At 3% inflation (let's face it, it's loads higher than that. £103 today won't buy what £100 bought in a shop 1 year ago) £360,000 will be worth what your £200,000 is worth now. You'll be making a mortgage payment not much over half of what a renter will be paying who was making the same payments as you initially.
On top of that you have a big asset you can sell any time.
The average UK mortgage is £200,000 at 5% over 25 years.
Total repayment? £350,000.
You borrow £200K and pay back £350K.
£150,000 straight to the bank.
For nothing.
Then you pay to fix up the house.
Stuff breaks.
You pay insurance monthly.
Fees when/if you sell the property.
And we act like renting is throwing money away.
There is a strong argument for renting.
@zarahussain999 What you described as the opposite literally regularly happens, often at the hate marches. The media don't care in the slightest and the police certainly don't prosecute it.
A group of aggressive Jewish men intimidate a Muslim Al Jazeera journalist who was there to report on the Golders Green ambulance incident.
They shout “Al Jazeera off our streets,” “Go home,” and “terrorist.”
Their behaviour is a disgrace. If a group of Muslim men behaved like this towards a Jewish journalist, the reaction on social media would be different.
Islamophobia is unacceptable.
Dude, while the truck was cleared you still look before crossing an active runway. The crj 900 was only doing about 25kts (end of landing roll) and would have had huge, bright white landing + taxiing lights.
Yes the fire truck was cleared, no if they looked right they wouldn't have missed the jet. Pretty standard training that a pilot looks for traffic before manoeuvring, I imagine for airport ground crew it's the same.
Not saying it's their fault but claiming they wouldn't see a jet in the dark is wrong.
Clearly see at night? On a runway that is lit for the visibility for the aircraft and not ground traffic. Ground traffic that is strictly under the supervision and authority of the ATC in charge. There is no traffic lights 🚥 for vehicles to pass lanes, you go when ATC tells you to go or hold. By the time ATC realizes a plane is on top of the truck it’s too late, the plane slams into the rear of the truck.
Important note regarding the accident at LaGuardia Airport. United 2384 wanted to return to gate. Odor in back of plane. Pilot couldn’t raise anyone at United to help get him a gate. Air traffic controller tried to help. There were no gates. Pilot asked for fire truck. 1/2
Agree completely.
Seems totally reasonable to apply to study somewhere, get in, then take the country you should be greatful to to court to get your family in.
Yes this person is exactly the type of person we want, ready to fit into our society.
And I'm sure they won't be out protesting every week shouting free Palestine either.
Honestly fucked up.
No students should come to this country and bring dependants
If you come - you come alone. I didn’t take my whole family to Australia with me when I went.
If you want to come and study abroad - that’s a sacrifice you have to make .
We must stop the dependants scam
So 5 years ago I was debanked, but one bank in particular is giving me hell to get my money back: @HSBC_UK
HSBC Business closed my account in 2021, sent an account closure letter with a CHECK!! (which I obviously couldn't cash because I got debanked 🙄) then I finally managed to open a business account with Revolut, but still can't cash the check because they do not accept checks.
I spent countless hours in HSBC branch to verify my ID and in February I finally managed to get them to agree to an electronic transfer.
Now I am literally calling them every day chasing the status of the electronic transfer and every single call is a new lie or excuse.
You’re literally keeping my funds hostage. GIVE ME MY MONEY NOW!
@zarahussain999@RupertLowe10 Why should British people have to put up with their streets being blocked by guests?
No one else has the cheek to do this as guests in other countries.
@AyoubKhanMP The loyalty of the non-extremist Muslims to the extremist Muslims is the problem.
Join the fight against them and it will change public perception a lot. ...but you won't.
As a British Muslim, I refuse to accept biased narratives that conflate the actions of a few with millions of law-abiding British Muslims. We contribute to every part of our society. Media outlets and politicians that fuel division for their own gain will be challenged!
@elliemcestrella@RupertLowe10 Pretty deluded imo.
If I live, work and pay tax in another country I'm still a guest and cannot demand they keep me even if I hate them or decide to not contrribute anymore.
The message to all guests in our country must be this.
Speak English, pay tax, contribute, respect our way of life, follow our laws and love Britain.
Do all that, or go home.
@Boyintheband@RupertLowe10 You're right but this is their country which is a seperate issue.
It doesn't mean we have to accept people from across the globe who are nothing to do with us that do not meet those (basic) standards.
@RupertLowe10 I’m not sure that the majority of UK born citizens tick all those boxes. Plenty of rich British tax dodgers, non-doms and other economic migrants to mediaeval Middle Eastern states who don’t seem to give a toss about Britain other than to complain about it whole extracting money
They expect this - removing a fundamental right to be tried by your peers rather than a single individual who can have their own bias or beliefs to reduce the backlog by...... 2%.
You honestly think they are worth getting rid of just so your example of 5 years becomes ...4 years and 11 months?
@JamesMelville@PeacheyGabriel In a perfect world right to Jury trials would be the way, though victims and wrongfully accused can wait years for justice, the disgusting case below took the victim 5 years to get justice. Every avenue needs to be looked at to improve the situation. news.sky.com/story/mother-w…
Here’s the list of the 304 MPs who voted to end the right to jury trials. All of them are Labour MPs. This is an affront to British justice. They have ripped the heart out of a constitutional principle. Shameful.
@TomRose@RupertLowe10@roodio@ZackPolanski Not a real stun, the animal has to be able to wake up from it and they often do.
You are either nieve or a liar, I suspect both.
Ideology > animals is just disgusting you scumbag.
@RupertLowe10@roodio@ZackPolanski Probably because most halal meat in the UK is already pre-stunned, so this isn’t about animal welfare - it’s just another culture war swipe at Muslims and Jews.
@DigitalFringed1 I definitely notice a difference and i even notice a difference in mental clarity/memory at about 10 grams.
Or at least I thought I did.
I stopped taking creatine several weeks ago and like some have reported, I see zero difference. I was taking it for the reported benefits to lack of sleep, but again, I notice no difference. Will not be taking it going forward.
@TRobinsonNewEra Tommy bitch , when your thugs attack Muslims you showcase it as self defence and you say how brave these white thugs are that are defending their girlfriend or some shits like that but when it is migrants beating up your friends , then you shed crocodile tears. Both are wrong
@ThinkingObservr@KathrynPorter26@georgeeaton And that is the illusion; it is not almost free.
Setting up 10,000 connectors to 10,000 windmills with 1000 miles of cable which needs to be serviced is not cheap.
If renewables were "almost free" they would not need subsidies to compete with gas (funds the subsidies).
The main reason UK energy prices are so high is not net zero but the fact the price of gas still sets the price of electricity. Breaking that link should be the priority.
Hey drivers!
Fun fact: these cyclists on their daily commute, who probably don't even own a car, pay as much towards the roads, the upkeep of roads, and the building of roads as drivers do.
Just so we're clear
@BenedictSpence Building renewables so we can do as China and free ourselves of the vagaries of international oil and gas prices in these globally volatile times ….
This week could kill Net Zero in the UK. Not immediately – Labour will try to double down, and the policy has many useful idiot fans – but people are about to be battered by a new energy crisis, and will justifiably ask what on Earth their politicians have been playing at.