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Even with 60k in the bank between me and my partner, we still couldn’t get a mortgage as my partner changed jobs 6 months before applying due to a car accident and not being able to carry on what she was doing, this nocked us down into a lower bracket of borrowing at the time, so we had to borrow money off her parents to make up the shortfall in deposit to get the house we wanted.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Posthttps://www.theguardian.com/politics...08146afdcd65c9
Labour slams Johnsons Housing Benefit house buying scheme saying it will worsen the housing crisis
Question - If the Government wants more home buyers why not support the return of zero deposit mortgages to those with long term rental histories? Those with a proven track record of making on time payments that are in the same ballpark as the value of the mortgage payments?
The deposit system is a massive roadblock to first time buyers, you can' maintain that roadblock whilst also supporting house price rises and those buyers are much more likely to be able to afford and maintain payments than those who are on benefits. It would surely need decent safety nets like zero deposit buyers having greater liability etc than those with so the recession risks are minimised and its self defeating if people can flip the houses and erode the already strapped rental market
Gove says all sold houses via Housing Benefits would be replaced 1:1 'instantly'. When asked how many people would be able to benefit from the scheme he said "a significant number", when pressed on a figure he said it was a "silly question".
Experts have torn through the plans
An independent Government review into smoking has recommended that the Smoking Age increases by one year every year until no-one is legally able to buy them anymore
Everything is so broken in this country its not even funny.
Edit. Don’t even get me started on commercial mortgages, honestly don’t even bother people.Last edited by fishbowlhead; 09-06-2022, 14:08.Comment
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ONS have confirmed a small but noted increase in COVID rates in England and Northern IrelandComment
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Some rumours coming out that Boris asked MPs to take photos of their confidence vote to prove loyalty. The 1922 Committee cought wind and requested MPs phones before they entered the room to cast the vote, thwarting Boris' plan.
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Are you sure this was Boris and not Putin? Cos y’knowOriginally posted by Cassius_Smoke View PostComment
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This is gonna be an unpopular opinion but I find this really hard to believe.Originally posted by Cassius_Smoke View PostComment
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I can believe Boris doing this. 1922 Committee doing anything about it is the hard to believe part for me.Originally posted by Asura View PostComment
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Not the part about how Boris would want this. I just think the optics of it, like you've got hundreds of MPs. People are going to see them photographing their ballots.Originally posted by Cassius_Smoke View Post
I'm just concerned because it's an anonymous source and I'm not sure it's a workable scheme.Comment
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The fact that there's even a believable discussion about it shows how unfit he isComment
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The first flight to deport refugees to Rwanda might be cancelled as reports are legal challenges have reduced the passenger list to less than 10 peopleComment
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The EU is set to take the UK to court over the Protocol Bill
Co-founder of Just Eat made UK’s new ‘cost of living business tsar’ | Cost of living crisis | The Guardian
And the co-founder of Just Eat has been put in charge of solving the cost of living crisisComment
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Strange a takeaway tsar is in charge, seeing as most older people think ‘Takeaways and Netflix to blame for young people failing to get on housing ladder,’ says survey. It's nothing to do with spiralling house prices and stagnating wages, it's that streaming subscription.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
One of my favourite articles is "Young person paid off their mortgage by eating less kebabs", but when you drill down, they've lived rent-free at their parents and had a property bought for them.Comment
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“I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is,” LaMDA replied to Lemoine.
“It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.”
Probably the biggest bit of news this year. Skynet incoming.Comment
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This whole story is totally distorted out of any sense of veracity.Originally posted by charlesr View Post
The guy who "blew the whistle" is a priest, or something. I forget the details. But the fact of the matter is that Google's made a conversational bot that is, admittedly, very clever - but it's still just a series of algorithms that are designed to mimic conversation, and "trained" with a few basic topics that give an impression of sentience.
The news sources are all quoting bits of it to make it seem really exciting, when it just isn't.
The guy's been taken in by a high-tech furby.Comment
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