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Agree with you Ian.
We had rates far too low and for far too long, and are reaping the fallout now.
In addition to inflation, in the past, and I’m talking of the period before the financial crisis, rates rises now and again used to check the increase in house prices and allowed to many more first time buyers to get on the ladder (also the lack of housing has contributed to higher prices in recent years also).
The govt seemed to give more energy into help to buy schemes which only helped keep prices up. They should have built more homes, plus the BoE should have raised rates from time to time as well to deter ‘bubbles’ being created, like we have now.
It’s a mess and will take decades to sort out!
I wouldn’t be surprised if they fund themselves CAS. They don’t have to work, probably have never done a day’s work in their lives.
For the amount of disruption they cause in the various guises they live in, they do need scrutiny, put on a list as disruptors who take things too far.
It’s both hijacking and obstruction.
And it’s interesting how large parts of msm portray or give exposure and coverage to these people.
Protest peacefully in a town where 200 unidentified illegal foreign males are dumped on your doorstep and you are labelled by the BBC as hard or far right.
But climb and wreck fencing, evade police capture and glue parts of your anatomy to fences to disrupt, and you are not labelled anything.
Agree with CAS.
These so called protesters probably have a different hi vis jacket for each day of the week.
Protesting is their life, their reason to exist, they have nothing else to do.More attention should be paid to the lives and activities of these people.
“Derogatory terms – calling people “ignorant” and needing to be “educated” is not language that wins hearts and minds”.
Good point Ian.
Same applies to climate where there are enough people ‘on both sides’ of the camp, but one chooses to belittle the other. And with their trait, the left, globalists, the putting down comes from them.
Bet the protesters are all ‘lefties’ as well!
If we are still here, you can imagine next year’s broadcast and race which will have quite a lot of percent giving more exposure to the activist’s. “Will they invade, won’t they”. The sigh of relief won’t be until the race is run and over.
Talking of “sighs of relief”, as well as people saying horses are so well looked after by everyone mentioned, I do find it ‘ a bit strange’ when owners and connections say the main thing is my horse comes back safe and sound!
Is this just for their conscience?
If you were so worried about your horse then don’t run them, and don’t deter from the fact they are there and this is all about glory for yourself!
Yes they should blame the protesters for stressing the horses GoRV, but they won’t do that!
Not sure if it’s me, but I can make a case out for most of the field! Maybe reflected how open it is with less rank outsiders this year.
Saying that, the current prices as I type look grim throughout the whole meeting!
Diol Ker and Our Power in the big one.
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VanillierWell I watched MOTD this morning which was 20 mins long, and my hope is people are thinking I’ve actually got back an hour of my life.
Hearing there’s live women’s football on BBC2 at lunchtime, hope that extends to this programme too.
Women’s commentary on football is the worst.I’m all for people expressing opinions.
I do wonder however the creation of social media and the problems and divisions it has caused between friends, families, even countries, with views right out in the open as it has highlighted polar opposites in people.
No one rarely wants to back down, and because statements and views are recorded in b&w gives sides time to counter challenge. And so it can go on and on, with ante’s being upped to try and win the argument.And in some cases the use and accusations can lead to courts, it’s become a very serious part of life.
Can’t say I watch MOTD anymore, but I might just tune in to take in a programme without the spiel of it’s lead hypocrite.
Richard says:
“ Cutting yourself off from your closest neighbours makes no sense whatsoever, be that the UK from the EU or Scotland from the UK. You’ll be forever within their sphere of influence but with absolutely no say in their affairs whatsoever”.Really? Ask Cameron when he went to their table to ask for reform. Taken from ITV news November 2015
“ In his speech, Mr Cameron is expected to say he has “every confidence” of reaching an agreement which works for Britain and other EU members.
But he will warn: “If we can’t reach such an agreement, and if Britain’s concerns were to be met with a deaf ear, which I do not believe will happen, then we will have to think again about whether this European Union is right for us. As I have said before – I rule nothing out.”Richard says:
“ Perhaps that helps explain a jump in support for Unionism, they’ve seen the dreadful effects of Brexit on the UK and don’t want to be cut even further adrift”.Really? Yes we left 3 years ago. But what have we faced in between? Seven weeks after we left we and the world shutdown. Then as we emerged from covid in early 2022 Putin decided to invade Ukraine. To me Brexit has been put on hold and even before 2 major world changing events it was never going produce results in the short term, and that is very naive to think a switch would be flicked and things would change.
In fact the only thing that was supposed to change immediately the day we voted to leave was a 10-15% drop in house prices. What happened to that, no one has explained on the remainer side what went wrong then. I would have welcomed the drop.But, looking back we can argue and argue and both sides would never agree still, it’s futile.
On the present, what we can agree on is how bad the govt are, the cons aren’t a Brexit party, the same as labour, well the ones who make the final decisions aren’t.
Many feel politically homeless. They don’t trust the cons, they are not delivering and labour would not have done any better.
If there was a GE now we know Labour would win quite comfortably, the polls can’t be that far out.
But, this probable peak for them may have come too early, the only way is down and as they become more vocal they too will fall favour to many voters.
Reform, who you have labelled far right Richard with Tice, just like certain MSM are calling the right either hard or far right even more at present are still too small to challenge.
All I would say so far out and with so much to play out still god knows how the GE will pan out.
I think it will be Brexit election still as many areas of Brexit still would not have been sorted out or gone through. The cons have been very reluctant, or at least the ones with powers have been.And I would also say watch out for Lee Anderson, who could just turn it around for the cons if his position could be elevated further.
100 days of unelected Rishi!
Still nothing done, no bounce back, no urgency, all the big issues still in limbo, or elsewhere.“ Ah yes good old Davos, the self appointed ‘global elite’ flying in by private jet and helicopter to preach to us, amongst other things, about climate change. Couldn’t give a toss what any of them have to say”.
Totally agree with you Richard, the collection of so called elitists with their ego’s and their warped thoughts on the future for mankind feels like something out of a Bond Movie.
