Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

London house prices dropping , that would be a good thing ,i wish house prices would fall by 50% all over ,so that average young folk could buy one and stop these ridiculous rent prices .

Fred really is a champagne socialist .

If house prices fell by that much the speculators would buy them up for rent and push prices back up. It's the market.

I thought they would buy them up and export them.

Cap rents (as they should be) that would put an end to speculators .

Three cheers !!!!

UK to get traditional navy blue passports back after Brexit in bid to 'restore our national identity'

Navy blue passports will be issued once more after Britain leaves the EU in 2019, the Home Office has confirmed.

Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis described the return to the traditional blue passport as a “unique opportunity to restore our national identity”.

The burgundy shade, which was introduced in 1988 under EU requirements, will be gradually phased out from October 2019 onwards.

Demands for a return to the blue passport were a major part of the Leave campaign ahead of the EU referendum in June 2016.

Mr Lewis said: "One of the most iconic things about being British is having a British passport.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/22/british-passports-will-return-iconic-blue-cover-brexit-confirmed/

If you want to curb property speculation, the government would probably need to tear up the 1988 Housing Act, and completely ditch Assured Shorthold Tenancies.

Who was in power in 1988, and allowed local authorities to dispose of their social housing stock without reinvestment in new stock, because that's what fuelled the btl boom throughout the nineties and noughties?

It seems to me to be quite a statement with the Passport change , a knock back to remoaners i would think , you just don't make that sort of thing up do you . British yes .

Oh look it's one of those EU criminals with an EU passport Mr O'Farrell that are allowed to roam Europe freely , do we still have to let him in or can we now tell him to feck off home where he came from ?

The UK already has the right to refuse entry to any EU national who poses a security risk, Dil. Whether they choose to exercise that right, or not, is something you need to take up with the Home Office.

I'm not sure that either leaving the EU or changing the colour of a UK passport will affect the flow of EU criminals into and out of the UK.

"€uropean Onion" at the top of the old passports is gone :-)

Hilary,

Stop being sensible.

You will worry Dil and cronies.

jimmy - capping rents is a short term fix that merely creates ever larger problems of various kinds into the future ....... the portuguese have experience of exactly this

Produce "social" housing at the same time!

For once I can't argue with that Fred

worth looking at what happened in portugal, lisbon being the easiest and clearest example
the theory sounds or sounded great, but the actuality was far from that

Bit like Socialism eh cyners?

no extended comment required
however, as a simple example, what do you think happens to properties if the landlord cannot make a worthwhile return on capital, and the knock-on effects?

Here is an article to bolster the little englanders.

"The Observer view on enfeebled Britain’s place in the world"

Though, it is A bit long for their concentration.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/24/the-observer-view-on-britains-place-in-world


Hey-ho Britania.