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Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Sun 18 Apr, 2010 23.39
by Chie
Sput wrote:By describing it as bonkers you're suggesting there's no rational basis for doing any of them. How confident are you of that, chie? I mean, do you think if I hit a couple of search engines for half an hour I might be able to turn up something that suggests it's not insane or that if I ran the numbers for your "house" it'd be realistic?
I'm not saying there's not a rational basis for doing *any* of them, but quite a few of them are just bizzare.
And I *know* that if I'd started working when I was 18, I would have saved roughly £30,000 by now, which is a deposit and then some. And a car.
What makes you think otherwise?
Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Sun 18 Apr, 2010 23.45
by Sput
So I heard you're 22? That's 7.5 grand a year essentially spare
On the minimum wage
With rent, taxes, food, bills and actually experiencing being a human?
Shall I run those numbers?
Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Sun 18 Apr, 2010 23.47
by Jovis
Sput wrote:On the minimum wage
Remember, it's the minimum wage for younger people.
Please do, Sput.
Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Sun 18 Apr, 2010 23.49
by Chie
23 next month.
Go ahead, if you really want to. You'll need to factor in the £13,800 I've earned since I was 17 through self-employment (which I could do alongside a full-time job) and the fact I've never been asked to pay board.
Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Sun 18 Apr, 2010 23.55
by Sput
So not only have one job, but TWO? How about transport to this mythical day job?
Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Mon 19 Apr, 2010 00.02
by Chie
Sput wrote:So not only have one job, but TWO? How about transport to this mythical day job?
That's hard to say, as it depends where the mythical job is, doesn't it? It could be within walking distance or it could be 10 miles away, in which case an annual unlimited travel card costs £630 per year. But I think walking/cycling distance is more likely.
Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Mon 19 Apr, 2010 00.03
by Sput
Please tell me you realise how unrepresentative of almost every normal human being you are
Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Mon 19 Apr, 2010 14.05
by WillPS
Sput wrote:
what i THINK he's suggesting is that it might not be okay to have a chancellor with ties to an industry that's heavily taxed and the focus of government policy.
I know, MENTAL isn't he.
Spot on.
Re: Vince Cable as The Chancellor
Posted: Mon 19 Apr, 2010 23.57
by GavBelfast
WillPS wrote:Sput wrote:
what i THINK he's suggesting is that it might not be okay to have a chancellor with ties to an industry that's heavily taxed and the focus of government policy.
I know, MENTAL isn't he.
Spot on.
Clearly, such a role would be incompatible with a being a Government minister.
But I think the view that he is much better qualified than any of the three would-be Chancellors holds.