AgeingBabyBoomer

One might think that at least some of them could provide thier own ABB

Maybe the private sector needs to cut back on its private helath plans ABB

...none of the many links seem particularly directed toward either the parasitic or the pregnant. Guess they need to take responsibility for themselves Such is life ABB

To be pedantic, sun,wind and water cannot be rebwed, sugar beet can. What you mean is natural energy (add geothermal) The problem with agro renewables is that there ain't enough land to grow what we currently need. Fossil fuels are the amortisation of biorenewables over millions of years, which should alert us to the unsustainability of growing fuel in the amounts needed to meet current consumption. ABB

She is pregnant 'as planned'! Oh, so now she's in a bit of bother, the rest of us will have to wait to be paid, can't have cash flow problems interfering with the smooth running of this lady's life. Flog the Holborn restaurant, and move to a Kebab van on the Old Kent Road, lose the BTLs, and pay back what you owe! ABB

Losing a grand on apparently nothing is a bit rough, look upon it as spedning £1000 now to save yourself £6k per year for the forseeable future, it looks like a bargain. Admittedly, you could have figured it out for free, but be glad you only lost a grand ABB

Viva Chavez! ABB

This happened just before the top of the last bubble. By the time it came to putting legislation together, the crash had happened, and it got watered down to making them use less flowery language to describe propeerties. Of course they have an industry body and their own voluntary 'code of conduct', so who needs regulation :-/ ABB

1 - 10: The British public for borrowing the money and for buying into the bubble. And to think it was only 15 years since the last time they let themselves get suckered this way. ABB

The joke is the Chinese womans heirs inherit her fortune, the English woman's house reverts to the bank? Not that funny really ABB

Hmmm, They don't want to provide soutions, because like all politicians, they will want to print money and create a credit boom when they want to win reelection too. There is a large tranche of society that suffered under Thatcher that will never vote Tory, no matter how bad the alternatives. I am in that number ABB

Right on the money, HPI is simply a reflection of residential land prices. Which makes it even more amusing seeing those folks who imagine a lick of magnolia and a few packs of laminate flooring will add £20k to the value of their property. ABB

What amuses me when guys talk about abortion is they forget that the mechanics fo the process is pretty gruesome. Add to which psychlogical the effects on the aborting mother, most of whom are well aware of the moral aspects of what they are doing. The idea that it would be considered lightly as an alternative to contraception is laughable. ABB

Surely they meant: How many landlords must now be regretting the day they decided to open their wallets to recieve huge wads of council tax payers hard earned cash? (That's yours and mine). Tough luck - greedy feckers. ABB

Oh dear, Landlords getting ripped off - makes my heart bleed. I thought being a landlord was all about buying up all the affordable accomodation, and renting it back to those that can no longer afford to buy. They play golf alll day, then they cash up the equity for a nice fat pension, all paid for by the tenants or local council as appropriate. So there's no such thing as a free lunch after all - poor fellows ABB

I think its single most redeeming feature as a fiorm of money is that it cannot be fabricated. Debauchment is easily dtected too, hence its value cannot be eroded like paper monies through wanton printing or forgery. ABB

I don't think the imimigration argument for HPI really wrings out. Although the numbers are in dispute, I am prepared to accept that immigrant labour is depressing wages at the low end of the job market, and the more there are the greater this effect. However, the argument assumes that rampant HPI woudl be 'OK' if we also had rampant wage inflation - not so - see the 70's for an explanation... The people to blame for this are neither the immigrants, nor even government (though they complicitly turn a blind eye) - the real villains are the captain's of industry, who will gladly hire them at less than the minimum wage, and abuse their rights as employees. Those who have a problem with immigration should be writing to the CBI (that's Confederation of BRITISH Industry), and aask them to tell their members to stop hiring cheap immigrant labour. Of course, they and thier meida mouthpiece (TheDaily Mail) prefer to distract the general public from that by applying the principle of divide and conquer, appealing to base racist instincts to whip up a frenzy against people who have abandoned their homelands in search of a better life. Setting the poor against the poor, whilst they get richer. The immigrants are not the ones paying top whack for houses, and their effect on wages could hardly be described as inflationary either. HPI is being driven by cheap credit, and greedy 'investors'. ABB

Nice piece of spin, if you read it fast, the figures look like they stack up, but Youngish couple - increasinlgy rare if demographics are to be bielieved. Combined income 48K - maybe in London, outside, I think they might struggle to average 30k House 160k -like WHERE? -the Outer Hebrides maybe. Round my way that will struggle to get you a ex LA maisonette. Depsit 10k -possible Mortgage 150K - see above... More common: Single youngish person, income 24K, monthly take home around 1400 pcm Depost 10K (just fo rcompariosn), so Mortgage 875pcm 62.5% of take home... What's good about that? ABB

There are still quite a lot about - wave a magnet over a pile of coppers - those that don't stick are the good ones (bronze with high % copper). I found about a third of my coppers didn't stick ABB

Because they don't want your business, for some reason - invest elsewhere ABB

Maybe Bernanke's original statement was made before the Chinese raised their base rate, and now he has to back pedal. The ECB had a similar misunderstanding recently - maybe they know something we don't ABb

So remind me again, what qualifications and training do you need to set up as an Estate Agent? ABB

But this time it is different. Same old jigsaw, only this time we have the lid. ABB

I wouldn't mind so much , but it seems whatever political colour they are, once elected, they view it as a five year expense funded beaner to indulge their wildest sexual fantasies..... even John Major was at it - but boy what a fantasy. Hmm, I'm gonna run for MP ABB

10/10 Jeff, Yes, they just widened the tolerances on the specs, but equipment built after that date should work in both areas - your TV and alarm clock will work in France, though the clock may run a little fast, and the TV will be unable to decode the picture. But hey that's progress, and I'm tone deaf anyay ABB