UK Politics

[Neil]

4 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

Why would you sell your house to rent?

Personal circumstances are changing and because the rental place has everything this disabled old git needs

[Neil]

Also, i get to extract cash from my asset. to give myself cash to play with.

[fraybentos1]

24 minutes ago, Neil said:

Personal circumstances are changing and because the rental place has everything this disabled old git needs

Fair enough, good luck in your new home 

[Neil]

2 hours ago, Nobody Interesting said:

and take off mortgage interest from any profit and unless you got a house for half it's value you will have made little or nothing.

I'll have paid a lot less in mortgage interest than the £55k I spent in rent in my first twelve years in bristol.

will have made a decent wedge just by a combination of lucky cumstances. My bank account will be showing plenty more than the nothing you suggest.

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

...except they would have to.

[steviewevie]

 

[philipsteak]

16 hours ago, fraybentos1 said:

Highly doubt this is true. Tripled since 2012? No chance!

A friend recently sold a small flat in Bristol and make a crazy profit on it. I can't remember the figures (not even ballpark) but I remember her being astounded. She knew it'd gone up a lot but was genuinely shocked with what she got for it. And she wasn't even trying. Took a fairly early decent offer, probably could've got more if she'd pushed but just wanted done as she'd already relocated to Cumbria. Like I say I don't know the figures but it was over a much shorter time span too, maybe 5 years. Maybe not even that.

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

 

[clarkete]

36 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

He played the flute? Is this him revealing that he's a Jethro Tull fan? 

[steviewevie]

12 minutes ago, clarkete said:

He played the flute? Is this him revealing that he's a Jethro Tull fan? 

Played a few musical instruments apparently... including violin with Fatboy slim

[steviewevie]

Lee Anderson doing proper gloves off dog whistling in his joining Reform speech.

[clarkete]

9 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Lee Anderson doing proper gloves off dog whistling in his joining Reform speech.

Popcorn out for the reform vs tory fight then.  Which side will farage choose? 

[Neil]

anderson has joined reform. 

do any northerners  here have an idea of whether he'll keep his seat now?

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

On 3/9/2024 at 12:25 PM, Justiceforcedave said:

It's 4 episodes at about 45 min each, so not a quick watch. I thought it was decent and very balanced. They've got a good set of talking heads, though notably Dom Cum, May and Sunak have opted not to be involved (a good call no doubt) and Acuri, Dorres and the haunted victorian pencil are very annoying.

Not a lot you don't know already, but interesting as a complete picture of how much Boris' career aspirations influenced Brexit and how inevitable it was that his stint as Prime Minister was doomed to failure. 

Give the first one a go and see how you feel.

Watched first episode last night. Both interesting and annoying. Interesting about his childhood and parents, annoying about how popular he got and how the country's future direction seemed to all depend on which side he picked in the EU remain/leave referendum.

[steviewevie]

Talking of brexit...we went through all that because Cameron decided it was necessary to hold his party together...and now they're all fighting each other and splitting off into other parties anyway.

[steviewevie]

4 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

Cameron did it cos UKIP were getting 12-15% in elections and polls so he could get their voters to vote Tory.

It worked and then back fired as we voted to leave.

What will the Tories promise to try and get back the 13% who say they will vote Reform?

I await a shift even further to the nasty right from them.

referendum on leaving planet earth.

[kaosmark2]

1 hour ago, Nobody Interesting said:

What will the Tories promise to try and get back the 13% who say they will vote Reform?

I await a shift even further to the nasty right from them.

Referendum on capital punishment probably.

[fraybentos1]

11 minutes ago, kaosmark2 said:

Referendum on capital punishment probably.

No doubt in my mind that the UK public would vote for this

[kaosmark2]

8 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

No doubt in my mind that the UK public would vote for this

It's one of the classic right-wing populist things. Who cares about the rights of criminals? I'm not a criminal so it couldn't affect me....

But every civilised society has also abolished it (yes I'm saying the USA isn't a civilised society).

[Neil]

1 hour ago, fraybentos1 said:

No doubt in my mind that the UK public would vote for this

Polls have shown that for decades.