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[xenophanean]

An at least somewhat productive evening.

I have delivered a whole hell of a lot of clothes to Julian's and filled in most of an application form for a job I'm increasingly dubious whether I want. Whether I do or I don't it's certainly expanded (or at least, strained) the limits of my application form completing abilities. Sometime you have to really stretch to see how you fit into them competencies. It also appears to have given me a taste for writing, hence the entry.

I've decided to start a Tony Blair monitoring file, as many of my previous predictions about the way the government is going appear to have been accurate. The only way you can truly tell if you're accurate though, is by writing the predictions down and waiting to see if they happen.

One prediction which I certainly told people about (I and they were probably drunk, so it's unlikely that anyone will remember, but anyway...) was that we would be seeing incentives for people to get together in couples as it's more effiecient. I've just found a potential example of this. In future, there's going to be no discount at all from Council Tax for living on your own, so if you are, from a Council Tax point of view, at least, you may as well get another person to share the tax with you. It'll be interesting to see if the benefits laws change to follow suit, i.e. single occupiers no longer getting far more benefit than sharers, meaning unemployed people have to share their residency.

(I know it's a pretty narrow field of information I'm looking at here, but it's something I deal with a lot, and, as they say on 'Catchphrase': "Say what you see!")

Comments

[fire-sermon.livejournal.com]

Was the council tax thing an example of a prediction or an example of a prediction that's coming true? If so, that would really penalise the elderly - ie, widows living on their own.

[xenophanean.livejournal.com]

I am led to beleive that it's a prediction that is coming true, following the drop of empty property discount from 50% to 10%, it's now often cheaper to have one person living in a property than none. It wouldn't suprise me too greatly if there were caveats for pensioners.

[protocol-rain.livejournal.com]

Just a reminder that I have switched lj accounts and can be found at protocol_rain

Cheers,

ne scunthorpe

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

1) Yes, I remember this prediction, and honestly it sounds pretty plausible.

2) Speaking as a single person living alone, oh, bollocks.