We've had 9 interest rate rises in the last year or so with more to come, i don't even want to know what our monthly repayments are going to be when the fixed term ends.
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I don't know if that's the same reasons as the rises over here but when you've got households with 2 decent wages coming in barely able to tread water then something stinks. No idea how single people or the under 30's will ever be able to get on the property ladder unless their parents are rich basically.
Worth noting this isn’t unique to the U.K. In Portugal rent prices have increased about 40% in the last 5 years. Landlords can only impose small amounts of increase on sitting tenants however.
When the min wage is 760 EUR a month and average rent is about 1000 EUR you can see trouble is just around the corner.
I watched a video recently. Possibly even a Russell Brand one.. but the gist of it was that the western governments, UK and US, are more than happy to keep Ukrainian war ticking along because they're making huge amounts of money from it. Not only the loan's and weapons sold to Ukraine, but the future mineral rights there too.. PLUS it's the perfect excuse to put all of our utility bills up massively and blame the war! We are screwed!!
Like you said, it's time for a revolution. I'd happily see the Tories swinging from trees to be honest right now. I'm really getting to the point where something needs to give!!
mussolini from a lamp post. would be highly apt for the shysters to be similar.
Same. My fixed rate finishes at the end of 2024.. Hopefully its reduced a bit by then!
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I watched a video recently. Possibly even a Russell Brand one.. but the gist of it was that the western governments, UK and US, are more than happy to keep Ukrainian war ticking along because they're making huge amounts of money from it. Not only the loan's and weapons sold to Ukraine, but the future mineral rights there too.. PLUS it's the perfect excuse to put all of our utility bills up massively and blame the war! We are screwed!!
Like you said, it's time for a revolution. I'd happily see the Tories swinging from trees to be honest right now. I'm really getting to the point where something needs to give!!
Pretty sure the weapons from the west are being given mate. Personally, I wouldnt base my critical analysis of world events on sommet Russell Brands opines.
Ukraine will have to pay it all back I'm sure..
To be honest, I thought the same. Some of his YouTube vids are actually very good..
Same for us mate. Coming off a 5 year 1.9% rate in the summer is going to hit us hard.
Think I mentioned earlier in this thread, when that happens we're going to be around £700 a month worse off when considering all the other increases. Utility bills, nursery fee increases, food/petrol etc.
The worrying thing is we never had £700 a month spare, so what gives?
And I genuinely think the government (or whoever is responsible for the figure) are massively under calculating the inflation rates. Walking round the supermarket, prices on every day products seem to have gone up around 30% and our utility bills have gone up around 120%.
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They back tracked on the ‘golden visa’ programme. Good to see a government admit a mistake and rectify. Was a mad idea though
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A whole system that will fail if people are paid "too much"
Free money currently available for the simple task of switching bank accounts:
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Home-made, tomato based sauces, are the cheapest and easiest thing to make at home!
A couple of tins of chopped tomatoes, mix in some dried herbs and spices to taste, and it will be tastier, cheaper and a quarter of the price of these Loyd-Grossman, jarred sauces.
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