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.

Why what as she said Cyners?

Shouldn't that be Giddeon and I?

she was talking about when interest rates might go up

From what she said, it is unlikely that interest rates will rise soon.

So what. They dont have a housing bubble crisis like us. I hear the Jap housing market is warming up though.

Three recent articles suggesting US housing bubble set to burst

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0424-pinto-housing-prices-bubble-20140424-9-story.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26195174/economist-who-predicted-busted-housing-bubble-says-another

http://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-rewired/post/29669-heres-proof-the-housing-bubble-is-about-to-burst

8 January 14

Sun-seekers heading to Turkey this year could be caught out by a new visa system which requires holidaymakers to apply for a visa before travel.

The popular beach holiday destination has always issued Britons with a visa stamp in their passports on arrival for a £10 fee, but will change the process from April 10, so that visitors will have to apply online for an electronic visa before travel.

The e-visa will cost the same amount as before, £10, and will be emailed to travellers for them to print out at home after providing their name, date and place of birth, email address and passport details. They will then be required to present the document to immigration on arrival.

etc, etc.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2535872/Turkey-visa-changes-Britons-warned-apply-visa-ahead-holiday.html#ixzz3B97QQWcH
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If you think the UK housing market is still solid and want to take out a pretty big mortgage on the strength of it, Jamie Oliver is knocking out his pad.
(Includes some very nice pictures)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/articles/celebrity-homes/jamie%E2%80%99s-former-pukka-pad-is-on-the-market

Hays I can post five times that many links here in the UK perhaphs more.

What your forgeting is the London weighting.

When London goes, it takes the rest of the economy down with it.

Are you denying that?, because if you are your a fool.

There is something I don't understand with Dover and Calais : Why are there are more checks and searches on the way out than on the return for anybody leaving the UK first ???.....(Calais is awash with illegals)...

The London bubble will not burst for quite a time if at all. The average price for London property is skewed by the central London prices. These are often sold to foreigneners or bought and sold for investment. If you strip out the investment and central London high priced property then the average comes down to a more sensible level. London prices have been held down artificially for several years and are now returning to the long term trend. The BoE rules are slowing the market. The prospect of interest rates rising next summer will also slow the market.

Dover/Calais and other ferry routes have special arrangements. People are not generally aware that the UK has bordet control staff based in Calais. They check passengers along with the French staff. While the ferry is travelling to UK they do checks on passenger via online systems. Suspect people are then picked up on landing.

How come after years and years of cover-ups : all these famous celebs are being arrested ...some charged ..others not....it just shows that for decades a stinking rotten system of ours was in place...probably dozens knew about Savile but possibly nobody said anything for fear of retribution...

Thanks for that Haystack...

Anybody tried the Who-Loo ?...wonderful by the look of it ....bravo....

MaxK - 21 Aug 2014 20:06 - 45160 of 45202

I quite believe you c, but that's not saying it's right and fair.


The rates they are paying couriers is a disgrace (£0.70 - £0.80 a drop) is absurd. Well stop just winging about it get together and take some action against their employers, that might be a start.. the lazy Barstewards!

are you REALLY so naive Stan?

firstly, these guys are obliged to be self-employed so de facto they do have employers and thus inter alia lack any of the inherent protection given to an employee

secondly, many if not most of these drivers would have a lot of difficulty getting better employment elsewhere, as for the most part, they are not well-educated enough

45200 - not entirely fair

1) it is only high profile suspects that make headline stories

2) paedophilia (and incest for that matter) is far more widespread than generally acknowledged

3) for all sorts of reasons, the victims may be unwilling to step forward (ditto in rape cases)

4) the likes of the kray twins were pretty good at instilling fear too!

Up the workers! The problem is easy to fix. It just needs the revenue to say that the relationship between the companies and the couriers is one of employment. This is easy to prove as the couriers work or a particular courier all the time. It is more difficult if couriers work for several companies at the same time. Then it is just market forces regarding the courier price. The same was done for other trades such as freelance IT workers who get trapped by IR35 and some temp workers who get tax deducted at source.

the courier companies would no doubt claim that they act "as agents only" or somesuch
as this "problem" seems common to all courier companies of all sizes, i'm quite sure they have their arses well covered