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I didn't start with an insult I started with a fact which is something that is competley lacking in your arguments. But what the hell, I'll start with one here, you're an idiot. No the markets were not expecting Article 50 to be inacted on the day of the Brexit result - total tosh - provide some evidence? You get part of your argument right about why share prices have risen but it's written in such a muddled way I don't really think you have any real grasp of what you are trying to express. Stop reading The Guardian and start trying to think outside your brain-washed box and you might actually get somewhere.

Where is the stock market now? Lower or higher than pre-brexit? Yes a lower £ is something we will have to bear over the short-term, for exports and tourism it's been a boost, but as it becomes clear that it's not all doom and gloom I would expect to see the £ recover (as we've seen in recent weeks). The BOE releasing new money in the form of QE would had no signifigant impact in the short term - there are many that have criticised the move as being not necessary and I agree with them. And why do you think these people are on low wages? Not the brightest spark in the box are you MrMonkey.

No, we need to LEAVE the single market.

MrMonkey: can you provide evidence for your doom gloom predictions? You sound just like the Osbourne and Carney who were predicting an immediate recession if we voted to leave - it never materialized. We were told that business would not invest in the UK, yet we've seen the complete opposite (Google, Facebook, Nissan). You miss the whole point about leaving the EU, it's a declining market, our future is with the rest of the world. And I toally disagree with your assumptions that the poor will be the worst hit - IMO the opposite is true. But as I say perhaps you can provide some evidence for your predictions? Weasel words indeed.

MrMonkey talks a load of dribble. The only reason for these legal challenges is to try and delay and if possible thwart Brexit and nothing to do with wanting to uphold due process. Anyway we don't need to inact Article 50 to leave, we just leave. http://moneyweek.com/dont-trigger-article-50-just-leave/ A hard Brexit should absolutely be our position - otherwise what is the point?

Nick Clegg should STFU

What is sliding HPI?

UK houses now cost six times annual wages, says Nationwide http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37844832

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37696978 It is the most common residential road name in Great Britain, so what can Station Road tell us about housing today? There are more than 2,000 Station Roads - how have the people living in them been affected by the housing crisis? Here, a young couple in Islington, north London, look at whether they could afford to buy a one-bedroom flat on any Station Road in London. Video by Daniel Gordon, Harry Low and Robert Spencer. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter Do you live on Station Road? Are you affected by the housing crisis? Please contact us using the form below: Your contact details

My brother is an Estate Agent and he is a tw*t.

What have I been saying for months?

Carney must be sacked NOW.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37518089 UK spending grew strongly post-Brexit vote, ONS data shows The UK services sector grew 0.4% in July, much more strongly than expected in the wake of June's vote to leave the European Union. It shows consumers carried on spending as normal after June's Brexit vote. Other figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show economic growth accelerated faster than thought in the run-up to the referendum. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 0.7% in the three months to the end of June, up from the 0.6% first estimated. The second-quarter figures were well up from the 0.4% growth of the previous quarter. ONS statistician Darren Morgan said: "Together this fresh data tends to support the view that there has been no sign of an immediate shock to the economy, although the full picture will continue to emerge." The figures will help the Bank of England assess policy when it next meets in November. It has already cut interest rates since the UK voted to leave the EU and has hinted there could be another one if needed. why were interests rates cut? why is Carney still in his job?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37452356 UK 'did not vote for hard Brexit', George Osborne warnsBritain did not vote for 'hard Brexit' in the EU referendum and will have to compromise in exit talks, former Chancellor George Osborne has warned. He said Leave campaigners were naive for thinking the UK could secure everything it wanted in negotiations. In a speech in Chicago, he also warned against "the dangerous purity of splendid isolation" over co-operation. He campaigned for the Remain side and was criticised for warning of a £30bn "black hole" if the UK voted to leave. Mr Osborne's speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs is one of few public interventions he has made, since being sacked as chancellor when Theresa May became prime minister. What has actually happened since Brexit? In it, he described the vote to leave Europe on 23 June as "one of the low points" of his time in government and warned Conservative colleagues now looking to negotiate Brexit that they faced "the most important set of decisions Britain has faced since the Second World War". He is now a backbencher, but urged Prime Minister Theresa May to pursue "the closest possible economic and security relationship with our European partners while no longer being formal members of the EU". Formal negotiations over the UK's withdrawal from the European Union cannot begin until the UK triggers Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which Mrs May has said will not be before the end of the year. "I can't see us consenting to the current arrangements around free movement of people that clearly caused such concern in the referendum," Mr Osborne said. "Equally, I find some of the take-or-leave it bravado we hear from those who assume Europe has no option but to give us everything we want more than a little naive. "We need to be realistic that this is a two-way relationship: that Britain cannot expect to maintain all the benefits that came from EU membership without incurring any of the costs or the obligations. There will have to be compromise." Extreme governmentHe warned against the "false logic" of exiting all forms of European co-operation and against valuing "the dangerous purity of splendid isolation over the practical necessity of co-operation in the real world". "Brexit won a majority. Hard Brexit did not," he said. "The mainstream majority in our country do not want to be governed from the extremes." He said the government could not ignore the referendum result but said the EU would not be in a position for serious negotiations until autumn 2017 because of French and German elections. The UK must not turn its back on Europe, he said, as huge issues such as terrorism, mass migration, disease and climate change could not be tackled alone. In London on Friday, Martin Schulz, the President of the European Parliament, concluded a two-day visit including talks with Prime Minister Theresa May. He said the vote for Brexit was a "lose-lose" result for the UK and the EU. "A G7 country, the second economy of the European single market, a permanent veto of the security council leaving the European Union is a disaster for us and for the United Kingdom," he said. "Honestly, I leave London with a feeling that the Government is undecided about how and when they should trigger Article 50... also with the feeling that they perceive, more and more, the European side - the 27 institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg - can't wait too long." Why is Osbourne being given attention when he has zero credibility? Must be the BBC.

He's never raised rates.

OP can't even spell his name correctly. I'll help… L O B O T O M Y

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(((Duncan Weldon))) Verified account ‏@DuncanWeldon Another big risk is a larger house price fall which (for all the fact that prices are too high anyway) can have v negative consequences. Chris Jennings ‏@_ChrisJennings 3h3 hours ago @duncanweldon There is no solution to the "housing crisis" that doesn't entail a large fall in prices. Bring it on, I say. 1 retweet 1 like (((Duncan Weldon))) ‏@DuncanWeldon 3h3 hours ago @_ChrisJennings flat (in nominal terms) prices whilst wages & inflation rise. Real terms fall we need without negative equity & bad loans. 0 retweets 0 likes Chris Jennings ‏@_ChrisJennings 46m46 minutes ago @duncanweldon Never really understood why over-indebted home owners are endlessly protected to the detriment of others.Why are they special? 0 retweets 0 likes (((Duncan Weldon))) ‏@DuncanWeldon 43m43 minutes ago @_ChrisJennings because property crashes in the UK become banking problems which become recessions. 0 retweets 0 likes (((Duncan Weldon))) ‏@DuncanWeldon 43m43 minutes ago @_ChrisJennings although - yes, lower house prices in real terms would be a very good thing. View other replies

Thats right they just make things up. I'm self-employed - have been for over 20 years. I am not VAT regsitered and my tax return is done through my accountant. Checks are genrally random, although I am sure they have markers for unusual activity.

Carney really has to go - he zero credibility.

you have to work to get tax credits, either in a PAYE full or part time job or as self employed, both show proof of earnings. PAYE = payslip. self employed = tax return.

ITV News just featured this. The Estate Agent’s solution to the problem: buyers need to pay more, they need to outbid the "buy to let investor"!! Where do they find these fooking morons?

BBC coverage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36943134

Carney got to go.