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[trigger_andy]

3 hours ago, htb said:

Didn't realise the SNP handed out the drugs, I'm not a SNP fan BTW.

 

Was in Port Glasgow chemists the other day picking up a perscription for mum, sad to see the locals coming in for their methadone dose, what a way to live.

If you never realised the SNP handed out drugs then perhaps you where on them when you wrote the second part of your reply  

[htb]

IIRC the handing out of methadone started before the SNP were in control, so its not happened exclusively their on their watch.

By saying handing out Drugs I was referring to cocaine meth etc, not methadone

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, htb said:

IIRC the handing out of methadone started before the SNP were in control, so its not happened exclusively their on their watch.

By saying handing out Drugs I was referring to cocaine meth etc, not methadone

It may well have started before the SNP where in power but they've been in power for how long now? They have had ample time and opportunity to turn this shocking statistic around but have failed miserably.

 

I guess its not something they really want to do, why rock the boat of their voter base, huh?  

 

It matters not to which drug you where personally referring to, the fact of the matter is the SNP dish out shockingly high doses of drugs at the very same chemists family's, generally uwnwittingly, pop into on a daily basis. My wife was a Dispensing Technician and could tell you a few horror stories, and thats in a small town. 

[Honda]

3 hours ago, htb said:

IIRC the handing out of methadone started before the SNP were in control, so its not happened exclusively their on their watch.

By saying handing out Drugs I was referring to cocaine meth etc, not methadone

The problem originated even further back than that: Shuggie Bain

 

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (goodreads.com)

Edited July 30, 2021 by Honda

[Steve Bullman]

4 minutes ago, Big J said:

It's not exactly news, but I found this to be an interesting and succinct summary of the housing crisis in the UK. 

 

 

I have honestly got no idea how anyone starting out could afford to get onto the housing ladder now and fully expect the market to crash in the coming years as increasing interest rates make mortgages completely unaffordable for millions of people.

They’ve been saying the market needs to crash for years yet it never does.

 

realistically I think the only thing that could really make it crash is a big decline in population and therefore demand.

[nepia]

The housing market has always been a boom-bust one and I don't expect that to change.  I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand all the economics but yes, the market will dip in line with history but I just don't know when or exactly why!

[Stere]

 

 

Small fluctuation or plateaus might happen  but look long term trend since  1970's

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by Stere

[Steve Bullman]

18 minutes ago, nepia said:

The housing market has always been a boom-bust one and I don't expect that to change.  I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand all the economics but yes, the market will dip in line with history but I just don't know when or exactly why!

I foolishly waited 16 years for it to crash whilst wasting probably close to £150,000 renting, give up in the end and bought. It will be just my luck for it to crash now though.

[Commando]

It's not exactly news, but I found this to be an interesting and succinct summary of the housing crisis in the UK. 
 
 
I have honestly got no idea how anyone starting out could afford to get onto the housing ladder now and fully expect the market to crash in the coming years as increasing interest rates make mortgages completely unaffordable for millions of people.

Why will it crash? There’s still plenty people with money wanting to buy, whether it’s 1st or second homes or properties to invest in. I think your maybe falling into that trap of predicting the future to fit ur own agenda.
I know plenty young lads in agriculture that have knuckled down and saved hard, laid off the booze and done the graft and have brought property.

IMHO too many seem to think it’s a right to own a house….It ain’t, you gotta work for it.
Also people forget the 80s when the interest rate was averaging over 10%. Massive chunk of monthly wage just in interest.

[eggsarascal]

17 minutes ago, Commando said:

Why will it crash? There’s still plenty people with money wanting to buy, whether it’s 1st or second homes or properties to invest in. I think your maybe falling into that trap of predicting the future to fit ur own agenda.
I know plenty young lads in agriculture that have knuckled down and saved hard, laid off the booze and done the graft and have brought property.

IMHO too many seem to think it’s a right to own a house….It ain’t, you gotta work for it.
Also people forget the 80s when the interest rate was averaging over 10%. Massive chunk of monthly wage just in interest.

Correct it is doable for youngsters, my nephew and his partner moved into their first home yesterday. Only his wage due to his partner going back to uni to do a masters, as you say he stopped going out with his mates every night, missed holidays abroad with the lads and kept hold of his old car. He's got there mind.

 

I also remember the interest rates in the 80's, virtually everyone I knew was just hanging on.

 

The other thing these days is, everyone thinks they should have a 5 bed pitch with a yard, or a shiny new gaff on the new development, no way do they want to start with a terraced house in the back streets of town.