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I have been told that, would not surprise me at all, i dont suppose i could get a rebate since i have 3 bedrooms and there is me the wife and three kids?
frankyscouse

It sounds to me like a different way of trying to acheive what they were trying to do before but it fell through, there are a lot of for instance 3 bedroom council houses with 1 couple living in them like when the kids have grown up and left home and an old couple see out their days in the same house but with two empty rooms. They wanted a legislation the force you to move into a 1 bedroom to free up space as the council house waiting list is massive. To be honest I agree with it, a lot of young families cant get a mortgage at the minute and theres thousands of 3/4 bedroon council houses being occupied by couples or single parents for upto 50 years after the other spare rooms have been vacated.

Matt_RFC

{Ed033's Note - 1 million properties in Britain lie empty. 350,000 of these, for over 6 months. And yet, 2 million families need a home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhV4q6b2-wg&feature=BFa&list=PLD6668AAFCB22CA5D

K cheers Ed, any further info or suggestions where to check it out?

{Ed033's Note - You could phone your local council and say you'd like to speak to someone about council tax

They seem to be targeting school leavers what with the gcse results announced yesterday.

Of course taking on a load of teenagers means that they don't have to pay as much in wages just the minimum amounts.

At the same time the jobs they are cutting are the more experienced and thus more highly paid men in the mid 30's and over.

So thats all there doing, cutting experienced men on higher wages and replacing them with lower paid younger men who can be trained up.

Nothing sinister no war plans or anything, just Torie economics.

That sound about right?

Why are they bleating about his privacy? He was at a party with 15 other people who had their cameras out. What did they think was going to happen, that someone wouldn't flog the photo's for a few quid?

Thanks, i found another video on Wayne Herschel, which i think is worth a watch if you haven't watched it.

youtube.com/watch?v=qbCEKLRHmhc

JK92

I agree JR.
What I think is standing in the way of any "awakening" is what I call the 'Wall-E' culture in the west.
I don't know if you've seen the Disney film Wall-E, but basically, everyone is on a spaceship/cruiseship and they're hooked into their virtual world (read - iPhone, laptop, TV) that they don't see what's really going on in the world. Which the elites are happy with because they're free to do as they please, because Joe publics too busy downloading the latest version of Angry Birds to care!
Plus, they're getting fattened up on junk food which is killing them, so when and if they did realise, they'd be in no state to do anything about it.

DeV

Wayne Herschel talks to Freedom Central

I believe there are probably some decent people
in lofty positions (not too many though) but the ones at the very top are VERY right-wing and have that sense of born superiority and entitlment that
Matt alluded to. Add in the the fear-factor and secrecy even amongst different "compartments i doubt there is a powerful anti-military industrial complex group out there , just a few individuals
who have been speaking out for years i.e Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John Pilger and the late Howard Zinn.

I hope there will be a world-wide "awakening" to what's going on. only time will tell...

JR (LFC)

To be honest i don't think there are good and bad guys, just greedy.
frankyscouse

Cheers for your thoughts people.
I just think there must be some behind the scenes "good guys" about keeping some sort of status quo otherwise I think the whole world would be a lot more chaotic than it is!
Don't get me wrong, being a Marine I know the world IS chaotic but I think it would be a lot worse!

DeV

I think most of the offspring of these super elite families know no different, therefore are programed/schooled from birth to be what they are its their culture and myself and any of us could well be just the same as them if our parents were royalty/government financier/arms tycoon, we dont know what its like having more money than you could spend in your life and power, they live in their own realm. Flip side of that is they dont know what its like to live my world, what I would class normall, job/car/kids/mortgage and I dont know what its like to live in the 3rd world and admit I dont worry about them when Im sipping a beer watching telly in my central heated house. So I think its a perception thing and I think possibly they dont see themselves as evil thay dont know any different, but status will probably go to your head I would imagine.

Matt_RFC

I'm not really bothered about prince harry and what he gets upto. Loads of blokes have been on stag do's and birthday trips and general wild lads holidays all over the mediterranean or amsterdam or vegas and got up to the same things. No one gives a hoot, its only as harry is famous its news. Does it matter. More serious things are happening that are news than some spoilt person doing what all lads his age do.

Good question dev, its hard to define good,i think people do good things that we all would agree with but like edd suggests its prob for hes own benefit,the really good guys like the people who know how to cure cancer/aids free energy , never get a look in.so to answer your question people do good things but not for the right reasons.
frankyscouse

If I were 3rd inline to the throne I'd be surprised if I weren't in the press for the wrong reasons every week.

Supasub

I think Prince Harry's behaviour is disgraceful, why was there only one naked girl with him, where were the others?!

Pepperpot

To make it simple, inflation is what happens when more money is issued, it reduces the value of the money allready in circulation, this is why a house that cost 1500 50 years ago now costs 150,000 - 200,000. The system is called fractional reserve banking, ie you can lend out at 10 times your assets, problem is we dont really know the value of our assets do we so they can pretty much do what they like. You must have heard the phrase on the news "The cost of government borrowing is rising" this is why we have inflation, if they dont print it and lend it they dont make a profit on it. If you dare to come up with a more transparent alternative you get shot in your cavelcade in Texas.

Matt_RFC {Ed001's Note - there are other reasons for it too, such as pressure from workers. If you don't give your staff a pay rise each year, you know their productivity will drop. That is not a major amount of inflation, but it is a major reason why it will never end.}

Its on a lot of freeview services

If they'd caught him doing doggy style they'd have said it was a royal traditional game of naked wheelbarrow racing

Matt_RFC

At first i thought it was fake ,now i am 50/50.
frankyscouse