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Halifax figures Thursday - Chief Economist or Spin Merchant?

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  • MissMoneypenny
    MissMoneypenny Posts: 5,324 Forumite
    I thought you were on your hols NDG?
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    WEnt on Monday, back today. The charming Asylum & Immigration Tribunal stuck one of my cases in today (11th) without talking to my clerks first. And then refused to adjourn it.

    So I left Porth, near Newquay, at the crackiest of dawn cracks this morning to go to Feltham :mad:
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • poppy10_2
    poppy10_2 Posts: 6,588 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Inflation was a lot higher, though, I think, in the early 90s?

    True. This is what people forget when they say that prices "only" fell by 20% or so in the last crash - the effect of inflation meant that the price falls were accentuated, because the price of everything else (and average wages) was going up rapidly while house prices were falling.
    poppy10
  • obsessed_saver
    obsessed_saver Posts: 511 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Wages aren't going up that much though. So we've got inflation in food, fuel, tax, and utility bills, but wages are not going up so much.
  • MissMoneypenny
    MissMoneypenny Posts: 5,324 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    WEnt on Monday, back today. The charming Asylum & Immigration Tribunal stuck one of my cases in today (11th) without talking to my clerks first. And then refused to adjourn it.

    So I left Porth, near Newquay, at the crackiest of dawn cracks this morning to go to Feltham :mad:

    That sucks. You must be shattered.
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • WTF?_2
    WTF?_2 Posts: 4,592 Forumite
    obsessed_saver wrote: »
    Wages aren't going up that much though. So we've got inflation in food, fuel, tax, and utility bills, but wages are not going up so much.

    Yep, basically our 'national average' standard of living is set to take a huge hit.

    The government as desperate to hold wages as they act as a handbrake on CPI. However, the inflation is already in the system and since the housing/credit bubble has burst it has found a new home in oil and soft commodities.
    --
    Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    MissMoneypenny wrote: »
    That sucks. You must be shattered.

    It sucks indeed. Normally, I'd be professionally fine to return the case. In fact, professionally I'd have been fine in this case too. But my main client was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, and his child bride (aged 16) was absolutely terrified. I'd spent ages reassuring her in conference, telling her I'd be with her, not let her get shouted at (not that she would have been, but she was afraid of it. Immigration Judges don't shout at Appellants much, just barristers).

    I didn't therefore feel I could turn to her and say, "sorry! Off on my hols. Have fun, see ya".
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • harryhound
    harryhound Posts: 2,662 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    WEnt on Monday, back today. The charming Asylum & Immigration Tribunal stuck one of my cases in today (11th) without talking to my clerks first. And then refused to adjourn it.

    So I left Porth, near Newquay, at the crackiest of dawn cracks this morning to go to Feltham :mad:

    I see that we the tax payers have given that "prison" at Feltham a new access spur from the A244. (Which is more than IBM every got for setting up in Havant - have a look next time you go along the A27) Good idea to sketch in Norbury Road. It runs due north as an extension to Chertsey road. Don't get confused, when trying to cut through to LHR Terminal's 4 & 5:rolleyes:.

    Looks like you are in a growth industry, seeing law if not "justice" done in this world full of too many people, who were self evidently not born equal.

    Can I underwrite your bills of exchange:D

    Now remind me, what are we meant to be discussing.
  • Snooze
    Snooze Posts: 2,041 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    It sucks indeed. Normally, I'd be professionally fine to return the case. In fact, professionally I'd have been fine in this case too. But my main client was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, and his child bride (aged 16) was absolutely terrified. I'd spent ages reassuring her in conference, telling her I'd be with her, not let her get shouted at (not that she would have been, but she was afraid of it. Immigration Judges don't shout at Appellants much, just barristers).

    I didn't therefore feel I could turn to her and say, "sorry! Off on my hols. Have fun, see ya".

    You should put them all on a boat and send them back where they came from! ;)

    Rob
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    I don't think even the AIT are going to return a tortured, mad young man and his terrified child bride to Afghanistan. I hope.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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