Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

Dumbo,

You can sign up here : https://www.peoples-vote.uk/

Fred, If you were a young person waiting to get on the housing ladder you would be delighted to see the prices falling I expect, so a silver lining for some I assume.

The housing market outside of London has been driven to some extent by the buy to let markert. due to such low returns on cash, many have invested in property, getting those than cannot get a mortgage to buy their property for them. To controll the spiral in home prices, the laws should give tenants a right to buy, which may be a solution to prevent the rich using housing the poor as a way to get richer. Let the rich invest in commercial enterprises and property by all means but not trade on the misery of the poor.

So Brexit may well help lower the entry level for those wishing to buy rather than rent.

Hilary,

By the way, it is the Year of the Pig.

Should be on the menu.

Boo hoo we lost we want another vote ... tough shit your not having one so get over it.

Happy days :-)

CT.

A relationship to question is that of the earning power of the young related to the price of housing.

With reducing economic growth and probable inflation of sustenance items, the available % of income for house purchase may be reduced.

In a growing economy, increasing house building would probably restrain a too rapid increase in house prices and also reduce rents.

But, again I am guessing.

Snowed in here , at least I won't have to drive past that bloody road sign today :-)

Eight weeks to go Fred , I'm starting to get excited.

I blame the bad weather on Brexit. Our resident snowflakes will be be demanding a referendum on the weather next.

Watch out there are snowflakes about.

Fred,

I didn't know it was the year of the pig. Mais tout est bon dans le cochon!

Dilbert,

We've got 85cm of snow here, and another 20cm forecast today. The roads are cleared, everyone's gone to work, and you can see the road signs.

When you decide to stay in the EU, you'll be able to ask the europeans for some tips on how they survive the winters.

Funny you should say that Hilary I had a chin wag with a fella from Poland last night at a music event and he said the same, he just can't understand why virtually everything grinds to a halt over here when we get only relatively low levels of snow.

Dil, Do you like fishing? serious question.

He wouldn't even make good bait!

Hils , only the side roads are bad and they are passable with care. We laugh here when Cardiff or London see a snowflake and it becomes the main item on the news and everything grinds to a halt.

Was never really into it Stan , did a bit in the Docks at Barry when I was a kid and sometimes went out on one of the pilot boats that my mates father was captain of. I always found it boring.

Fred , you do though :-)

Same here, I only ask because apparently you've got a giant shark from the Canary Islands basking off the Welsh coast...no seriously.

Flick through our quiz to question 5 and there is a picture of it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47026742

Think you'd need a crane with a hook on it the line catch that monster -):

We had a legendary conger eel in the docks called Percy that if you listened to some was almost as big as the Loch Ness monster.

It was as real as the Loch Ness monster too.

There are plenty fishermens story`s on these threads, mostly nothing to do the slippery eels that ply their trade. Much like the doom and gloom bridage when in comes to leaving the EU.

With the downturn in trade that China is suffering, there must be plenty of ships available and at bargain transport rates I suspect. The will soon be heading from New Zealand etc. fully loaded with not only their wines (replacing the EU wines) but with products they used to supply before the UK joined the EU.

We will be able to go back to making herbal wines and ginger beer.

Marrow wine was good!