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.

Economic success, or the greater fool theory in action?




First-time buyers struggle as London property prices soar

First and second-time buyers are being repeatedly outbid as investors snap up properties in the capital for well above asking prices



By Nicole Blackmore

7:38AM GMT 17 Feb 2014





Only in “lunatic London” could someone with a budget of £500,000 be outbid on a succession of properties for which rival buyers were prepared to pay tens of thousands of pounds above the asking prices.


Clare Duffy, above, was unable to buy even an ex-council house in Peckham, a neighbourhood made famous by the Eighties sitcom Only Fools and Horses.


The housing market in London is at “fever pitch”, according to some commentators, who fear that possible overheating in the capital could spill into other regions, resulting in an end to Help to Buy and other schemes that aim to boost lending and home ownership.


House price growth is only just being registered in some parts of Britain while London recorded double-digit price rises last year, with prices apparently continuing to rocket in 2014.


This week Adair Turner, the former head of the financial watchdog, added his voice to those calling for the Help to Buy scheme to be reined in, saying it was a “step too far”. Help to Buy is a government-backed scheme aimed at encouraging banks to lend to those with small deposits.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/houseprices/10639072/First-time-buyers-struggle-as-London-property-prices-soar.html

You cannot blame politicians for the flooding that has occurred !....it is extreme....the problem is that it will only get worse...I'm convinced that the artic/polar/greenland ice/caps are starting to melt....it will mean crazy as it is : parts of the globe getting colder ..other parts hotter, drier, wetter....it's nuts...but there is probably no stopping this even if there was zero pollution from now on....

RF.

But Haze and Manuel think Cameron is a god as they are his disciples. He is omnipotent and surely he should be able to turn a few buckets of the water back.

I am not sure whether global warming is or is not the part of our climate problems, but if I had to I would come down on the side of the majority of "climate" scientist who think we are adding to the problems.

However, I do believe that some of the flooding problems and consequences could were and foreseen and could have been prepared for, and sensible precautions and prevention could have prevented the scale and costs of recovering from the present disaster many are suffering.

That is down to action of central government in providing organisation and overall planning and control of the necessary work for infrastructure, as well as raising the taxes to pay for such.

Along with previous governments this government has failed it responsibilities.

Especially, by not doing the work which it was told was necessary.

Is that as opposed to Miliband and Balls who are both impotent.

Haze,

Those must be the gods you are genuflecting to.

Haze or Manuel.

If you claimed the following:

"xxxx claimed for 2012/13 a total of £170,234 in expenses, ranking him the 130th highest out of 650 MPs.[10] He explained in his local newspaper --------- that the "vast bulk" of his expenses was on staffing costs.[11]

In November 2013 "apologised unreservedly" after ---------- reported that he claimed £5,822 expenses for electricity to heat his horse riding school stables and a yard manager's mobile home.[12] ------- said the mistake arose because he received a single bill covering both a meter in the stables and one in his house. He would repay the money though the actual overcharge was £4,000.[13] An article in The Independent also drew attention to the number of legitimate but "trivial" items on --------- expenses.[14]


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But at the same time critical of somebody at the age of 61 years of age who appears to employed all his work in a manual work and made redundant having "benefits" reduced because he can't find a job.

The way in which the Welfare and NHS systems are being changed stink.
And the ones who are implementing the policies also stink.


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Haze or Manuel.

If you claimed the following:

"xxxx claimed for 2012/13 a total of £170,234 in expenses, ranking him the 130th highest out of 650 MPs.[10] He explained in his local newspaper --------- that the "vast bulk" of his expenses was on staffing costs.[11]

In November 2013 "apologised unreservedly" after ---------- reported that he claimed £5,822 expenses for electricity to heat his horse riding school stables and a yard manager's mobile home.[12] ------- said the mistake arose because he received a single bill covering both a meter in the stables and one in his house. He would repay the money though the actual overcharge was £4,000.[13] An article in The Independent also drew attention to the number of legitimate but "trivial" items on --------- expenses.[14]


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But at the same time critical of somebody at the age of 61 years of age who appears to employed all his work in a manual work and made redundant having "benefits" reduced because he can't find a job.

The way in which the Welfare and NHS systems are being changed stink.
And the ones who are implementing the policies also stink.


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Got your nose too near you arse again Fred!

Wonder where Mr 5% is this morning.

Probably getting shafted on a stock where he hasnt done HIS research.

Labour stretching their lead......... poll just out. People beginning to catch onto the benefits swindle. 'Thinking it could be me next'. All those hundreds of thousands of people the government are saying are fit for work but not including them in the unemployment figures. SCANDLE.

Might aswel say every goal scored by a black English footballer at this years World Cup doesnt count. (Same kind of thinking and no disrespect to any black person from me)

electionista ‏@electionista 2h
UK - YouGov/Sun poll:

CON 33%
LAB 40%
LDEM 9%
UKIP 11%

THis is an old one, but symbolic of Captain Wavy Davy.

sticky - labour's poll lead has consistently been 6-7% for months, with the odd anomaly every now and again ..... as i have said before, my major concern is that the public will be so apathetic and disillusioned with all parties, that the t/o will only be ~50%, thus allowing the fringe loonies to have far more influence and traction than is good for any of us of whatever sensible hue

NO comment Cynic.

Ive placed you on the lower level of COMMUNICATION SANCTIONS after your assholic showing yesterday.

Hays is on the top level as the ignoramous surpassed even his lowest low yesterday.

I feel sorry for his family.

Official warning...... Cynic SANCTION LEVEL 3

Hays SANCTION LEVEL 1

This information may or may not be included on your employment records held by the DSS.

may i claim disability benefits or similar? :-)

You dishing out asbo's as well gf?

No Cynic but if you request I will point you in the right direction to a FOODBANK. But I must make you aware you and your family will have to live of a ZOOPLA pay day loan the max being £56 per week and you must redeem this at an outlet of ALDI.

You do not have any appeal rights having breached your posting conditions chiefly pointing out you consider yourself to be MR 5%.

I must also add your pit bull terrier as no right to food although you may make a dogs dinner of him.

Please be assured we take your indiscretions very seriously and may upgrade your SANCTION to LEVEL 2 if you do not comply with our terms and conditions.

Max the sub department known as NAZI DSS are undertaking a costing exercise so as to see wether the standard ASBO maybe added to SANCTION LEVEL 1, the two merged together and to be known as ASSANC.

You can be assured that no expense will be spared, money is no object, ASSANC will certainly leave the top hardended shirkers with a sinking feeling which we see as an ongoing deterrent especialy during the monsoon season every winter.