Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

fred - a result of the policy of this far Right winged ideologues governing for their own

total and utter rubbish, but then nearly all your posts are full of political soapbox claptrap

The last time I bought a flat it was 125 year lease.

The help to buy may be a good thing. It is too early to tell. The system is to help with the deposit. It effectively is an insurance policy on the deposit underwritten by the government to encourage banks, building societies to give a loan.

Prices are bound to rise a bit as a result of the market moving again. Prices have been artificially kept low recently. Prices would have jumped whenever the market started moving again.

But should the gov really be helping £100k pa plus punters to get on the property wagon?

I just watched the remembrance ceremony at the cenotaph. It reminded me of when Michael Ffot turned up there in a green donkey jacket. He managed 24% popularity, which was the lowest since polling began. It would be a long wait until Brown polled a lower figure. Socialism doesn't seem too popular in the UK.

MK - i don't know, but i don't the "rules" anyway, but i take your point ......

that said, if £100k only merits a mortgage of £3/400,000 then you won't get a lot in london unless you go as far out as say walthamstow, or perhaps in places likes brixton or harlesden

on the other hand, if you live in truro or even newcastle, then you should find something very nice for the money - though of course, salaries in those areas are generally far lower than in london

Congress threatens fresh Iran sanctions
Kerry on defensive after criticism, while Iran blames France for blocking a historic agreement and Israel denounces US strategy on Tehran



about par for the course from all 3 mentioned above!

Israel only as one strategy that's to bomb Iran , Has John Lennon said give peace a chance.

it's a shame that no american president in decades has had the balls to put israel in its place when warranted

Which place would that be?

back in its box (as warranted)!

Is that because of the Jewish vote and their money ?

no it is because they are a great country

it's certainly to do with the vote, but it really is a totally lily-livered approach to a most important international political issue (and others in the past)

Another Calais politician has launched a scathing attack on Britain for its policy on immigration which he claims attracts hundreds of illegal immigrants to the French Channel coast as they attempt to sneak into Britain.


Deputy mayor Philippe Mignonet, the man tasked with solving the problem in Calais, called UK policy on migrants 'grotesque and hypocritical'.

'Britain says we don't want immigrants but does nothing to prevent black economy employment yet two million people work on the black in Britain,' he said.





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so what do the froggies do about re-exporting them whence they came? ..... not a lot

It's not about the Jewish vote more like Zionist pressure, thought that you would have known that Jeremy after the Thread we have on the subject.?

it's an interesting question as to when a jew who is interested in israel and its welfare and continuation, becomes a zionist - which is too often a pejorative term from a goy who supports hezbollah and the like :-)

just for the record, i am proud of my jewish ancestry, though i am embarrassingly ignorant of jewish history and custom, and even my grandparents' family history - records of which have long been destroyed in poland by one bunch of thugs or another

for all that, i absolutely will not support jewish charities, nor those for african countries, though for totally different reasons

Manuel,

It would be more important to know whether your ancestry is proud of you. But it is good to know you had grand parents.

Have to change my opinion of you.

8-)

Chatting with friends over the weekend with 230 years of history between us, I was reminded of many of the misdemeanours I committed 50-60 year ago. I am glad my near ancestors didn't know of them, at the time.

heaven forbid that you should change your opinion of me, lest perchance it should be for the better