Rallyman
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On 19/08/2018 at 21:31, Gbye grey sky said:
I just knew that Sydney experienced temperatures in the 40s last summer but wasn’t aware it was so unusual.
Lived there from 2010- 15
every year we would get a short spell of 40 plus
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4 hours ago, Marisawright said:
Every time I say Queensland is too hot for me, I get people posting to tell me I'm talking rubbish, the weather's great, or it's only hot for a few weeks a year - but the point is, heat is a very personal thing. Some people hate hot weather, some people can't stand the cold.
I think because we grow up in the UK yearning for warm weather, we're conditioned to think "the sunnier, the better". For some people, that may be true, but it's not true for everyone. One clue is to think how you react to the heat at the height of summer in, say, Seville (the coastal cities in Spain don't give you much idea because they're cooled by the sea).
Coming from the uk it will take a bit of time to acclimatise to the weather here in Australia , it’s very diffrent to the uk
we live in hunter gets very warm here in summer but I quite like it now , I have got used to it if we had come straight here from uk I think it would have been too much , it gets cold here in winter though was down to -4 last week which I also enjoy ,it takes time to adjust not going to happen over night
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On 14/08/2018 at 16:26, s713 said:
Plus, you'd have to be mad to move to Australia and live non-Metro.
Why do you think this , we live regional and love it , plenty of work for myself and wife and a life Style we could only ever dream about in uk
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On 08/08/2018 at 23:33, simmo said:
So nothing to do with the population increasing by 2.4 m over the last 5 years with 85% from immigration, or the fact that 1/3 of all births are by foreign born mothers.
You know by now Simmo , can’t let facts get in the way of a good story !
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12 minutes ago, ali said:
I think there's a number of issues, Funding , increasing population and also an ageing one.
When the NHS was founded, the life expectancy for men was mid 66's and now it's 79's. The population of the UK like a lot of countries has increased considerably from just over 23 million in 1948 to over 65 million in 2017 - that has to have some impact on resources.
Agree , it’s a number of issues and just throwing money at something will not guarantee a fix .
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2 hours ago, SWMOY04 said:
less deposit 10-15% of a million and costs?...call it 800,000...divide that by the worst muiltpier (which doesnt make sense to me as why would someone with a poor credit record be given anything upwards of 750000...)
and that gives about:
- 200000 total annual income for joint applicants or
- 266000 per annum for an individual
surely scenario 2 still reflects a high wage, relative to this discussion wouldn't you agree?
Yes agree it’s a high wage , are there that many earning that kind of money , recently built a house for an antithesis in sydney he was earning 1milion plus per annum ( all private work)
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On 08/08/2018 at 00:06, SWMOY04 said:
if he says the house are $1m plus... then you can divide the house price by a factor ranging from 3.0-3.75 or so for individual mortgage or 4.0-4.75 or so for joint mortgage
that gives you annual salary...
I think
No allowance for any deposits ?
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On 07/08/2018 at 07:02, Fisher1 said:
No you didnt, actually. You added the suggestion that the wait was possibly the result of a growing population. If you check all the stats you'll find that the NHS is underfunded a d has been for years.
So you honestly think a growing population has no bearing on the NHS waiting lists it’s all down to funding ?
While it might not be totally the cause it will have some bearing on it
maybe they need to start getting monies back for treatment of overseas patients and this will help under funding
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2 hours ago, BacktoDemocracy said:
Do you ever give up, why do you tell us all how politically ambivalent when obviously you are not.
What’s your problem ?
I wished NJ son a speedy recovery and simply asked him why he thought it was taking longer to see a doctor now than 10 years ago.
You need to go for a lie down old chap it’s all getting too much for you
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On 31/07/2018 at 20:44, newjez said:
Well for us, it's been a year since visiting the gp about my son's kidney problems to getting a date for surgery. It's just a game we are learning to play. It's seems half the battle is getting a referral for a diagnosis. If we had been more pushy from the start we probably would have got an early result.
It will have been four months since seeing the surgeon that he has his surgery, and that is for an urgent case. I do not remember it being anything like this ten years ago.
Wishing your son a speedy recovery
why do you think we are waiting longer to see doctors today compared to 10 years ago ?
Possibly an increasing population ?
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How about Newcastle , plenty of work in the city and surrounding areas , my brother lives in Coffs a great place but not as much work as Newcastle
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1 hour ago, Gbye grey sky said:
I do understand this but, in a sense, it is the same issue when it comes to free trade. Other countries pay less to workers and/or have lower rents or taxes so can undercut goods produced in your country. I guess the only answer to both is to build your business on quality, reliability and after-sales care, build and nurture a reputation. There were Polish tradesmen around where I lived in Surrey. Nothing against them by I preferred local tradesmen who came recommended.
Cash in hand whether to a Pole or any other person meant there was no record of the work done and no comeback. Never worth it as far as I was concerned. There are always going to be people who want the cheapest and then gripe later about a bad job but good tradespeople were always fully booked around our neck of the woods.
I don’t have a problem when there is a skill shortage all for it but when you have your own population struggling for work you can’t keep an open boarder policy
agree the cash economy will never be eliminated , I never advertised for my work it was always on recommendation , I prided myself on the quality , service and dedication I gave to my customers
The same principles I apply here in oz
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11 minutes ago, newjez said:
Seems to me you were highlighting the problems with the black market, people fudging qualifications and taking cash in hand.
What has that got to do with immigration? Or are immigrants more likely to break the law?
Sort of proves my point you don’t understand , how would you feel if One day 50,000 turned up and started taking your work ,because they will work for less , no refelection on your skill or ability to do the job just they will work for less money and next thing your wages are going down and less work about , this is the fact of what you deal with when you have open boarders
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9 minutes ago, Gbye grey sky said:
Thatcher may have helped hasten the demise of coal mining (though I feel militant unionists inadvertently played a part too) and other heavy industries which predominated in the north of England, Wales and Scotland but the writing was on the wall for them anyway.
Just looking at coal. Long before 1980 the economics of deep mining coal was not stacking up. In 1980 there were still 237,000 jobs in coal mining but this was down from over 600,000 in 1960 and a peak of 1,200,000 in 1920. This was an industry of the past - even in 1980.
Can’t speak for shipbuilding but it was becoming increasingly apparent that Britain’s pre-eminence in this was at an end due to increased competition from Asia and elsewhere.
I think that living outside of the affected areas actually provides you with a greater sense of perspective and a better grasp of the bigger picture. I understand that Thatcher remains a polarising figure but I feel that her standpoint was proven to be correct ultimately.
Can’t disagree with any of that except living out side gives a greater grasp of the situation , having lived through it , it was hell , you felt worthless and at the end of the day you just wanted to get work to pay your way and a roof over your head.
what I didn’t understand then as a young man and to this day was why the government never had a plan after all these men were made unemployed , the Tory’s wasted all the North Sea oil money paying a welfare state bill , there were some highly skilled men in that workforce who were just left to rot , the world has moved on since those days where more work can be done by less people and more productively , so an even great emphasis to control immigration not open boarder policy
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1 hour ago, newjez said:
It is hard to generate investment when you have constant industrial action. But the fault lay equally with poor management. Different classes who didn't speak.
Things seem to be better now. Because of Maggie? Because of the EU?
I don't know, I wasn't living here at the time. But something shifted.
You never lived in the uk when Thatcher was in power , you live in the south east of the uk which has been in its own bubble for 35 years or more , My dads family are from Shoreham , they had a boat yard down by the docks .
Thatcher decimated the uk north of Watford gap and some areas have never fully recovered ,
Its been a boom bust cycle for 30 years or more
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1 hour ago, newjez said:
We always hire recommended tradesmen. People are mad if they don't. Price is important, but we haven't hired the cheapest for our extension.
Most companies pick the middle quote.
As I said, 19 out of twenty tradesmen were English.
As for cheating and cash in hand. No amount of regulation can stop people prepared to break the law. But you could always report them.
Not answering any of the points I raised highlighting the problem with open door immigration policy
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8 hours ago, newjez said:
Which has led to much higher rates of immigration than in the UK, so it can't be that strict can it? Or how else do you explain that?
Immigration rates are dropping not increasing you are not making any sense
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6 hours ago, newjez said:
IT - one of the industries most affected by immigration. But I work with them. I do very well.
To be honest - if someone can't compete against someone who barely speaks English - then they don't deserve a job.
But at the same time, you need standards for trades, and you need employment laws to protect the domestic population.
But, you also need to look at the big picture. Is it better to have inefficient expensive companies when others can do it for much less, often better? Is the standard of building in the UK less than it was in the 70's?
What you are suggestion is protectionism. It's not a good thing, unless it is in the countries strategic interests.
In short - why should I pay you more when someone else can do the job better and for free?
The point I made completely shows you have no understanding of how things work
your comment about competeing against somebody who can’t speak English is very insulting and shows how bigoted a view you have , the government brought in the equivalent of the white card a number of years ago ,I attended my course out of 25 there were only 3 of us who spoke English the rest all Eastern Europeans , One guy answered all the questions for the other 22 they all worked on a large site in a local city working for less than locals , you just can’t compete against that , you have no idea sorry.
my company was a legitimate business ,fully insured , payed tax and employed 3 full time staff , I have fixed overheads that I have to cover ,I can never compete with cowboys coming along and doing it for “cash “ the last job I lost to some polish builders they quoted for labour and materials at the cost I could buy the materials for ,my quote was £300 more than his cheapest and £500 less than the most expensive ( the client had got 3 quotes ) , then the polish builder comes in 12k cheaper than all of us
had a phone call 4 weeks later can I come and have a look as he didn’t think the job was being done right. I declined
I am all for immigration but you can’t have a open door policy , I am a immigrant into Australia when there is a shortage in a specific field fair enough but not when guys have no work you can’t keep allowing any body to turn up
And your last comment is a perfect example of today’s problem , how cheap can you do it and how quick how much for cash
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24 minutes ago, newjez said:
Can you show me where high levels of immigration have led to high levels of unemployment please within the EU?
The market is self regulating.
The problem is the Euro - as that removes the ability to regulate economies.
Remove the euro and the EU would be a much better place
Don’t know what area you work in , but I had first hand expireance of eu nations taking work off me because they would do it for less and cash , as I was registered for vat at the time there was nothing I could do.
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1 minute ago, newjez said:
Gosh - that wouldn't be because of the end of the mining boom would it?
Who would have thought labour markets could be self regulating?
I'm not a fan of open borders I have to admit. If you have criminals in other countries - you should be able to keep them out. I don't believe we should be given benefits to immigrants before they have earned the right to them. Medical and schools - yes and know - possibly if we had decent affordable medical insurance.
But the points system is not the holy grail that people seem to think it is.
I'm not a fan of free movement of people - but I don't object to free movement of workers. I am quite right wing in my economics - I do understand the need for controls at times, but controls nearly always add inefficiency to a market, and I believe the less the better - up to a point. That point being GFC type events.
More mines opening up on the east coast specifically coal , wa may have slowed but that is not the case here in the hunter and further north it’s ramping up again, as you well know Australia has a strict immigration policy it’s not an open boarder like the eu
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19 hours ago, newjez said:
Australia has massive levels of immigration.
It’s at its lowest for 10 years I think , only caught the tail end of the report I think it said 163k came in last 12 months
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Not strictly gold hunting , Dad used to be a very keen metal detecorist , he had a couple of the top machines available at the time he found 100’s of Roman coines , James 1st right through to current coins
He also found a virtually brand new Rolex in Blackpool beach one day ( had it checked out a genuine one ) but his pride and joy was the 6 Bronze Age axe heads he found just outsude of Mold , N wales which he donated to the museum of wales for every one to see it was as if they had just been made so sharp amazing the fact they had been buried for around 3500 years
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1 hour ago, bunbury61 said:
another glass half full post again .
you can always go back to oz or over to europe and leave us in peace
Don’t want his negativity here in oz B61
Peter Dutton resigns
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Will TA try and make a comeback ?