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.

I reckon Fred has run out of lemons!

gosh, i remember bitter lemons with sherbet powder in the middle

This is actually the 'Talk to yourself thread'.....

There are two 'very similar to look at' homes for sale near me. They are priced for sale at identical prices and are also being sold by the same agent.

Hmmm?

One has had nothing done to it at all. The other has had around £60k-£70k spent on improvements. The builder who did lots of the internal work around 7 years ago, was recommended to the owners by me. Later the tradesman thanked me and told me that 'money was no object with the owners' and how it was one of the best jobs he had ever come across.

Anyhow, the better one of the two is theoretically worth consideration for buying for investment purposes, since it is in stunning condition and around £50k-£60k underpriced, IMHO.

However, it isn't! Since it would be 'a second home' for us, Stamp Duty would be chargeable at 8% of the asking price! Add in the likely buying and selling costs and the exercise just isn't really worthwhile. Only the government would benefit from VAT and Stamp Duty collection.

In my lifetime, I've seen things like 'a reasonable amount of inflation' be used to settle off mortgages and debt - the main debt I'm talking about, was usually incurred to try and make some money with some kind of a project - usually connected with 'housing'.

Things seemed to be 'worth doing'. Not now though.

As my wife and I now look at the massive drop in earned interest we have suffered on our cash savings during these last few years, we also look at what has happened to the £GBP lately following Carney's recent savaging of Base Rate. The £GBP has just recently suffered a collapse and so we aren't really wanting to go on a foreign holiday. Neither are we wanting to spend our money on high costing things.

Have Carney and these so called 'economic experts' got things right or have they got it wrong?

It's also gone very quiet on here. Volaitility has probably scared off the private investor. Nowadays, I just want to sit in the sun and read a book. I think I have become a changed man.

Hmmm? Probably Merkel, Osborne and Carney got it wrong. Farage got it right. Perhaps things will take some time to work through? Hmmm? And whilst I'm thinking about things, why did Cameron resign?

Ah well.

voting intention:
CON: 39% (+1)
LAB: 26% (-5)
UKIP: 11% (-2)
LDEM: 10% (+2)
GRN: 7% (+3)
(TNS, 05 - 08 Aug)
Chgs. vs GE, GB only

On who would make the best Prime Minister:
T. May: 52% (-)
J. Corbyn: 18% (-)
(via YouGov)

A lot of things contribute to the popularity of a political party, timing,
internal infighting etc..

When the next GE comes around, and taking as an example, Brexit and
there not been article50 invoked then a party like UKIP could come into
the public's eye and be popular with those who feel betrayed and that there
has been a stitch up.

At the moment everyones waiting to see what happens, but if May lets the
Brexiter's down then expect UKIP to rise in the polls, and both the Tory's
and Labour to lose out..

There is still close to 50% who want to remain and maybe quite a few more than 50% due to people not voting. The Libs are already campaigning to remain and or a second referendum. Labour will campaign to remain. There is a good chance that UKIP would get squeezed as the Conservatives would be for remain

Keep indyref 2 ‘fanatics’ in line, Mundell warns Sturgeon

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/keep-indyref-2-fanatics-in-line-mundell-warns-sturgeon-1-4199837
SCOTT MACNAB 22:56Wednesday 10 August 201607:57Thursday 11 August 2016

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/keep-indyref-2-fanatics-in-line-mundell-warns-sturgeon-1-4199837
Nicola Sturgeon is maximising uncertainty and damaging prosperity by “touting” a second independence referendum, Scottish Secretary David Mundell has said. Mr Mundell called on the First Minister to take a firm line with the “fanatics” in her party who are “obsessed” with another vote on leaving the UK in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. Nicola Sturgeon has said that a second referendum is “highly likely” after Scots voted for the UK to stay in the EU while the UK as a whole backed Brexit. Mr Mundell said yesterday: “There are indications that some people in the SNP just simply see this situation as an opportunity to further the cause of independence, regardless of the EU issue. “Nicola Sturgeon, instead of reducing uncertainty in Scotland, is maximising it by threatening another independence referendum. “That’s not the way to increase business confidence in Scotland. She needs to take the independence issue off the table. I know it’s very hard for her because she has a lot of very fanatical people who are obsessed with having another independence referendum. But after my meetings with business and a cross section of people across Scotland, there’s no mood for another independence referendum.” He insisted the situation is “already having an impact” on business. “There’s already additional uncertainty in Scotland because the prospect of a second independence referendum is being touted,” he said.

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/keep-indyref-2-fanatics-in-line-mundell-warns-sturgeon-1-4199837

grannyboy 73041

I have been saying that for a long time , if we get stitched up UKIP will be getting a lot of votes .
I don't think Haystack understands in his post , we voted OUT and a large amount of those voters in the North and down the East coast will not be happy if we don't get Brexit ,just about everybody i ask who voted to leave has said the same thing ,if we get Brexit light i shall vote UKIP.

Haystack has all but come out of the closet...he is, and always was, a remainer.

It's only a matter of time before he abandons his first love (dave) and goes full on for his nu love (T.May)

I do like May, but I voted leave.

This may surprise you. Cameron more popular than Blair by a long way.

http://order-order.com/2016/08/11/dave-popular-pm-since-maggie/

Look at the FTSE since Brexit , do they feel a bit silly ?

jimmy b(73047), and the ftse 250 has excelled too, which is a more representative,
and is now higher then before the referendum.

You are not allowed to say things like that granny.

Oooppss...I thought the 'remainer's' would still be fast asleep in bed...LOL!

The Corby v Smiffy debate went down a treat.

Smiffy trying for a re-run of the referendum, and Corby blowing that idea out of the water...the punters loved it.

And the FT has still talked Britain down desperate for a recession .

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