Category: Hands Off Our Future!
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Having just given HousePriceCrash a plug, it would be churlish of me not to mention that the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors are predicting a little price boom at the moment. The story can be followed on Reuters and the Daily Express website (the latter I understand is claiming prices will boom by 50% over…
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A couple of websites have caught my attention today: HousePriceCrash – is dedicated to highlighting that we are due for a corrective house price crash soon. Prediction is a mugs game, but they are almost certainly correct – any speculative market is subject to boom and bust no matter how much Gordon Brown protests. This…
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Labour and Lib Dem spokespeople have been competing on how best to insult young people struggling to pay for their own pensions this week. Speaking at an Institute of Public Policy Research meeting, Pensions Minister James Purnell highlighted the fact that the number of young people saving for a pension has gone down in the…
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Can I just say how important it is that sites such as HandsOffOurFuture are here to remind everyone that there is a huge population of people who will be driving the economy over the next three decades but as far as I can see they will be suffering taxation without representation. My business is in…
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The phantom council tax payer has struck again, this time thwarting Jo Rooney’s campaign against litter. Previously, Sylvia Hardy’s protest was undermined in the same way. Council Tax has struck a deep emotional chord amongst the public, not quite to the same extreme that the Poll Tax did, but the fact that so many pensioners…