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You said base rate cuts nailed on 6 months ago

It's just another example of the repercussions of trying to hold up prices. This collapse in volume will kill the patient (economy). It will and probably is rippling out as we speak in terms of estate agents, solicitors, banks, mortgage provider's, surveyors, builders...etc. The idea persists at the moment that the only answer is to lower rates but that's not been helped by the BOE spinning a yarn for over a year how it was going to be temporary and the media VI's thinking about their personal circumstances. The plateau only exists thanks to the market freezing up but the tide will turn once the damage felt from this begins to outweigh the damage from prices going south. There's only so long you can live off scraps Banks especially will begin to favour transaction volumes to return.

I visited in December, nice place and pleasant to get around. The cities inherent problem is it has a lot of bottle necks for the amount of people. I'm sure what enhances this problem is the Instagram culture, namely women who want to take 60 pictures minimum per photo opportunity, especially at the popular locations. They snap, review, delete, snap, review, delete.....ridiculous. I p1ssed off an Italian woman with her daughters by granting them no more than 2 minutes of me watching this farce before I walked into frame and took in the veiw for myself at the top of the bridge. "Scusi, Scusi"....simply ignored her.

Suppose similar criticisms I've heard about no fault divorce. It means no chance to delay the process legally to give yourself breathing room (i.e. a chance at least get your ducks in a row and overcome what's about to come..i.e to find alternative accommodation as one example. There should be an improved (or higher threshold) of justification to lose something as basic as the roof over your head. A lot of people can end up on the streets and in many cases never get off them. The only real safety net in this country in these situations is if you have kids in tow, otherwise go get f**ked.

If you dig into it a disproportionate amount of the prison population hails from single parent households.

You’ll just neuter the vast majority of parents in reality, as Timm says the nuclear deterrent needs to be believed because at some point in every teenagers life they will test boundary’s. Especially aggressive lads on a spectrum I also believe we’re going too far in pandering to kids, psychological damage my ar$e. That’s extreme levels of violence that existing law should already cater for. Kids also need to learn mental fortitude and if they don’t learn it young then they’ll find out the hard way in later life…as said sh1t happens in life and you need mental fortitude to deal with it

Yep, considering you'll have legions of teenagers spiting that in your face with far more serious spite. You'll have parents counting down the day until they're 18, that's the realistic outcome to this daft idea.

No because this method simply undermines the role of the parent. Unless you interview people who can or can't be parents then you can't trust them to be parents at all. It's beyond ridiculous to grant parental responsibility and the rights that come with it but where it comes to discipline they cannot be trusted. If my father hadn't been present in my life and had there not been a realistic authority in the house whereby I just knew if I took the p1ss there WOULD be a realistic chance of repercussions then I'm certain I would have gone down a different path. It's game over in regards to keeping young, immature hormonal boys in check if parents cannot be entrusted to handle their own kids as they see fit, within reason. it's not black and white. If kids operate under the idea you cannot hit them AT ALL under any circumstance which is what this is conveying, then forget it's over. Start building up more prisons now because you're going to need them

Yes, I've seen it where a meeting of the force given out teaches the boy consequences which he learns form but this is based on the context it's the first time he physically realises consequence and it shocks him. But yes I agree, casually doling out violence will make him immune so it depends on the context.

I disagree and it depends entirely on the context which no law can cater for. Hammer to crack a nut, I don't believe you need extra laws to make a distinction between discipline and outright violence to kids. it's called common-sense.

Nope, I'm not saying anything of the sort and neither am I suggesting anyone whacks kids on the regular. I'm simply saying without a clear authority in the house teenage boys WILL and DO run amok. I've seen it regularly where single mothers become victims without such a figure and your warped idea that a kid will turn into a well rounded adult on the farcical belief no one can EVER meet them head on when they're upping the anti to such degrees.

At some point the average teenage lad will challenge the authority in the household and the only thing in his way is if there's another more powerful authority in the house (i.e. a man) who can face down that challenge. It's a farcical concept this can always be accomplished over a cup of tea and a handshake.

But it’s largely non unionised and there’s less places to hide. When the tide goes out especially in the private sector every rock is overturned when cost savings need to be found. In contrast it’s nigh on impossible to get rid of time wasting public sector workers. Councils have literally had to go bankrupt first before redundancies start happening.

Traders pulling back rate cut predictions to November. You’ve only been out by 12 months and let me guess….Don’t miss the boat.

Yep, that sort of ‘crowd’ she hangs with only largely exists in London. She wouldn’t find it with the average working class woman in Hull.

Agreed. What moved rates substantially since 2008 was two crisis The banking crisis The inflation crisis I can’t foresee them, despite stewys continued disappointment, bouncing rates up and down like a yoyo based on monthly rolling stats. I suspect they’ll remain where they are for quite a while yet and give it a chance to stabilise.

Plus the train costs to get into London are equally becoming farcical. Somethings got to give.

I suspect what also may offset it was boomers post covid stepping out the workforce. It wouldn't shock me if the UK relied very heavily on that cohort in terms of skilled labour (i.e. traditional jobs) hence your comments.

Agreed. Looks like techs been hammered in the pure tech employers (gaming, Microsoft, etc) but it looks like it’s been more stable if it’s in an industry with a real world practical application. When I say stable, no huge cullings but no real openings either. Budgets for projects just got put in freeze although I suspect that’s slowly thawing now

Past two weeks I’ve been approached twice for new roles in my space but the previous 12 months have been dead. (Quietest I’ve know in 9 years) One of those has been a contract job but with the state of the market you’d have to be a brave man to give up a perm role. I can chance contract roles in perhaps two years when the mortgage is gone knowing the mrs has a job for life.

Yep I can guarantee Iran has been watching the Ukraine conflict with a keen eye the past two years, watching both sides deploy drone tactics

I wouldn’t say ineffective, how many of those drones were decoys. Presumably a lot. It’s a hell of a way to stretch western logistics blowing dud drones out of the sky and testing to see how deep those defences and logistics really are. You can’t casually bomb consulates and expect no response and it does send a message to Isreal that the days of sitting behind superior tech is over.

It's a triple nothing burger so he predicted

Yemen launching drones

Rock the casbah