Something positive about this government

Is DC still saying that? I bought it for about 6 months, about 6 years ago but that was it.

Wilma the social housing money? Really? Trouble is that they will allow right-to-buy tenants to buy at a heavily discounted rate - so the money that is obtained is not enough to buy land and build like for like, nowhere near enough.

I'm scratching my head here, re the OP.
Education - nope. Hell bent on academies and free schools with no proven benefit. They are doing no better than LA schools. Unnecessary upheaval of exams. Uni fees up. Funding for uni's right down - now expected to pay their way.
Health - nope,nope,nope. Just strikes.
Justice - nope prisoners up and prison funding just about to plummet
Science - nope
Environment - nope, they have gone backwards
Local government - rapidly being dismantled
Transport - well Crossrail is making good progress but that was started in the Blair years. HS2 - is anyone a fan other than Gideon? We just need rail, not HS rail, we are not a big spread out country like France.
The Economy - national debt steadily rising
size of national debt uk since 2010 - steadily increasing - just how many zeros is there in a trillion?
Because the deficit (difference between spending and tax take) is only reducing very slowly
Productivity embarrassingly bad
EU - got us into a potentially disastrous referendum (having fanned the flames of anti-immigrant feeling consistently)
Refugees - shameful lack of compassion and/or action.
Position of women in society - cuts affecting them disproportionally. But whoop de whoop - the final 5% of VAT on sanitary products is disappearing. What an achievement.

ds has had his mobility allowance taken away but is, never the less, better off than he was on the old system.

Kittylester, How does that work out? Genuinely interested.

daphne am finding your posts very strange indeed.Thought you may well live in another country as you know so little about all the house building here, and why on earth should I be bitter about what your grandchildren get financially?Your posts are very personal indeed which is a great irony as you accuse me of that very thing, are you an escapee from Mumsnet, they all sound a bit like that on there.
No Whitewave the houses are all different prices, from terraces to large detached, and in our village alone there are already over 700 built with more to come, which has doubled the size of our village.
I wish that the left wingers on here would at least listen to some even one other point of view now and again, read what * kitty* has just written for a start.

Because of the other things that his assessment triggered.

In our village,name most of the others round here, there is a huge amount of house building going on.

rose my point with regard to housing was that the salaries I quoted were what a person needs to earn now for a family home. It is immaterial what price the houses are in the Thames Valley - although I would suspect they are pretty pricy- how can the person on an average salary even hope to buy?

I too am interested kittylester , do you mean the mobility money has been taken away but the same amount given under a different name, such as not mobility allowance but extra needs allowance?

Well I can give you some
Increased MPs pay
Maintained and failed to cap Banker's Bonuses www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2961292/Bankers-set-enjoy-5BILLION-bonuses-including-2-2bn-scandal-hit-HSBC-900m-banks-bailed-taxpayer.html
Cut Corporation Tax
Mm am I seeing some sort of pattern?

That's good to hear kitty. Is it perhaps that different degrees of need are being assessed so that those who genuinely need more are able to be better funded?

Roses. Funny enough only today my D & Sil went to look at a new build.
£325,000 for a 3 bed detached in Wakering. Very good price for the location.
Perhaps it's only in the south east that they're building.

I think you are correct Anya but to be honest I'm not sure exactly how the extra is made up as he is a grown up and deals with this sort of thing himself but, as I said, he is quite a bit better off since his disability has been reassessed as different extra benefits have been triggered.

It is surely right that those in the most need receive the most help (and not just because he is our son).

People have always been able to buy new houses. It's got absolutely nothing to do with the government.

IAIN DUNCAN SMITH HAS RESIGNED!!!!!

It has just been announced on The Last Leg.
He's blaming Osborne.

BRILLIANT!!!!!

Over disability cuts! What?

What 'people' are you talking about? I thought there was no new housing which was affordable for those on low incomes.

Bit slow off the mark there, dj! There's a thread already in place.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/18/iain-duncan-smith-resignation-letter-in-full

IDS thinks the cuts are wrong anyway

Apparently Gideon wanted to reform pensions - we all know what reform means in Tory speak but call me Dave stopped him. Gideon decided according to IDS to attack the disabled instead to get his books balanced with the capital gains for the wealthy. What a lot if charmers they all are

It is of no consequence that IDS has resigned. It's just part of the game...

Want a bet on that lyn?

Bet on what ? Seen it all before, they are all dispensable. Even Thatcher, this scenario is reminiscent of that. It is of no consequence

Oh yes I agree with you there, they sre all dispensable, but there will be consequences make no mistake about that.