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.

The joke from Osborne was good. He said that the guy who does the voices for Wallace and Gromit was retiring. He offered a likely candidate.

What made the joke even funnier was that Miliband tried to laugh it off and in the process he made a silly wide grin making him look even more like Wallace.

Miliband's grins look as false as Brown's

Cleggy stayed away from the budget cos he don't want to be seen with call me Dave.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

52072 - wonderful article! .... and if there had been no benefit to the buyers of relatively low priced houses, what sort of outcry then? ..... what a miserable old git that professor is

Some of the sellers of properties that are worth more but have been dropped down to the old '£250k SD ceiling' will now also be able to raise their asking price....

And then there's the 'new SD saving' that can now be spent on the asking price....

Interesting times in the market

Anyone would think there is an election in the offing.

Come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's going on, not Michael now. All the best characters getting voted off.

If it wasn't for buy to let landlords, where would people live? There would never be enough social housing. In the UK, we are obssessed with owning property. Across Europe, in France, Belgium, Germany there is a much greater proportion of people renting.

At sensible prices Haystack.

Check it out.

True. But part of the reason our rents are so high is because of our obsession with owning our own property and making a profit from it. It becomes a never ending process.

Go on Max, youve now got Hays's measure.

He doesnt like it up him.

Labour lead at 1

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 2nd December - Con 32%, Lab 33%, LD 7%, UKIP 16%;

Drop in economic confidence since March

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/12/03/drop-economic-confidence-since-march/

i haven't even bothered to glance at all the posts above, as the usual suspects will have trundled out their customary partisan crap

overall, the media and political and economic analysts have generally come down in favour of GO's speech and proposals, given the continuing economic problems prevailing ...... as an aside, i think this cheap oil may bring a lot of headaches in its wake with less money available to saudi and similar to invest

anyway, the FT looks worth buying and reading this morning, but i did chuckle at one of it's headlines that i get on-line .....

Labour is stuck in the political doghouse
It is possible to ridicule the Tories’ missed targets, and still favour them over the shabby alternative