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Originally Posted by Houseboy
........We are also now suffering a chronic shortage of affordable housing ...........they opposed the reducing of the voting age to eighteen .
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With historic high prices of land, anyone who thinks "affordable housing" is realistic they're living in cloud cuckoo land. The days are long gone when one man with an average wage could provide for his family and realistically buy a house with a mortgage valued at 2.1/2 times his annual wage. Excepting for managers, most workers these days have low wages and/or are only working part time. Even at 3 times their annual wage, neither of my two uni. educated offspring could obtain a mortgage for a modest £120K terraced house.
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I've seen a couple of children's parliaments held in the House of Commons and if the politicians lower the voting age to sixteen I'll emigrate.
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