petetong

^This and the fact they are bunch of crooks who do as their masters i.e. the government, tell them so house prices rise no matter what, so their voters are happy. They and the government thought they could inflate house prices ever higher implementing near ZIPR for the last 15 years, QE and giving £600 billion to their mates and various shell companies set up by crooks. Given the rise of AI/ML, I would have thought the various economists they employ to model and predict could be replaced with a decent ML model.

I'd expect nothing less from richi rich ..

Nope they did, there is footage and isn't the tractor footage, it was column of Ukrainian armour. They've destroyed at least 3 leopards, two in that disaster of an operation, one hit by a loitering drone, and probably more and 9 or 10 Bradleys in that same operation which is about 10% of the total number of Bradleys given to them. Simple math shows that the offensive is going to achieve very little, they've advanced a few kms and lost significant number of western armour given to them. With that attrition rate how are they going to advance hundreds of kms and take cities ? No chance unfortunately.

He is a self serving globalist shill and criminal. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Insourcing is supposedly happening, definitely is for some sectors in the US and europe such as sensitive tech. No doubt the idiots we have in charge will carry on full steam ahead ...

Hopefully a 100MT hit ...

Quick on the uptake aren't they ... only taken nearly 30 years for some to comprehend the obvious.

Good if you are a rentier, property spiv, house owner, employer, politician (majority), migrant and other vested interest. Bad if you are an employee, unemployed, sick/disabled, underclass, renter, potential home buyer, the natural environment, biodiversity etc.

Inflation started rising 1 full year before the Ukraine/Russia war started and gas prices increased. Sunak giving away £600 billion to his business mates and various criminals during covid is what has caused a lot of it.

It was some Labour MP. I didn't do a rigorous fact check 🤣

Yep they totally ignore the elephant in the room, most if not all employers don't want people with chronic health issues and disabilities. But actually they know this and don't care, it's just a way of cutting benefits for the sick.

Reading that article, it appears they are changing the test for limited capability for work and work-related activity, the end result will be most people being put on standard allowance as the test to qualify for limited capability for work will be impossible to pass apart from a small minority, i.e. they are saying unless you are a head in a jar you can work and if you don't we will penalise your benefits, so what if you have MS, polyarthritis etc ...

Talking it about this on politic today saying current benefits (universal credit) costs around £72 billion, universal income at this level for everyone would cost £60 billion, so cheaper. But of course Tories don't like it, as only the rich should get money for nothing, i.e. £600 billion during covid. Even if AI/ML does make 90% of people redundant in the future the Tories will still dogmatically be saying everyone should work 🤣 I am surprised they are against given most Tories are rentiers and would take most or all of it via rent.

Yeah like that is going to happen 🤣

"In work benefits" - I presume you mean ESA with no work requirements due to illness, which is what you claim if you become too sick to work. There are no other benefits in that scenario I am aware of, apart from PIP (in and out of work disability benefit) which was also recently changed to be harder to claim. They are changing it to be like PIP. I already know what the outcome will be, people who know how to game the system will continue to do so, whilst those genuinely ill will be screwed over. Every time they do something like this, that is the outcome. I don't know why Ian Duncan Smith is piping up, given the current system is a result of his previous reforms. Notice they never do a damn thing about housing benefit, that is deemed acceptable whatever the cost, now why is that ? 🤣

What do you do if you develop an incurable chronic disease which makes it impossible for you to work ever again ? A one way trip to Switzerland ?

You can see why they would think that if you look at government policy over the last 15 years.

To think these people have made a killing for 15 to 25 years and yet don't know interest rates aren't normally near 0%. Hmm ...

I've seen far worse than this ... Terraces which prior to covid were less £180K - £220K, now want anywhere from £280K to £450K depending on whether 3 or 4 bed.

Musk meh .. He wants rates cut and free money as usual..

Based on the last 3 years, feck all ...

Based on current asking prices and lack of houses on the market, I think the opposite. People think they are entitled to make a massive killing when they flog their house or they won't sell it.

They will put their investment, sorry home, on the market for 100% more than it's worth I would imagine.

ITV News just did a piece on it, the last sentence was "don't worry house price crashes are rare", they didn't even make an attempt to hide their ramping ...

Don't know where you are in the north but around me prices increased by around 30% in 2020/2021 and have gone up since, so I'd call that a boom.