58% and rising

[Taintedice]

What did they do to Dundee?

Gave thousands the opportunity to get on the housing ladder?

Thank **** the socialist Dundee public didn't go along with that eh😉

"What's that oot the windae dad"....."ach just socialist principles son"......"Maggie Maggie Maggie out out out" 🙄

But Maggie was another who wasn't really a conservative just in the conservative party.

A bit like Tony Blair in reverse.

obviously that's not a serious question. The right to buy scheme wasn't thatcher's brainchild although it took off under her dictatorship and generally benefited the middle-classes far more. Too bad it ruined housing opportunities for every generation afterwards, people now living with their parents till well in their 30s and 40s.

[GB72]

obviously that's not a serious question. The right to buy scheme wasn't thatcher's brainchild although it took off under her dictatorship and generally benefited the middle-classes far more. Too bad it ruined housing opportunities for every generation afterwards, people now living with their parents till well in their 30s and 40s.

What percentage of 40 plus are still living with their parents?

[islaydarkblue]

Depends how you define a generation - some reckon four years is a generation.

Last January my MSP Michael Russell told me in an email he considered that a generation could be as a short as four years. He then asked me how long i thought that a generation was. I replied that the minimum by law in Scptland could be just over 16 years as the minimum legal age for marriage in Scotland is 16 years old but in my opinion it was between 20 and 25 years.
Michael Russell did not reply to my email!!!

[islaydarkblue]

It was suppose to replace the old rates system and was unfair, hence it getting abolished after a few years. The council tax is fairer imo and also localised.

The council tax is no different from the rates system.
The rates system was also localised as every year each council set their own rate in the £ under the old rates system.

[islaydarkblue]

England itself has a deficit so it's factually incorrect to say London/SE susidises the whole of the UK. You really are ignorant, aren't you.

It takes one to know one.

[Deeranged]

Last January my MSP Michael Russell told me in an email he considered that a generation could be as a short as four years. He then asked me how long i thought that a generation was. I replied that the minimum by law in Scptland could be just over 16 years as the minimum legal age for marriage in Scotland is 16 years old but in my opinion it was between 20 and 25 years.
Michael Russell did not reply to my email!!!

Again you're completely wrong.

A generation is defined as all of the people born and living at about the same time. So, although I may not think this is how I would define a generation, to say that someone born in 2000 was born about the same time as someone born in 2014 is simply wrong.

If someone chooses to use four years as the rough measure of the length of a generation there is nothing anyone can do to challenge that opinion. Not even when a different opinion has been formed by a pig headed old Tory.

[islaydarkblue]

Rather have a tax system where everything is taxed on what you buy, like in Florida fir example...

Plus everyone that is here on holiday contributes as well....

Council tax grossly unfair

I previously suggested this in a previous post band I got shot down in flames.
A local sales tax is the fairest way as everyone who spends money in a local authority area contributes.
The people who live outwith the Dundee City Council area but do their shopping in Dundee would contribute to the cost of running Dundee City Council through a local sales tax.
In my opinion there are far too many local authorities in Scotland each employing far too many bosses on high salaries.
I would scrap all the local authorities and bring back the Regional Councils throughout Scotland. However this time I would not have District Councils as they were a waste of time and only introduced as a sop to the old Burgh councils such Monifieth Burgh Council and Carnoustie Burgh Council.

[islaydarkblue]

Again you're completely wrong.

A generation is defined as all of the people born and living at about the same time. So, although I may not think this is how I would define a generation, to say that someone born in 2000 was born about the same time as someone born in 2014 is simply wrong.

If someone chooses to use four years as the rough measure of the length of a generation there is nothing anyone can do to challenge that opinion. Not even when a different opinion has been formed by a pig headed old Tory.

Hi Deeranged. You seem to be an expert on every topic discussed on this forum so how long do you consider a generation to be.

[Deeranged]

Hi Deeranged. You seem to be an expert on every topic discussed on this forum so how long do you consider a generation to be.

I'm no expert. All I know is that you mostly post pish.

I have no clear idea of what I consider to be a generation however for me four years is a bit short. Your suggested 16 years, based on some strange and outdated notion surrounding legal age of consent, is possibly nearer to where I'd like to be. 25 years is way too much.

[dayster]

Hi Deeranged. You seem to be an expert on every topic discussed on this forum so how long do you consider a generation to be.

There is no legal definition of a generation in Scots law or that of the rest of the UK. The convention is to fall back on previous legal precedents for definition. The best known example of a generation being set on a referendum is through the Good Friday Agreement which defines a generation as 7 years to allow for reunification referendums after this time period elapses.

Much closer to the view of Mr Russel than to Mr Tott however who both sharing personal opinions that would be hard to substantiate in a legal setting.