Yeah, the Daily Mail has that effect on me too. Best to have nothing to do with it.

Whilst I agree with you, Peter, and do not tend to read such garbage, I have to admit that any system that allows this to happen must be broken. £7,000 a month in rent? There is no wonder that first time buyers like me cannot get on to the property ladder while the incentives for buy to let investors are so strong.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the government is pretty happy for buy to let investors to snap up houses rather than first time buyers so that HMRC receives the capital gains tax benefit of any appreciation in value. A FTB would obviously benefit from principal private residence relief.

I’m getting an extra £13 a day in Afghanistan ~clap ~clap
Don’t you just love GREAT Britain ~naughty ~naughty

and i have just paid 4500 to get my hip sorted to be able to carry on working for these f8888888888888 ers ,something is sadly wrong some where did you see gordon brown the other night when he came out with the red brief case he held it up for the cameras and realised he had it the wrong way round simple task that he managed to cock up it was price less.
this country is a great place but needs a massive shake up in terms of benefits ,
i think i am gonna become a monk and find god

well thats why so many people come to our country, wouldn’t you…. VOTE CONSERVATIVE

and vote for a man who locked his bicycle to a 3 foot bollard and expected it to be there when he got back?
15 percent mortgage rates and a new level of sleaze?
no thanks.

Yea!! right so go and vote for a bunch of filthy totally corrupt scumbags who’ve utterly bankrupted this country once known as ENGLAND,

they are all as bad as each other, bring on the revolution…

Vote BNP – maybe we can give this country a shock.

the tory shite and press lackeys of the idle rich and greedy find glaring and uncommon mistakes to ‘justify’ their avarice and small-mindedness.
Why any F*cker needs 5 or 6 bathrooms or a mansion seems more apt?
Tory =pigs and scum.
tory illogic- since when has a co-operative meant ‘mugging’ of public services by stealth privatisation or greed?

as regards the BnP- why is is that British Nationalism was for many centuries the ‘privillege’ of narrow landed and sectional fionancial interest to pursue through patronage of the ‘British interest’ vuia foreign policy and deals -that often actively discriminated against the rights and wages of ordinary British people. When the same vested financial interests went non-dom or shifted capital overseas- British Nationalism was suddenly ‘unacceptable’ or funnelled in to narrow internationalist
racist groups that are usually financed by the same economic groups by backdoor means as they simuarly do to muslim and other alien extreme groups that the new global financial and famial ties ally themselves with- witness wahabbism and oil wealth.
It is these same interests that desire cheap labour and thereby unrestricted immigration as the previous expansion of the last 10 years supports.
Sadly when ordinary people demand and have a birthright to British Nationalism – they are all ‘labelled’ as rascist- i witnessed this recently when a lady spoke passionalately for saving British jobs at Cadburys -she was labelled ‘BNP’ by the host media on TV-even though she was clearly couloured British.
The strange marriage of the aforesaid narrow globalist economic interest and the ‘imtellectual’ liberal london based ‘elite’ seems to really discriminate or put-down ordinary people’s inate nationalism. We should be proud of our country and the few collective national instititions that our forbears fought for like the NHS.
Yet, the globalist press and owners usually find some sad or insecure spokesman who just brown noses money.
What is strange is the curious manner in which someCurious that some people snobbily suck up to, or claim tenous heritary relations with the same group of hereditary titled peers and associates that in the past probably starved, abused or robbed the lives of the snobs actual own forbears…

wightangler, I think that giving public sector staff incentives to work harder and be more efficient should be supported. The inefficiency and waste in government institutions is unparalleled by anything in the private sector.

Lots of my University peers failed the character test to join the civil service. They were too motivated and ambitious (not characteristics that are desired if you are working for the government).

what a joke ,no wonder the councils have no money left to fix our pot holed ,crumbling roads.
at the next election i shall write on my ballot paper “none of the above “, there as bad as ech other, Labour, spend, spend spend, Tories, cuts cuts cuts.

Id vote BNP as a protest vote but they dont have candidates round here.

I work for a quango, not quite gov’t but public sector Gary, and having worked in the sector for nearly 20 years I can say that yes, there is some inefficiency however in the private sector the whole organisation isn’t always in a constant state of change. I worked for the NHS for ten years and saw 5 major restructures I now work as a regulator and have just been through my third in 7 years.

As for your second comment, you’re talking B*!!*£$.

Regards

Rob

Rob, I genuinely wish that it was bollocks. Alas…

Oh well I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree!

All I can say is most of the people I have worked with whilst in the public sector, particularly in my current organisation, have been very hard working and motivated.

Also can I add that I do not support what the woman (and unknown others) in the news article is doing!

I guess it is all relative. Where I work now (large accountancy firm), people who are leaving to take jobs in the public sector are doing so for an easy life and a good pension!

Not so sure about the easy life, I’m a Financial regulator (not FSA)and things are getting more difficult in the sector in which i work.
The pension is good (at the moment – being whittled away all the time though)

Can I ask whic accountancy firm?

You can ask…! I will send you a PM.

Rule of thumb – All political parties are the same. Whomever is in power makes no difference.

Waste? Both private and public sector it happens However, the ordinary workers in both sectors flog themselves silly.

Anybody else think the financial institutions announcing huge profits is just a tad taking the P after all the problems they created.

If you are upset about financial institutions announcing enormous profits, wait until you see RBS’s results. I expect that they will reveal a reassuringly thumping loss!

Incidentally, have you noticed how the banks have stopped whinging about mark-to-market fair value accounting, now that fair values are on the increase again…?