makes you "a furkin' poove"
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:44, Reply)
Im not sure you can get housing benefit to help pay a mortgage
I might be wrong though but I think if we were suddenly unemployed we'd be fucked.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:43, Reply)
I might be wrong though but I think if we were suddenly unemployed we'd be fucked.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:43, Reply)
Can you not get insurance for that, though?
But really, I don't see why your mortgage couldn't be paid for say, six months or a year.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:45, Reply)
But really, I don't see why your mortgage couldn't be paid for say, six months or a year.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:45, Reply)
You can get insurance but its an extra cost and I think you have to have been paying the mortgage for two years before it counts
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:48, Reply)
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:48, Reply)
You can get housing benefit to pay a mortgage, but only interest.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:46, Reply)
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:46, Reply)
So we would still be fucked, ah well good job I got myself one of those new fangled educations
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:52, Reply)
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:52, Reply)
Stop trying to sell me insurance!
I don't have £30 a month! I'm married with two kids! I don't have 30p!
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 13:00, Reply)
I don't have £30 a month! I'm married with two kids! I don't have 30p!
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 13:00, Reply)
Nah, insurance costs money
I like to live dangerously,
We probably already have it, my dear wife the accountant sorts all that shit out, I recently discovered that if I die she gets £250k
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:55, Reply)
I like to live dangerously,
We probably already have it, my dear wife the accountant sorts all that shit out, I recently discovered that if I die she gets £250k
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:55, Reply)
problem is, the fuckwits who have too many children, don't work etc
aren't the ones who wiull get screwed by this, it'll be their 'innocent' kids. This is why sterilisation is the key, just ask phillijoe
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:44, Reply)
aren't the ones who wiull get screwed by this, it'll be their 'innocent' kids. This is why sterilisation is the key, just ask phillijoe
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:44, Reply)
Yes.
Although at the moment I imagine it would count as non-essential surgery and has been cut to fuck.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:47, Reply)
Although at the moment I imagine it would count as non-essential surgery and has been cut to fuck.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:47, Reply)
Nah, they do them under local at the local doctors surgery
Mine was done by my GP. It took half an hour. Plus its cheaper to do a quick slice and stitch than look after yet another human.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:49, Reply)
Mine was done by my GP. It took half an hour. Plus its cheaper to do a quick slice and stitch than look after yet another human.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:49, Reply)
Indeed
We can house and support two children so I have had my testicles mutilated. I believe all responsible males should do the same.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:46, Reply)
We can house and support two children so I have had my testicles mutilated. I believe all responsible males should do the same.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:46, Reply)
Then they ought to find some fucking work.
If you're working, I don't see why the Government couldn't cover the cost of a creche, or whatever. It's got to be cheaper than provided houses and rent for four or five bedroom houses. Especially as you only need to do it until they're in school.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:46, Reply)
If you're working, I don't see why the Government couldn't cover the cost of a creche, or whatever. It's got to be cheaper than provided houses and rent for four or five bedroom houses. Especially as you only need to do it until they're in school.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:46, Reply)
We would be better of if the wife quit her job as the childcare costs are about £320 a week
But as kids grow up and go to school and the job market down here is fucked we think she's better off working.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:51, Reply)
But as kids grow up and go to school and the job market down here is fucked we think she's better off working.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 12:51, Reply)
I'd end up bludgeoning my dear old ma to death within a month if I moved home.
Going for 48 hours at Xmas drives me nuts.
In other news, I'm feeling rather depressed today.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 13:18, Reply)
Going for 48 hours at Xmas drives me nuts.
In other news, I'm feeling rather depressed today.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 13:18, Reply)
You're going to be worse when you get home.
I nicked all your records. Soz.
I didn't like most of them. I used them as frisbees. Brittle, ain't they.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 13:28, Reply)
I nicked all your records. Soz.
I didn't like most of them. I used them as frisbees. Brittle, ain't they.
( , Mon 25 Jun 2012, 13:28, Reply)
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