01-10-2017, 16:39
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Age: 45
Posts: 13,996
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Re: Government & Post Election Discussion
I'd seen that article, Andrew. There are some good policies in there and some horrid ones.
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May will promise to:
■ Freeze tuition fees at their current level Too little, too late.
■ Raise the threshold at which graduates start paying off their debt from £21,000 to £25,000 — saving graduates £360 a year. This will cost taxpayers £1.2bn Too little, too late.
■ Set up a commission to examine whether to slash existing debt and force universities to charge less than £9,000 for courses that give students less value for money. Not a bad idea, depending on who is in the commission and the findings.
In an effort to help young people onto the housing ladder, the government will:
■ Plough an extra £10bn into the Help to Buy scheme, allowing an extra 135,000 to get a low-cost loan to buy a first home I cannot face-palm hard enough to express my thoughts on this.
Everything below is all good, though.
■ Ban letting fees, which cost the average tenant £327
■ Extend the code of practice that governs letting agents to private landlords
■ Devise tax incentives to encourage landlords to offer longer tenancies.
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