Says it all. As I implied, they'd be better off in Transylvania!

We could transport them by train, nothing too luxurious mind, freight wagons and cattle trucks should suffice. There shouldn't be a great problem once they arrive, someof the Eastern European countries have previous experience in processing transportees

How about dispersing them in and around the Home Counties?

That's not a matter to be joking about.



By the way, you live in the SW don't you? Just about as far away from Hull as you can get in England!

Too expensive. The point was to reduce costs if you recall.

1. Scrap HS2 and spend the same money on new branch lines, longer trains and the stations to accommodate them, along with major road improvements.



2. Crack down on both benefit abuse and tax evasion and avoidance schemes (I don't say evasion, I say avoision)



3. Introduce rent controls along with restrictions on the number of houses a person or company can own



4. Lower VAT to 17.5%



5. Raise the basic rate of income tax to 25%



6. Large social housing programme



7. Increase the size of all branches of the armed forces but especially the army

I'd agree with all those. Point 7 - I agree from a security perspective but what's your thinking economically / deficit-wise?

I think the armed forces and especially the army is a great way of getting often uneducated/not academically minded, sometimes "lost", and nearly always poor young people into a decently paid job. Plus of course there are jobs for skilled people in areas like communications, engineering etc.

It also helps with knock-on effects like RN ships, army vehicles and equipment are generally designed and built here in the UK.

I think it would help from a security point of view in that if we're to continue to play a role on the world stage we need the forces to back it up - the RN aircraft carriers for example. But I also think it would help economically. One of the big problems in economics is trying to get the measures to help the right people. I think the armed forces, while not perfect, is a pretty good way of getting money to some people from poor areas who would have struggled to find a job and a place in society.

Another dig at Hull eh Dally.

Last time you got you anus handed to you so much that I actually felt for you whilst I tore you to shreads.



Perhaps you could find another topic you actually have a clue about...Erm.

Do you want to swap some action figures? I'll see if any of the local kids have any going spare and will PM you.

Except, it's not. For one thing, the housing markets in the two countries are not especially comparable, eg the Germans' propensity to rent rather than buy; for another, there are huge variations in rent levels from the big metropolitan areas to the rest of the country, even very large conurbations. There are various factors at play and the proposition isn't made out. An [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/mar/19/brits-buy-germans-rentarticle in the Guardian in 2011[/url suggested German rents were overall cheaper. I'd say "it just depends", and that there is no point of general application.

It must be true because all the papers are full of those stories aren't they





Tell you what, why don't you and your German Doctor friend talk to some real people on real benefits, not the made up ones in the Sun & Daily Mail.