Wales Is Finished - But Not Until Next Year

[The Masked Tulip]

I assume though that this is being repeated across the UK and is not just Wales atypical? If this is the level of cuts coming then the knock-on affect on job losses and, naturally, house prices will be enormous.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11260029

Local authorities are predicting a budget shortfall of £609m over the next three years as public finances are squeezed.

Figures obtained by BBC Wales show that authorities are planning for cuts of between 5% and 20% to their budgets.

Cuts for 2010/11 will be absorbed by the Welsh Assembly Government.

Steve Thomas, chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), said the figures were "conservative predictions".

He described the level of cuts as "frightening" but warned they could get worse and last up to a decade.

Dr Andrew Crawley, senior lecturer in economics at the University of West England, said cuts to councils were favoured by central government because they were "a quick way to bring down the deficit".

But he warned: "There will be a huge spillover effect on the local economy.

"In Wales where public sector employment is so high, and in areas like Swansea where it is over 30%, there will be a knock-on effect when jobs are lost."

I suppose I should not apply for that 5-a-day Fruit& Veg Welsh speaking TV Producer job then.

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70% of economy is public sector, so batten down the hatches!

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Offers here coming in typically 20% below asking or more according to EA contact (S W Wales chain) - says the housing market has just completely died - nobody really seems serious about buying without massive discounts. Who knows, this could be a crash on the scale of Irelands. Never seen anything like this before.

Edited September 16, 2010 by gruffydd

[fluffy666]

Will we still be allowed to visit, or will they just put some police-accident tape across from Bristol to Liverpool?

[The Masked Tulip]

Offers here coming in typically 20% below asking or more according to EA contact (S W Wales chain) - says the housing market has just completely died - nobody really seems serious about buying without massive discounts. Who knows, this could be a crash on the scale of Irelands. Never seen anything like this before.

I am seeing loads of houses coming back on the market after going SSTC in the Spring/Summer - plenty more are still SSTC despite going SSTC in May and even as far back as April.

I think next year will become a bloodbath for house prices in Wales.

[Caius]

Will we still be allowed to visit, .............................................................?

Hopefully.....not!

[The Masked Tulip]

Will we still be allowed to visit, or will they just put some police-accident tape across from Bristol to Liverpool?

The dyke didn't stop us getting out so I doubt some tape will... Of course, the tape will have to be bilingual so not to offend the Taffia.

[Caius]

The dyke didn't stop us getting out so I doubt some tape will... Of course, the tape will have to be bilingual so not to offend the Taffia.

Aye.....they even have to have it in a foreign language now ie English. What's the world coming to eh?

[The Masked Tulip]

Aye.....they even have to have it in a foreign language now ie English. What's the world coming to eh?

You lot are so out of touch with the majority in Wales that you are just a joke. Alas, a parasitical one.

[Caius]

You lot are so out of touch with the majority in Wales that you are just a joke. Alas, a parasitical one.

Are you sane?

[fluffy666]

Hopefully.....not!

Well, we'll just have to find a modest proposal* to deal with the problem, then..

*Substitute 'Wales' for 'Ireland'

[The Masked Tulip]

Well, we'll just have to find a modest proposal* to deal with the problem, then..

*Substitute 'Wales' for 'Ireland'

Frightening mindset.

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Dean Swift's part of Dublin was a slum-filled hell right through until the 20th century - the Liberties - full of weavers and textiles workers, many of them French Huguenots, who had ended up without a trade - unbelievable squalor and destituion.

[Bosh]

Sell Wales to the chinese and throw in the Isle of Mann as a sweetner.

[Realistbear]

I assume though that this is being repeated across the UK and is not just Wales atypical? If this is the level of cuts coming then the knock-on affect on job losses and, naturally, house prices will be enormous.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11260029

I suppose I should not apply for that 5-a-day Fruit& Veg Welsh speaking TV Producer job then.

Our government, both central and local, is busted. We will follow the US with a lag of about 18 months. No way a £5TR debt can be repaid with a few cuts here and there. The pain has yet to be felt IMO as we are still in the "phoney war" stage.

[timebandit]

I have already booked Wales for a car park and refreshments tents, when the next civil war starts.

[Bosh]

I have already booked Wales for a car park and refreshments tents, when the next civil war starts.

Park and Ryde

[HPCatlast.]

Offers here coming in typically 20% below asking or more according to EA contact (S W Wales chain) - says the housing market has just completely died - nobody really seems serious about buying without massive discounts. Who knows, this could be a crash on the scale of Irelands. Never seen anything like this before.

Not sure if I should have started a new thread with this insight, but this thread seems suitable.

"typically 20%", surely not, I just found a discount of 90%!!

Found on Zoopla, via it's 'biggest reduction' section, but I don't know how to provide a link.

The property is in Abergaveny, originally at £17,500,000, but now only £1,750,000!!

Bargains are about now, we just got to find em.

[HPCatlast.]

Sell Wales to the chinese and throw in the Isle of Mann as a sweetner.

Don't "throw in the Isle of MAN", it's a bikers paradise (just returned from MGP), but please move it closer to the coast of France!