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  1. 1 hour ago, Xann said:

    That was 2023.

    Early runners for the 2024 Welsh Music Prize?  :) 

     

     

    Yeah, I liked that.

    It feels like a bit of a slower start this year than last year. 2023 I’d committed to buying something every month and by end of March I was on two a month and missing a good few. 

    My fave for this year is still Motherland by Angharad at the moment, but a long way to go.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

    It’s a hard question, and an interesting one, too. I feel like anything I say, that attempts to be serious, sounds really pretentious, but I do think it has something to do with the more distinctive English identity of Small Faces with very English cultural references? Maybe? Entirely different music, but a bit like Blur, who never really caught fire in the USA. 
     

    Frampton in United States was a little more at least at first, of a kind of teen idol, but a little more mystical and deep, somehow. The lyrics aren’t exactly Chaucer. 

    I mean, personally, Frampton was second in Humble Pie and then that singing down a straw schtick didnt really do it for me.

    I get the point about the Englishness of Small Faces though, I think that’s fair. 

     

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  3. 12 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

    How come Britain never really embraced Peter Frampton? What’s the matter with you people? I don’t get it.  😉😁🧐

    How come the U.S. never really embraced Steve Marriott?

    I mean, what position did Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake achieve in the U.S.?

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  4. 1 hour ago, blandy said:

    Except it doesn't all go out of the window. If the keys are handed back the shareholders and pension funds and logistics get **** over. 

    If "the keys are handed back" then that's because the shareholders (and therefore the actual owners) either own shares which have already plummeted in value, because the Company is bust, or they have authorised the board to hand the keys back, via an EGM and vote and they voluntarily take the loss of their shares. If the company is bust, and unable to get the shareholders to stump up money to rescue it, or to allow a new share issue (thus devaluing existing shares), then the Gov't would have to intervene to ensure the taps keep flowing with water, but that's a case different from "nationalising all water companies".

    It's simplistic in the extreme if anyone were to think that "nationalising it" fixes everything. Yes, it shouldn't ever have been privatised, but no, a government deciding to reverse that model with water would have huge adverse consequences, as well as creating some opportunities to run it all differently. But stuff would still need fixing, people would still see bills rise, pollution would still need stopping and reservoirs building.

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    After 35 years of extracting profit, if they can’t continue to make the level of profit they want in the next 3 years, just because some woke trouble maker doesn’t want to see turds on the beaches, the rest doesn’t matter.

     

  5. They’ll stay private until private decides it’s a pain in the arse and not worth the effort, at which point all talk of pension funds and resources and logistics goes out the window because MrPrivateWater Plc just handed the keys back.

    It just needs an environment where extracting profit is just not worth the effort for companies that aren’t actually in it for everyone’s long term benefit.

    Like with trains.

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  6. 15 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said:

    I make no moral judgement about people's personal choices; working your nuts off to buy an asset you will have to maintain and which someone else will get to realise, should not be considered more virtuous than buying a Ford Capri, or otherwise enjoying yourself.

    Chomsky is of the opinion that house purchase was encouraged by the state because people with mortgages tend not to go on strike; an opinion I have heard echoed by several of my bosses.

    Thatcher's expressed dream of a property-owning democracy was code for the exact same thing.

    Selling off council houses was probably meant to achieve the same outcome - creating a docile insecure workforce with fewer political choices.

    I would also suggest that the diminishing shelf-life of relationships these days, makes renting a more sensible option.

     

     

     

    Hmmm, you were asking if kids today had a greater sense of entitlement.

    I suggested they didn’t.

    For further evidence, I would refer you to the film Quadrophenia for the yoof / older generation friction played out to a half decent soundtrack.

     

  7. 4 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said:

    What I was getting at, was whether Gen Z-ers who are trying to get on the housing ladder have greater sense of entitlement, when it comes to leisure and consumption, than previous generations.

    For me personally, I had to work through my phase of fancy holidays and buying crap, before I could accumulate enough for a deposit on something absolutely minimal.

    All my furniture was from junk shops and my vehicle was based on the logic of bangernomics.

     

    I suspect we have to be careful and not presume the frivolous ones you’ll be seeing on their sunny instagram hols are representative of all of them. Very possibly, when you were working through your salad days, some of your contemporaries were drinking the money they had left once they’d bought that shiny Ford Capri. Just as right now, some kids will have a hand me down sofa and be working 6 days a week on a zero hours contract.

     

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  8. 47 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said:

    If you do this it has to be a legitimate transaction.  You'll need boiler checks, carbon monoxide detectors and tenancy agreements.  The rent you pay to your kids will be taxed.  They will need to make tax returns.  Its not as easy as it seems. 

     

    Feels like a less dispiriting end than handing it over to the Pleasant View Care Facility plc..

     

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  9. 42 minutes ago, Rds1983 said:

    If you do decide to sell your house to your kids, assuming that you do it on the cheap then make sure you consider the potential tax implications.

    My understanding is selling it for a quid is a problem, and selling it within 7 years of death is a problem. But selling it to OurHouse2024 Ltd., for a few tens of thousands, and paying rent to OurHouse2024 Ltd of a few tens of thousands and living 8 years is acceptable.

    That’s a very abbreviated version, but there is a route. Just an idea for now.

  10. At some point in the next few years I think we might be selling our house to our kids and then renting it back from them.

    That appears to be the safest way of attempting to get our major asset over to them rather than over to a care home for 8 months of school dinners or whatever you get for a few hundred thousand these days.

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  11. It is a bloody bugger of a problem, too few younger people to back fill all the job roles and play keepy uppy with the GDP.

    I just hope that once they’ve stopped all this immigration it’s the next thing they turn their laser focus on.

     

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  12. There are 1,700 second homes, or long term vacant homes in neath Port Talbot. The local authority have just voted to increase rates for these properties to 200% above ‘normal’ rates. That is, you’ll now be paying 300% rates on an empty property or second home.

    It’ll be interesting to see at what price point this actually impacts the number of empty and second homes. In the meantime, the LA are estimating this will raise £2.4million in additional revenue, or release homes back on to the market.

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