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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

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  • Annpan
    Annpan Posts: 263 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
  • baby_boomer
    baby_boomer Posts: 3,883 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Perhaps they are trying to hide the impact on sales of their thoughtless floating of the idea of a stamp duty holiday some time in the future?
  • napoleon
    napoleon Posts: 611 Forumite
    It's scanadalous the depths the government will stoop to in an attempt to pull the wool over our eyes.
  • Gorgeous_George
    Gorgeous_George Posts: 7,964 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Do not mistake incompetence for deviousness.

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • Banderman
    Banderman Posts: 351 Forumite
    Probably a bit of both. They always get caught out in the end.
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Maybe the figures have bounced back with a vengeance and do not want to publicise the fact.
  • harbinger13
    harbinger13 Posts: 138 Forumite
    Economical with the Truth
    Recession - if you are forced to drink beer at your home.
    Depression - if you have no beer to drink at all!
    I don't see any of the above - so where is it (recession)?
  • FraudBuster
    FraudBuster Posts: 931 Forumite
    Have they just found out about the gifted deposit frauds?

    have been withdrawn from publication because they appear to be wrong.
  • WTF?_2
    WTF?_2 Posts: 4,592 Forumite
    mr.broderick wrote: »
    Maybe the figures have bounced back with a vengeance and do not want to publicise the fact.

    Indeed - I hear HMRC insiders are already scooping up the bargains while they are still at such affordable low prices before the public get wind of the recovery.:cool:
    --
    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.
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