Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:57 pm  

Hull White Star wrote:

Like I said, there is already an essential worker allowance for London, you aren't listening either, this is not about London. Is it more expensive to live in Cambridge, Norfolk, Leicester? Will those towns and cities be in the North or South??

Having recently come back from holidaying "down south" the disel was far cheaper than in Hull, so please don't patronise.

Like I have already said, it wouldn't be difficult to implement a relative scale, with places such as Cambridge at the top and Hull at the bottom. The data is available I'm sure.

Just paid £2.60 to park my car for 45 minutes in Maidstone I guess we deserve it for voting in the Conversatives around here.

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:59 pm  

Has anyone actually said that pay will be cut in the north?

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:02 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Like I have already said, it wouldn't be difficult to implement a relative scale, with places such as Cambridge at the top and Hull at the bottom. The data is available I'm sure.

Just paid £2.60 to park my car for 45 minutes in Maidstone I guess we deserve it for voting in the Conversatives around here.

No, you deserve to be embarrased about the nasty way they are treating the poor and vunerable members of society. I am not poor by any means in the true sense, but I am disabled and the way they have treated us is dispicable.

If you think its that expensive to live in Kent that you need "extra money" than why not move up North? Works both ways.

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:04 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

Has anyone actually said that pay will be cut in the north?

No, thats why I have questioned just how it will work. Will the North get the cuts or the South get the rise? Whichever way it will cause unrest.

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:04 pm  

Basically the Tories want to have London as this Super rich city state, with the rest of the nation employed as Thralls, servicing the needs of the Metropolitan elite. In the modern era of mobility there is an argument that things like the London Weighting along with the disproportionately large housing benefit subsidy London receives, are actually helping drive up the house price differentials between London and the rest of the UK. As discussed by other posters however. Other areas of the country are often just as expensive eg food, fuel. Or even more expensive, Public transport, council tax etc. Housing benefit link http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... 4w&cad=rja

Basically the Tories want to have London as this Super rich city state, with the rest of the nation employed as Thralls, servicing the needs of the Metropolitan elite. In the modern era of mobility there is an argument that things like the London Weighting along with the disproportionately large housing benefit subsidy London receives, are actually helping drive up the house price differentials between London and the rest of the UK. As discussed by other posters however. Other areas of the country are often just as expensive eg food, fuel. Or even more expensive, Public transport, council tax etc. Housing benefit link http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... 4w&cad=rja

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:10 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Like I have already said, it wouldn't be difficult to implement a relative scale, with places such as Cambridge at the top and Hull at the bottom. The data is available I'm sure.

Just paid £2.60 to park my car for 45 minutes in Maidstone I guess we deserve it for voting in the Conversatives around here.

Parking in King Street which is in the city centre of Manchester £6.80 for two hours
Parking in THE CITY of London is £2.50 per hour

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:11 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote: Other areas of the country are often just as expensive eg food, fuel. Or even more expensive, Public transport, council tax etc. Which reminds me: £7.4m house in Westminster subject to same council tax as £155k house in Nottingham (£1300 pa).

The Chair Maker wrote: Other areas of the country are often just as expensive eg food, fuel. Or even more expensive, Public transport, council tax etc. Which reminds me: £7.4m house in Westminster subject to same council tax as £155k house in Nottingham (£1300 pa).

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:14 pm  

Hull White Star wrote:

No, you deserve to be embarrased about the nasty way they are treating the poor and vunerable members of society. I am not poor by any means in the true sense, but I am disabled and the way they have treated us is dispicable.

What? Where has this come from? You've completely lost me there.

Hull White Star wrote:

If you think its that expensive to live in Kent that you need "extra money" than why not move up North? Works both ways.

It is expensive to live here but I wasn't complaining about it.

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:16 pm  

LeightonP wrote: Which reminds me: £7.4m house in Westminster subject to same council tax as £155k house in Nottingham (£1300 pa). Make sure you don't mention the Wandsworth Council Tax rates to our friend The Chair Maker too

LeightonP wrote: Which reminds me: £7.4m house in Westminster subject to same council tax as £155k house in Nottingham (£1300 pa). Make sure you don't mention the Wandsworth Council Tax rates to our friend The Chair Maker too

Re: Is this fair? : Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:17 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

What? Where has this come from? You've completely lost me there.

You said that you deserve the high parking fees because you voted in the Tories. I just told you what, imo you really deserve and that is to be embarrassed about the way they are going about things and treating vunerable members of society.

I actually didn't think that was difficult to understand