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Public sector contracts have become euphemisms for doubling costs and longing out the work. And the reason is very simple. The english government expects contractors to work without bonuses for getting the work done on time. So they long it out which doubles the costs. The civil service doesn't know how to build anything. They just penny pinch and think they're doing a great job, without realising that time is money.

This is an economic model, not a demographic one. The end game is the economic model changes to a declining population mode. I don't think many countries have increasing birth rates these days, growth is just better health care increasing the population by keeping people alive.

No one else would pay them. Who would see any value in a man who said no more boom and bust and then gave a bust? And who would pay money to someone who sold the commonwealth down the river ?

You seem to be arguing for more government borrowing. I don't think there's going to be much, no matter which party is elected.

Once you realise that the tories have been letting in 1m a year, and that neither party are going to stop doing it, you realise that the real trajectory is... The return of teeming slums, complete with slumlords, and achieving growth that way. We can all see the tales they tell us to the contrary are just impossible lies, so that only leaves us with the above. The only thing we don't know is what colourful lies they will tell us to get us to swallow it. If we don't believe the first lot, they'll come up with some more. And none of them are intended to change the real trajectory. They're only intended to get us to swallow it. The only thing they're really worried about is losing control. (And they've got the police, newly ivented laws, and if necessary the army to deal with that. ) So they'll just smile politely, tell you a few more lies you want to hear, and know you can't do anything to stop them.

We're all stuck on previous downturns, and guess a number based on that. But this downturn is off the scale, historic, the greater depression. The main uncertainty is inflation. If we get roaring inflation, there could be only modest falls in nominal terms.

If it takes 4 months to get ready, and prices are falling, it's inevitable that it's marked down somewhere along the way. The only alternative is for 10 possible buyers to have 9 of them waste money on surveys etc and then 9 not get it. So I doubt things will change. I suppose the seller could pay for surveys etc to cut the time down to a month, but they won't want to do that. They'd have to be forced. (And then could you trust the survey?)

Cutting interest rates makes inflation go up further and faster. The BOE is doing the opposite.

Isn't she one of those inherited wealth types, talking down to the working man? She looks Norman.

The old always disapprove of the young. But strangely, they forget how they viewed their own parents when they were young. If you jog their memories, turns out their parents had values which wouldn't work at all a generation later, and they wrote them off for it. . And they were old and tired, which the young aren't. So let the young have their fun. They'll be old and tired themselves soon enough. And out of date with what works and what doesn't.

Stewy isn't all bad. People who are going to food banks are willing to make a full time job of getting something for nothing. The country is full of them. This is definitely the take off of inflation- look at oil climbing and everything costs oil, even bananas need to be transported. So we've inflation entrenched and rising. A government that is living beyond its means, and increasing the debt to paper over it, and a population looking at 30% increases in their food budget and mortgages. So the government keeps printing money, inflation goes to 20%, and lo and behold, house prices at these levels seem quite affordable in a few years time. Isn't that the stewy argument?

It changes with age. I wouldn't underestimate the future local economy either, that's probably the biggest factor. Eg manufacturing towns or pit towns in late 1970's? They sank to zero when the economy disappeared. And vica versa. Off M25 areas boomed with 80's big bang banking and globalisation London. So.. what's going to boom over next 30 years? Manufacturing towns I'd guess, near a big port. Possibly.

Trading standards notices illegal activity after it's being going on for 20 years. And then says it can't stop it. ?

That's probably because the seller has set the reserve price at top prices. That has stopped the auctioneer putting a lowish guide price on to attract bidders. Seller wants a quick sale with no risk. They'll find that it's not a quick sale if it doesnt sell at all. (Then it's relisted with a conventional estate agent for peak prices. Because it has to be the formats fault, not the price)