Chomper Higgot

I’m not ignoring anything. Here’s a simple fact, you argue the affordability of houses on the basis of a particular region’s prices and the national wage average. I have provided the specific wage average for the region for which you quoted house prices, and no surprise at all it’s significantly lower than the national wage average. Blowing a gaping hole in your argument. You’ve been comparing apples with oranges and don’t like me calling out your misleading use of prices and wages. Please forgive me for having done so.

Proves your point by replacing the national average wages you are using as the basis of your argument with the very much lower local wage data. Give up with the utter nonsense.

I expect a bit of made up stuff on your part: “As of October 2023, approximately 9.7 percent of businesses in the United Kingdom were experiencing worker shortages. Over a quarter of accommodation and food sector businesses had a staff shortage at this time, the most of any industry sector.” https://www.statista.com/statistics/1369216/uk-worker-shortages-by-sector/#:~:text=As of October 2023%2C approximately,most of any industry sector.

Let me help you out with average wages in Devon, so that you can argue local house price affordability on the basis of local wages. https://www.totaljobs.com/salary-checker/average-employee-salary-devon

Oh and forget wage increases over the same period.

Says guy offering up house prices in Devon and arguing they are affordable on the basis of ‘national wage averages’. What a mess.

What’s the average age of first time buyers in your area and the average income of people at that age in the same area? Or do yo want to stick with arguing local prices v national average incomes?

Yes teacher.

Schrödinger‘s immigrants, both and at the same time penniless, skilless, welfare seekers and inflating the cost of houses. How many times a day do you blame immigrants Jonny?

Now all you have to recognize young people are being priced out of the market. House price inflation, low wages, insecure employment, and importantly the buy to let industry in direct competition with young people for low cost homes.

I’ve read the comments thank you.

Far fewer young people are getting on the housing ladder and many who do are doing so with a bung from mummy and daddy or grandparents. https://blackstonesresidential.com/revealed-how-much-parents-give-their-children-to-help-them-buy-a-home/

Not much use to some who needs a home near where they work in the home counties.

That started with a pleasant surprise, I was in complete agreement with your first two sentences. Then you went back to your same old.

You don’t seem to understand mathematics. The ‘Average salary’ is weighted higher by people who earn very high salaries and weighted on all salary scales by age. The data that matters is income of people in the age bracket 20 -35, and of course whether or not that income is secure, do they, for example, have a full 40hr per week permanent employment contract or are they on short term/zero hours contracts.

Says Johnson fanboy. But please do produce your evidence that the Home Secretary is lying.

As I was saying.

Some folk are only happy when they’re miserable.

This will stir outrage amongst those who never attend church.

Isn’t this a re-hash of a previous topic? NYP doing their bit to rain on the Democrat Convention.

So those extra 300 places in detention centers, an extra 300 case officers, 100 new intelligence officers. Is The Telegraph telling lies?

I absolutely agree, moreover I don’t know anyone that does disagree with deporting bogus asylum seekers. But here’s a thing Jonny, they first need to have their claim assessed, something the last Government had failed to do resulting in a backlog of over a thousand cases while the Government cut funding to the immigration service. As this article points out, the new Labour Home Secretary is taking positive steps to address the mess she inherited, I’m only surprised you aren’t backing her and wishing her every success.

This is going to get interesting.

Or anyone else. Staged performance is my guess.

It seems the Home Secretary has hit the ground running. She of course needed to given the utter shambles the Tories left rotting. Hardly a shift, it’s a development of the already imitated measures quoted above. So the Home Secretary is getting on with the job he predecessor failed to do, and look ladies and gentlemen at who’s doing all the moaning.