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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    What I am really struggling to understand, is why so many wealthy pensioners object to having to pay their license fee, but thing it is fine that poor young people should.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Fuel allowance too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    The Christmas cacti is out,the Kangeroo Paw almost out. The scented orchid in the bathroom is so strong,you can smell it in the conservatory. Hosta, granddaughter sorted phone,sent message to hairdresser,got appointment, admitted it is early January
     It's 17c here, glorious blue sky and coffee will be taken outside!!
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    What I am really struggling to understand, is why so many wealthy pensioners object to having to pay their license fee, but thing it is fine that poor young people should.
    whilst watching the value of their mortgage free home rise year on year when virtually nobody under 40 can afford to get on the property ladder
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Punitive taxes on second homes and foreign buyers would help. But I doubt there are many MPs with only one house.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Punitive taxes on second homes and foreign buyers would help. But I doubt there are many MPs with only one house.
    of course they have more than one home . WE, the taxpayers pay for the London homes: they're all on expenses
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They should use one of those empty office blocks to house them. Security would be cheaper too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    You do realise that this is the RTBC thread,!!!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm really  cheerful that I've found the perfect solution to secure  MP storage 😀
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    I'm really  cheerful that I've found the perfect solution to secure  MP storage 😀
    they could move them into the hotels we no longer need for quarantine. 
    Good enough for us, so OBVIOUSLY they'd not complain about staying in them?
    Devon.
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