Ghost of Surveying Past

I am @1973Surveyor In 1973 a newly chartered surveyor earned £3,200, bought a £9,000 house, married, had kids, retired at 55. In 2025: more qualifications and CPD, median £45-50k salary, £500k house. This thread is for architects, engineers and construction professionals.

@michael__3000 Post-diversity: Auferstanden aus Ruinen v2

AKTUELL: Die Fans von Dynamo Dresden skandieren für die AfD und rufen: Ost- Ost- Ostdeutschland 💙💙💙

@EmbrayHotay @grok did Clement Atlee try to stop the departure of the Empire Windrush then try to divert it to East Africa?

That Churchill biopic, 'Darkest Hour'. London was not diverse in 1940. Pure woke nonsense. Windrush wasn't until late 1940s, early 50s.

@mealfitz I was in Great Victoria Street Ulsterbus station when I saw west Africans pack their suitcases into a Dublin bus. The year was 2002.

Off the shuttle bus at Dublin airport an hour ago New Somali family with 10 suitcases just landed Is there no end to it?? Thank you #Sweden

@molloy1916 Northern Ireland was and is the safety valve between FF / SF and FG, yet it were the six counties that held out with RC Social Teaching on abortion and kept churches open during the COVID Wars.

Instead, they opted for 26 Counties and then went on to abandon every one of their original aims

@ultras_antifaa Association Football is the result of class reconciliation not class warfare. Eton was the dribbling school, Charterhouse and Westminster were the passing schools. The factories played them and formed the FA. Money and international finance formed the breakaway Premier League.

Eric Cantona: “Modern football means nothing to me. What bothers me is this: from past to present, football was played by the working class, by the poorest sections of the working class. And those people can no longer afford to buy a ticket. Football is learned by watching it in the stadium, not on television.”

@rand_longevity There's always work to do.

what do you think people are gonna do all day when nobody has to work?

@TrustlessState Does this include the AIPAC bonuses?

Unironically, congress members should be paid 600k-800k a year Strong financial compensation is a fundamental deterrent for corruption and alternative interests

@FinancialPhys Christianity has been debating this for centuries. A lifestyle of delayed gratification will likely lead to wealth later on but wonder why the wicked often prosper.

Morality causes poverty Change my mind

@nonregemesse Two things are true at the same time. Africans do this to exert dominance. When I was in South Africa, a former Rhodesian advised me to say "voet sak" at this moment (it worked). The other thing that is true in the UK is Henry Nowak's execution for perceived racism.

Why is he letting that guy touch him like that?

Did the Warsaw Pact win #Eurovision again?

I'm on £65k p.a. but it took three degrees and a chartership to get there. Between graduation and getting chartered my hourly rate often dipped under the minimum wage due to unpaid corporate overtime. My uncle was chartered by the same body after a two year debt-free diploma at night tech. He built his house in the country whereas I am stuck in a shared ownership two-bedroom leasehold flat.

The average British salary should be £65,000. It's £34,000. Fifty years of political failure. One plan to fix it. The SDP's Investment State documentary, out now:

@sparbuchfeinde I wonder how the Median Household Wealth of the DDR would have compared with the FDR's had the DDR joined the EU as an independent post-Warsaw Pact state like Slovenia.

Median Haushaltsvermögen 2025 laut EZB: 🇸🇮 Slowenien: 195.000 Euro 🇩🇪 Deutschland: 127.000 Euro Einfach mal sacken lassen. Slowenien war bis 1991 sozialistisch regiert. Die können erst seit 35 Jahren so richtig Vermögen aufbauen und sind auf gutem Weg bald doppelt so reich wie die Deutschen zu sein.

@PaulEmbery The geographical constituency system is feudal in itself. Whoever takes the seat (or le siège) would lay a claim to the land and the chattel obligated to it.

I have a lot of time for Andy Burnham, but what is going on is completely cynical - trading constituencies as if they were political commodities rather than places made up of real people with real concerns, and expecting the entire political process to be put on ice until he is safely moored. This is not what politics should be about.

@Anna_Soubry Just look at the Republic of Ireland. Its state is set up the same way as the UK's but it is a republic within the EU. Its decline tracks the UK's, Australia's, Canada's and the rest of the EU. Brexit is a symptom.

I am deleting this I despair at what our country has become. And it all stems from the #Brexit #Referendum

@jamestaylor1 I think the FIFA world cup is like Christmas - magical as a child but hard to get into when an adult.

Am I alone in feeling zero excitement or anticipation for the world cup?

@DanielPriestley At the same time, Canada was declared by the UN as the country with the highest standard of living. It looks like Australia and Canada should have quickly closed their borders to innumerable envious eyes.

I grew up in a different time. Australia around the 2000s was unbelievably great - we took it for granted, we didn't know how good we had it. The Government of the day was lead by John Howard for 11 years. His approach was to make government as small and unobtrusive as possible. Every decision was based on the idea that the "Aussie battler" should be better off. If you work hard, take risks and add value to society the government should not get in your way. They paid off the national debt. The economy was strong. There was a boom in entrepreneurship. It was easy to build housing. Life was great - possibly the best it's ever been in history. Contrast this mindset with Australia and the UK today. Both governments this week announcing higher taxes, more debt, more regulations, more restrictions on those who do the right things and more benefits for those who don't. They believe the answer to every problem is bigger government. They see the hard working, risk taking, value adding people as the piggy bank. They think the problem with millions of people who don't work or who commit disproportionate crime is that the government hasn't thrown enough money at it. I've run businesses and lived under many governments in many places now. In every case where the country is working, the government does a few things very well and aims to leave productive, law abiding people alone. In every case where things seem to be getting worse and worse, the government has the delusional belief that it can tax, borrow and spend its way to utopia. Big Government is not the answer to most things - productive, hard working, entrepreneurial, value adding members of society are the engine room and should be protected and encouraged.

@Alexarmstrong Burnham seems to be signalling that a worthy Labour leader can beat Reform in a duel.

This by-election could effectively destroy the Labour Party. That’s how severe it is for them. Can’t put into words how stupid it is for Labour to have a by-election in a seat that just swung 50% to Reform UK.

@RightSide_Uk Labour might be the first party to be torn apart by multiculturalism.

🚨 Andy Burnham — the man being quietly lined up as Keir Starmer’s replacement — has just been exposed as one of the worst enablers of Britain’s grooming gang scandal. In Oldham, when furious families of victims stormed the gallery demanding a proper public inquiry into the systematic rape of hundreds of vulnerable British girls, Burnham was one of the first to shut it down. Hard. You can see the raw pain in the footage — mothers and fathers screaming from the public seats while this Labour careerist stonewalled them to protect the “community relations” narrative. This wasn’t a one-off. As Greater Manchester Mayor, Burnham has form: refusing to discipline police officers who turned a blind eye to little girls crying out for help, sometimes even arresting the fathers trying to rescue their own daughters instead of the predators. All while the grooming gangs — mostly Pakistani-heritage men targeting white working-class girls — operated with impunity for years. Why? Because in two-tier Britain, the feelings and votes of certain communities matter more than the broken bodies and souls of our children. Burnham’s so-called “Assurance Review” was a toothless whitewash from day one — limited scope, no real survivor testimony, and designed to bury the truth rather than expose it. He spent years defending it, pretending there was “no cover-up,” only admitting the obvious when the scandal went global. Now the same man is being floated as the next Prime Minister. The same man who prioritised political correctness over protecting our daughters. The same man who watched the grooming gangs destroy lives and chose silence, denial, and deflection. This is the rotten heart of modern Labour: politicians who’ve spent decades trading British girls for bloc votes and “diversity” optics. From Rotherham to Rochdale to Oldham to Manchester — the pattern is identical, and the cover-up machine is still running. Enough. We need a full, fearless national inquiry with no limits, no sacred cows, and real consequences. Police chiefs, social workers, councillors, and MPs who looked the other way must face justice. Life must mean life for the rapists. And any politician — Burnham included — who helped bury these horrors should never hold office again. The silent majority is awake. We remember every girl failed. We remember every father arrested for trying to save his child. And we will not let the grooming gang apologists rewrite history or slither into No. 10. Protect our children. Demand real justice. No more cover-ups. 🇬🇧 #GroomingGangsCoverUp #AndyBurnhamExposed #TwoTierBritain #ProtectOurGirls #RestoreBritain #LabourFailedOurChildren

Tories Enter Coalition With Greens & LibDems to Seize Worcestershire Council From Reform order-order.com/2026/05/14/tor…

@MartinDaubney Never trust a Tory.

🚨TORIES "DO DEAL WITH GREENS & LIB DEMS" TO LOCK OUT REFORM🚨 A shock "rainbow coalition" of Tories plus Greens, Lib Dems & Independents in Worcestershire County Council means Reform has lost control Reform insider: "Vote Tory, get Polanski!"