TwoWolves

IR35 is going to ruin that route. That was planned before all this, makes me wonder if this wasn't all intended.

No, still waiting. No refund. No emails. Calls fobbed off. Even the booking online which once was marked with "pending refund" now says "case closed".

The WHO are corrupt. It has been well established that they have been disseminating poor advice in order to compromise the response of selected countries.

Yes. Waiting for them to get back to us on the complaint. I'm not holding my breath though, even they are not prepared for everyone to be claiming.

We are looking to lose about £4,000 in air fares as they each will only offer vouchers with short redemption periods to places where the hotels are likely to either go bust or become undesirable/unaffordable within the redemption period. Hope the bastards go bust.

We are one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Also with a very high proportion of people who are physiologically not suitable for life in such a northern, wet and grey Island but worst of all an utterly incompetent Civil Service who have a natural dislike of the incumbent government and secretly hope a good crisis will usher in the government they would prefer. The way was demonstrated by the Vietnamese and a few others but our government worships large organisation such as the WHO and Globalization; so our borders remained open and they took advice from liars.

Yup. Budget set for massive tax increases as if the economy is booming. This government is run by the stupid. Need to cut, cut, cut - stimulate demand side.

Current employment problems have little to do with automation or even changes in the automobile industry. Debt exhaustion and asset price inflation have tapped-out the consumer. This is the consequence of the 2008 bailouts, the last gasp of globalization before it collapses.

I disagree with all of it. Everything is fine if you take state figures at face value but it's not hard to show that they are a sham. A majority of Chinese banks are insolvent and close to collapse. Large portions of exports are exported at a loss in order to keep factories open. I'm not going to spend hours of my time providing the figures, there are a lot of seasoned China analysts on twitter and the web who publish these figures - even Bloomberg has turned China bear.

This is where the guy burns his credibility. China is in the worst position of any country in the world. We are on the brink of an emerging economy financial crisis.

I'm in the same boat except I have a young family in rental. Didn't vote for Blair though as I could see through his lies. It has been strange spending my life with the Boomers blocking the doors all the time. They got steady jobs, cheap houses, senior management and fat pensions - I still count my blessings but the government needs to stop feathering the Boomer nest.

Twenty years of massive HPI that only paused for thought during the worst financial crisis in history in spite of incomes flat-lining the whole period. I know the US is tanking but we have an excruciating shortage of homes thanks to living on a small island and huge immigration. I've been expecting a crash for ten years but I can't see it now. I think the government would sooner nuke their own populace than let house prices fall.

My current landlord would be making a substantial loss if he has a mortgage on this house, I don't think he has though so he's still making more than the money in the bank would. Rates are the key to it all.

They have however painted themselves into a corner, prices can go up no more without allowing greater income-multiple mortgages than now and lowering real rates.

2,350 -> 2,000