johnny5thumbs

I totally agree, Rinoa ... with the comments at the foot of the article ripping the p!ss out of the article. As for the article itself - raging rampant rubbish. As for fiction of this sort, I prefer my 2 year ole daughter's fav. book, "The Bunney-Fluffs' Moving Day", when Mr & Mr. Bunney-Fluff who move across the river from a dangerous small apartment to a 4 bed det. thatched cottage with large gardens. No estate agent in sight, no mortgage, no HPI, in fact no purchase price. This is the stuff ! http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/FrameBas.../1330415076.jpg

What - China exports those Jewish Hanukah multi-candleabra things to North Korea too ?

I predict that each week's edition will become less and lesss seminal the further it moves away in time from the duck island revelations. Until the point when Guido Fawkes reveals that Gordon B. has been secretly editing The Daily Mash and not declaring the income to HMCR. (Or is it HMRC - I could never remember, until I once typed in HMCR and still ended up in the right place ... do try it some time if you're truly truly bored with living ... )

Can't say I disagree with you too much - 6% is quite possible. Although both IMF & other predict UK GDP increase of 3% in 2010, so their stress test is not so much a worst case scenario - more a slightly-worse-than-average-prediction position. The commercial part of the equation is an arrived-at scenario already, but the domestic portion may not necessarily arrive (IMO). Having said that, I'd be a happy man if another 20% WERE shaved off house prices. Now where is Hamish when you need him ... ?

Oh dear - I just discovered that an anagram for Caroline Flint is I finance troll ? Am I spending too much time on the wrong pages of HPC ?

Actually, MOP, the word began with an 'F', b ut here's a clue. It wasn't 'Flint'. As in 'Caroline'

Well ... it is a stress test, which is a wee bit more severe thn a predicted scenario. Having said that, commercial property share prices and underlying valuations (Land Sec, Br. Land etc.) have dropped much lower than 60% from peak, so you never know. But they they exist on a fuly leveraged knife edge - much more than owner occupier residential owners. Don't hold yer breath. Maybe ...

Wow - first time I've ever been censored. Gosh !

In what way? I don't remember seeing a Caroline Flint fanclub here on HPC. Granted, she might appeal to MILF fanciers, even though she's 48 (or was it 58?), but perhaps you could take the time to justify your assertion that mancghirl is "way out of step etc." Have you got the hots for Miss "Now-you-see-it-now-you-don't-oh-******-it's-on-you-tube-already" ? Well - have you?

Guido has joined forces with the Jury Team. Might be worth checking out properly. Don't necessarily get too carried with 'ragbag' impressions - everyone's gotta start somewhere ... http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/

WAITROSE ! Oh no ! Unortunately, as a struggling music retailer, I can't afford to shop at Waitrose. Do they sell duck houses now? If they do, I can't afford them.

Do tell, Aldi. Do they pay you to occupy them (temporarily) ?

A Labour landslide would be a crazy result for me.

Did they travel first class?

Green lady is spot on too - but she's got pretty short hair, so she's yours.

Hate to say it (as a previous Hannan critic), but he's spot on tonight. Flint is a ****ing disaster (as expected).

Only for 'flippers' amd retirees

Nice pic. What make of camera ?

<<<Despite savage pullbacks from their mid-decade highs the nation's biggest homebuilders are still overvalued. The S&P 500 is down 4% since the last housing boom began in January 1998. But over that time, Toll Brothers (TOL), Pulte Home (PHM) and D.R. Horton (DRI) are up 195%, 100%, and 97% respectively. The truth is, America's current inventory of homes will last at least a generation or more. These stocks are still not priced accordingly.>>> Taylor Wimpey et al too on this side of the pond. Hamish - your response wasn't even slightly thought out. It was just sheer trolling. Sometimes you almost approach lucidity. But not tonight, I'm afraid.

British expenses fiddles for British MP's. British Bank bailouts for British banking execs. British HPI for British home-owners Go on 'justice' - blame that on immigrants - correctly spelt or otherwise ...

+1. But as a nation, we're really crap at revolutions since we got VCR's. Whaddya suggest? (and please don't say a march through Luton)

If you can get a pic please asap. Let's name 'n shame 'em !

Aah - Devon may be caling you soon, Cat in the Hat. I lived for exactly 10 years in Finsbury Park, Crouch End & finally Finchley before the siren call of green grass and fresh air could no longer be resisted. Could never return now ! By the way, don't you go nicking my avatar !

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Sorry it's taken me a day to get back - full-time baby-minding this week Well Hamish, when you say "And a recent BBC poll seems to agree with me" followed by "Only 30% of people want price falls. Whereas 32% of people want prices to rise, and 34% of people want prices to stay the same", one might not unreasonably infer that you're trying to put the message that the vast majority, 66%, are happy to see prices at their current historical high levels or even higher. This is a fairly bullish attitude, if my understanding of the word 'bull' is correct. No doubt, you'll riposte by claiming that houses are now at some historic mean (bur certainly not median) low once again, when taken as a multiple of mean salaries which are apparently now past the £34k mark and still rising, recession notwithstanding. Is the national mean salary, in your honest opinion, really going to rise in the next 12 months ?