dances with sheeple

Yes, but his wealth will make him a target of anger as people see their mortgage and other bills rocket while he tools about in his Bentley, the British are like this, it is the Tall Poppy Syndrome or whatever you call it, people would tolerate anything when their property was making them lots of money, now they are losing this guy will be the target of all that weird debt serf emotion that people carry around with them.

I would be in that camp but can`t bring myself to vote for Labour, they are laughable, totally out of their depth TBH.

I stopped borrowing money from them many years ago, if everyone, or even a significant number of people did this large numbers of bankers are out of business.

No, they paid attention when men came back from WW1 and 2 and demanded better housing etc. and it wasn`t a sham when workers rights, welfare state, NHS etc. were brought into being, was it a sham during Brexit or Scottish Independence? Both those things look to me like the voting public derailing a favoured agenda of elites.

Yes the VI`s have a lot of control now but the public are not going to take the gender/cancel/woke agenda much longer, that era is over, and three of the VI`s favoured Ponzi schemes are in trouble - property, CRE and education - fun times - Monster raving loony party anyone?

I originally wrote Cut from the same cloth now, but edited it so I didn`t have "now" twice! Obviously they were different up until probably Bliar took over.

Yep, until a viable third party turns up there is little point in voting now, unless you have strong preference for a local candidate for local reasons IMO.

Neither did I, that is why I put this in my post - "and I`m sure an engineer can tell us if it is possible ". making the chances of a whole bridge collapse less likely and limiting damage to around the point of impact could be a design choice rather than a massively increased cost?

They are both cut from the same cloth, the bond market is in charge now.

Yep, and kick started the property bubble at the same time (some will still want to blame Thatcher though) hopefully Labour win and have to own a big property crash.

No, bankers set up the deal they didn`t force people to participate (unless you subscribe to the idea that renting is so terrible that people were "forced" into mortgage debt) you can`t run a debt scam without debt diddies willing to take part, the public are more to blame than the bankers IMO, the public can shut down the bankers overnight if they wanted to.

Interesting.

Did he record there?

One simple way to "strengthen" it would have been barriers to prevent collision, and I`m sure an engineer can tell us if it is possible to install "breaks" so that one portion could collapse without the rest also collapsing, a bridge with appropriate barriers is essentially collision proof because the ship would collide with the barrier not the bridge, aircraft are much more crash proof than they used to be and you can make most things in a house fire-proof and install good smoke alarms as an extra safeguard.

I think more than 4 for houses, it is all about interest rates and the bottom rung unless you are looking at markets with very unique properties where people with money/equity will overpay for a specific house/area/view.

What was the connection?

Yep, and because of the long wait and the desire to see the property bubble collapse on here people are not really processing how important that actually is IMO, it is psychologically massive for the borrowing masses, many just don`t know WTF is going on and are waiting for rates to go back to 1% or lower.

Post it on MN, they will just come back with "Not as good an area" blah blah

I think the U.S said that in the 90`s then got caught out, the U.K said it in the early 90`s and got very badly caught out, never say never........many people on forums like MSE/Mumsnet etc. said we would never get over 5% base rate, they are VERY quiet now, MSE property pages are tumbleweed nowadays, now that all the Trolls have packed up and left.

No idea what you are on about.

"Looking" fragile and actually being fragile are two different things, I don`t believe for a minute that they thought a road bridge was actually really "fragile".

As young people lose retail, pub/club etc. jobs many will be forced back to parents, this is massive for BTL, new people won`t come to the country if they see job losses mounting either, this property bubble is going to cause carnage in the real economy as it unwinds.

"Fears Grow"....LOL.

The people at the higher levels in banking, trading etc. won`t enjoy the same level of income or status when it all falls apart, hence they are driving the constant narrative that rate cuts will bail everyone out, they need the sheeple to keep paying and taking debt. Average Joe will bumble along as usual after it all pops, with a little bit of status deflation and a lot more debt and maybe a mental health crisis or two thrown in, but the world won`t end because dummies stop borrowing decades of debt for bricks and a roof. Future generations will just laugh at this nonsense TBH, they will probably be facing the planet deciding to wipe out large numbers of humans anyway, luring some mug with a "makeover" and an air-freshener won`t be high on their priority list.

They were talking about the FED hiking more, but the BOE would have to be careful not to fall too far out of step. I can see higher rates in the UK and elsewhere if the ME situation escalates.