news & politics:discussion

[steviewevie]

House prices do need to come down, best way to do that is supply side, but unless more houses are built only other was is demand side, either via interest rates or govt help to buy or dramatic reduction in population.

Edited October 8, 2022 by steviewevie

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

polls still v bad for Truss...if carries on like this for a few more months I reckon she'll get kicked out.

[Crazyfool01]

On 10/7/2022 at 4:21 PM, steviewevie said:

Conor Burns was a naughty boy at conference apparently...

seems like he touched a thigh .... unknown if it was consensual or not 

[Rufus Gwertigan]

20 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

seems like he touched a thigh .... unknown if it was consensual or not 

Whats the World coming to when you can't touch some lasses thigh or arse. Its madness I tell you. , 😉

[steviewevie]

14 minutes ago, Rufus Gwertigan said:

Whats the World coming to when you can't touch some lasses thigh or arse. Its madness I tell you. , 😉

pc gone mad

[steviewevie]

 

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

Of course he is. 

[steviewevie]

[Neil]

7 hours ago, OverlyComplicated said:

This is exactly what you don't want to happen, yes house prices are too high and it would be a good thing if they could be managed down gradually but a sudden crash would be disastrous for many people's livelihoods.

As a mechanism for bringing house prices down increasing interest rates is awful, if prices fall as interest rates increase you have people stuck in negative equity so can't sell their home whilst not being able to afford the increased mortgage payments. 

If you want to bring house prices down look at developers, make them build more affordable housing not just the most profitable larger homes, make them build on the tracts of lands they buy up as fast as possible rather than holding back to restrict supply and maintain prices. 

More affordable housing is lower quality hpusing and lower wages for builders. 

[steviewevie]

21 minutes ago, Neil said:

More affordable housing is lower quality hpusing and lower wages for builders. 

with govt/council intervention, regulation and subsidies it doesn't have to be at all.

Edited October 8, 2022 by steviewevie

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

Talk of Tory manoeuvres against Truss in the press this evening. Early days but still worth noting. They will be playing a massive risk doing that, they will seem as all over the place. 

[Guest]

lol 

[Guest]

They’ve run out people to blame. Let’s go on a journey of their blame game:

- New Labour

- Lib Dems

- EU

- Judges

- MPs

- Scientists

- Civil servants

- Lawyers

- BBC

- Their own MPs

Who is left? I’m sure their fans will come at me to compare that list to Germany’s (or another random EU country) but seriously think who else is left for them to blame before they admit their own fault? 

[pink_triangle]

7 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

They’ve run out people to blame. Let’s go on a journey of their blame game:

- New Labour

- Lib Dems

- EU

- Judges

- MPs

- Scientists

- Civil servants

- Lawyers

- BBC

- Their own MPs

Who is left? I’m sure their fans will come at me to compare that list to Germany’s (or another random EU country) but seriously think who else is left for them to blame before they admit their own fault? 

I'm sure Harry, Megan and Greta Thunberg all will get the blame as well.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, pink_triangle said:

I'm sure Harry, Megan and Greta Thunberg all will get the blame as well.

Yes of course!

How I could forget them but especially environmentalists. 

Edited October 8, 2022 by Ozanne

[Rufus Gwertigan]

3 hours ago, Ozanne said:

Yes of course!

How I could forget them but especially environmentalists. 

Don't forget trans folk

[steviewevie]

and Jaimie Oliver

[steviewevie]

and King Charles

[Crazyfool01]

10 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

and King Charles

No he just does as he’s told by queen Lizzie truss 

[steviewevie]

poll bounce

[Guest]

2 hours ago, steviewevie said:

and King Charles

Don’t start people off on the Royals again 😉

[Crazyfool01]

yeah and the royals can do one with their tie in with the daily fail …. Horrible lot 😡

[Guest]

10 hours ago, Ozanne said:

They’ve run out people to blame. Let’s go on a journey of their blame game:

- New Labour

- Lib Dems

- EU

- Judges

- MPs

- Scientists

- Civil servants

- Lawyers

- BBC

- Their own MPs

Who is left? I’m sure their fans will come at me to compare that list to Germany’s (or another random EU country) but seriously think who else is left for them to blame before they admit their own fault? 

So to add to this we have:

- Environmentalists

- Trans people

- The King

Yet some will still turn a blind eye to them and claim the people highlighting these issues are the problem. I wonder just how long it will be till the Tories start blaming every day folk for the fault of the nation? By then it’ll be too late though.