Pieman Pieface

I don't really understand this post. What does this newly restructured economy look like? Giving more power to ordinary workers in what way? Are we talking about trade unions, in which case that has nothing to do with the EU, but Thatcher. What percentage of the economy do you think goes on unemployment benefits or to migrants?

So no chance that houses will return to 'reasonable' prices? Are our perceptions of what houses are worth now completely skewed permanently? I refuse to believe that I need a million quid to afford a house for my family, or that the same house would have cost 300k less a few years ago. But seemingly this is the new normal

To be fair I'm guessing these celebs were all given bad advice and chose to go along with whatever their money managers suggested. Most are too stupid to think about it themselves. Working in contracting I've been recommended a number of dodgy sounded tax set ups to save money, but I'm too cautious to do something like that. Good job too because gov tend to find loopholes and clamp down retrospectively every time. if something is too good to be true it's because it is

I'm a contractor and so I'm looking at job adverts all the time. Very rarely is there any opportunities outside of London. I'd love to be able to live outside London and have a job but I know it's almost an impossibility. The only place in the country with close to a reliable stream of jobs is London. The main problem in this country is that you have the giant of London and everything else is pretty much an irrelevance. That's the perspective of the government seemingly. Until the rest of the country catches up we're all screwed

So having lurked for a while here and going back through the older posts it seems there is a feeling / hope that a HPC is around the corner. I think we all dream about it. But so far every time it looks like it might happen the government pull something out of their rectums and keep the whole thing afloat. I'm getting the feeling the day will never come, instead the best we will see is a bit of a slowdown. So for some of the more educated and knowledgeable members of the forum, id love to get your opinion: 1) What do you rate the chances of a crash in the next 5 - 10 years? 2) What conditions do you think need to be in place for it to happen? How high do interest rates need to go until things go tits up? 3) Will it destroy the country completely? Thanks for your replies

Britons need migration because we are too stupid.

I'm sure in the Telegraphs mind that picture is meant to provoke sympathy. However, anyone wearing Rupert the Bear trousers or a fleece under a suit jacket deserve to be thrown on a bonfire during winter, not cried over.

Thats true, if you can get a seat on a train.. which makes you one of the lucky few.

I think this is half of the problem, everyone is in London, everyone feels they HAVE to be in London and be seen to be in London. Its all so centralised. Its bizarre really, in 2016 where most business can be done online, or over the phone, where everyone works remotely, that there should be such a focus on squeezing everyone into such a small space. My company encourages remote working.. on paper. Except it doesn't in reality, they freak out if people aren't sat at their desks, even if there is no reason to logically be there. There is a huge resistance to new ways of working.

To be fair, I've lived in zone 2 of london , worked in zone 2 of london.. and STILL had a 2 hour commute every day.

To be fair to the guy he seems to pretty aware that he wasn't making a great return. I like the guys blog , I wouldn't lump him in with the scum

https://www.arbing.co.uk/london-property-investment/ Came across this guys blog a while back, it was this post that probably stopped me buying a flat and calmed my nerves about feeling like the only way to live is to become a BLTer. Seeing just how little he was making as a return was quite eyeopening.

Not really, I find RT hilariously one sided. Its agenda is blatant for everyone to see. You can almost judge the Russian position and things it wants to talk about from what stories RT is covering that day. RT really only covers stories that paint the US and Europe in general as chaotic, racist and corrupt places, usually in contrast to Russia which it paints in a far more friendly light. I've yet to see a positive story about the US or a negative story about anything that happens in Russia on RT. There is the occasional good stuff, Keizer report can be good, although hes nuts too. BBC is forced to be slightly neutral on some subjects, to the point where it becomes pointless because its not allowed to show an opinion on things.

Greetings. Like I said in the other thread, it was repeated articles in the Telegraph that convinced me to come here to vent. I'm getting close to 40 now, am I on the property ladder? No. Why? Because I've spent the last 10 years trying to somehow build up a deposit. Unlike almost all of my friends I didn't have a bank of mum and dad to rely on to put money down, plus I don't really feel like I want to go live in the middle of nowhere and commute in every day, because thats all I can afford. And I need to live near london if I want any hope of working. I feel like I'm a little alone in my thinking as well. Everyone I speak to seems to think its the height of insanity to not be buying a house.. property always goes up in price remember! None of them have ever put in any thought as to WHY house prices are so stupidly high, to them its just the natural order of things. For me, I see a society hooked on rock bottom interest rates and a culture that doesn't see any value in working for a living, far better to spend my time doing up my home or renting it out to some poor mug who just got off a boat. I've been reading this place for a while now, its one of the only boards I've seen willing to actually ruffle some feathers and seems to also have quite good percentage of people who know what they are talking about, in with the nutters.

We live in a world where its impossible to tell what is and isn't propaganda any more. You cannot avoid it.

I don't think there is a reliable news source out there, BBC is decent on most things, but clearly has, if not an agenda, then an obvious lens through which it views things. Have to admit I'd rather that than the obvious propaganda of RT... I prefer my propaganda to be a bit subtler.

I don't know if you ARE my landlady or not.. but you certainly sound like her. If so I thought this is a good time to mention that you've not fixed my windows in a year and my wife has almost frozen to death this winter.. hope you are enjoying the 2 grand I'm paying you each month on your bi annual 6 month holiday!

Hello everyone, I'm a long time lurker of this forum, and I love it... but it was this article that I saw last night that has got me so riled up that I just had to post something to vent my rage somehow! The sheer blindness of this piece is making me want to bang my head against a wall. Bear in mind this has been the top story on the Torygraph for 24 hours, THIS is the most important thing in the news right now, it goes to show exactly who reads that sloppy turd of a rag. They see literally nothing wrong with this. Everyone in the country should be a BTLer in their opinion, its the only way to live out your dying days. People complain that the British are feckless and lazy and their productivity is low and thats why they bring over workers from abroad.. but of course we are, our jobs bring in pocket change, our middle class dream is own a bunch of new build slums and make sure that those younger than us cannot save more than a fiver a month because we are keeping rents ludicrously high. Sorry if I'm just repeating whats been said already, I had to get it off my chest.