MrPin
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Tad breezy out there. Suppose I'd better let the kids in.
Only if you know them!
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Yep, education inflation means that for most jobs which 1980's/1990's perhaps good GCSE's would do now you need a degree.
It's even better now you pay £27k not to be on the unemployment register for 3 years.
That's a comment a friend of mine made in the 1990s! Borrowing from a bank to pay your own dole for 3 years!
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Agreed.
Sounds rather like where I was in 2002/3[1]: far worse off than on the dole. If IDS's reforms haven't done anything to fix that, what's the point?
[1] And earlier, but 2002 is when the savings ran out.
I've had some scary times too! Part time work just doesn't work if you are unemployed! Always the small people that get crapped on! The likes of Google get way with paying in a lesser share, by moving their offices to Bermuda or whatever! I'm sounding like Karl Marx!
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Dunno if its relevant but southwest USA especially California is in the midst of an epic drought....there aren't any winter rains replenishing the mountain snow which feeds the rivers through the summer. Bound to be effects in the agricultural sector
There appears to be some unusually crap weather in the USA. Snow in Nashville?
North Carolina too! 
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Lad the same age as me in the flat underneath got evicted last week. His mistake was taking on part time work, which led to a whole host of problems, he ended up being worse off than dole and his hb claim got messed up. He wasn't on top of everything and he got evicted.
His possessions thrown out into a skip and then destroyed before he had time to collect them. Fortunately for him, I took most of his stuff into my flat, and he will be collected it on Monday.
He was legally evicted but surely it can't be legal to just throw somebodies possessions into a skip and them get put into landfill?
Pretty crap outcome, for someone who was "having a go"! It's shameful that people are treated like this!
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Going to university was the best thing I ever did and would have been well worth the money had there been tuition fees at the time. Agreed that I probably wouldn't be saying the same thing if I done basket weaving at Scumbag poly mind you.
Although I enjoyed University (mostly), I would be worried about having debts that amounted to 2-3 years take home pay, when I left, assuming I got a job!
A friend of mine has just finished paying off his much more modest "student loan" after ten years, and the debt was not so big then!
I think I owed about £60, when I graduated!
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Oh indeed, it was actually last Tuesday IIRC that seemed like the end of days, the local radio as I was driving home was pretty much given over to the travel bulletin: tree down at, electric lines across the road at. I was driving back thinking they hadn't affected me yet when they started reading out ones that did
It looks like West Wales has had the worst of it over the last week.
I shall ask some people in Wales. I have friends there! Down in Carmarthen and Pembroke!
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No flooding here in the overdensely populated village/town of Street.
Ha! You deserve a wild night out in Clevedon where "the party never stops"!
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Quick bump for Freetrader's thread, extremely relevant with all the flooding.
I'm still in Somerset, have to disappoint. Not flooded here yet! Bit wet though! Haven't there been storms around County Hovis?
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Nice one!
So today we get the news that that the politicians are doing something: they are going round with their wellies on, standing in water, getting their photos taken doing empathy.
Somerset has been very wet for two months. It's only when the water hits Surrey that it becomes newsworthy.
For those Londoners who don't know where Somerset is, you get on the M4 at Chiswick, and it's past Windsor!
Frankly I can't see that many people are daft enough not to have their property insured! Contents are a different matter, as most tat can be replaced in a week or so.
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It's not very nice being flooded out, even if you have a big yacht parked in the garden!
We assume they are insured, go into rented for a bit, and get a new kitchen for nothing, off the insurance. It's hardly "unimaginable hardship". I believe Surrey is more pleasant than Afghanistan or Somalia.
Also remember, any natural "disaster" is not newsworthy until it hits the Home Counties.
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How much foreign aid spending is really directed by MI6 (or stuffed into brown envelopes and passed under tables)?
Seems very odd that the Tories won't touch it, since the political backlash would be relatively small.
These are only "bribes" for private companies, and may amount to prison for directors. For Government, this is "aid" and could lead to a Knighthood.
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i went to one early 2007...it was manic...the lot i was interested in sold for silly money...12 months later a similar place sold for 25% less on the open market.
caveat emptor
2007 was manic! I was offered a job "elsewhere", and I sold up! It was easy to shift! I couldn't believe my luck, and luck it was! I can't make any claims for economic prediction, or astute financial planning.
It appears "mania" may be back...
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This could become amusing. Effectively the agent is the contracted by both parties in the sale.
Therefore when the property has a problem found after completion and the buyer wants someone to sue it wouldn't surprise me if the agent is a viable target. Given the buyer has paid them a fee they should be able to expect the agent to have verified the property
There is a clear conflict of interest, and this sounds illegal, like both parties in a divorce using the same lawyer.
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BBC and Sky in 'Thameswatch' luvvie over-drive. Never seen so many live broadcasts from Datchet - accompanied by an army of Tory MPs it seems.
A live OB from Datchest just had 3 or 4 numpties acting like chumps behind the BBC journalist - gutting to think that they will each probably grow up and inherit houses worth a small fortune.
Beeb is now in Wraysbury watching "inch by inch" the water rise. I imagine the good folk of Somerset and Carlisle are well chessed off.
Ah yes indeed, Somerset has been very wet for some time. Only a disaster when it happens in Weybridge!
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I don't think Council Tax should be used for this!
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Don't be so old fashioned.
Could have been let out as flats to Foreign students at the "University of Knightsbridge", that bogus institution based in Denmark or wherever, that sells PhDs, based on "life experience" and a swift bank transfer of funds.
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Seems to be a classic example of property hoarding. Amazing how many empty homes there are around Mayfair and Belgravia. Exclusive London always feels like a ghost town to me. They are not homes, they are investments.
Probably somebody foreign then! You should look after stuff you purchase.
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I can see a lot of people giving up on this mobile comms nonsesnse, as they have on television! It's bad value when I can get all the bandwidth I can eat for a flat fee on cable, or at work. Why pay another expensive fee to watch cat videos on a 2 inch screen?
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True.
Remember the big accountancy firms in the 90s?
Always used to make a big thing of recruiting the brightest and best of the best.
And then putting them into a job which you could do with an A level maths.
Then they started doing all these things with computers, or other clever schemes that blewup in their faces sometime later down the line.
I remember those firms!
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Sending kids to boarding school when both parents working can be better and cheaper than childcare.
I don't have children, but yes, it;s better for them to be beaten by a stranger!
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Basically a massive Islamic statement bearing over the London skyline, so I doubt the owners are bothered.
It's hardly Islamic, although some of the funders might be!
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It's a monstrous glass turd.
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The banks killed off cheque books, or at least they tried.
I still have one.
Crashing In The South East
in House prices and the economy
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What a nice selling feature! I want one! Loads of crap just "gone", along with an "offensive wife".