Where do you think we will be in 12 months

overlander

But you forget one important point the great British public are up to their eyeballs in debt so no spare cash. Brown is so deep in debt its just a matter of time before he is forced to face up to the massive problem he created. The only way out for him is to extract more cash out of the already over indebted public, its gonna end in tears.

amcluesent

>Brown to win the next election in the summer by a narrow margin<

Would the last wage earner to leave Britain please turn out the lights...

Mr_Falling_Star

amcluesent wrote: »

>Brown to win the next election in the summer by a narrow margin<

Would the last wage earner to leave Britain please turn out the lights...

Well Stan James bookmakers are offering 6/1 if labour do win, worth a punt possibly (dont bet the rent money though) :j

SingleSue

12 months time?

Hmm, well hopefully I will be back at work.
My eldest son will be 16 and will hopefully have a part time job.
My youngest will be at high school and probably raising merry hell...which then means I have to stop work as I constantly have to be at the school until they then decide to send him where he should have gone in the first place - a specialist school for autistic children.
Hopefully, I will have found a man to cook me dinners or take me out to posh restaurants (well I can dream can't I?). :rotfl:

As for the economy....ermmmm, I can see it being very bad with lots of familiar High street names gone, more unemployment and house prices tumbling as unemployment takes its toll.

luvpump

Mr_Falling_Star wrote: »

Well Stan James bookmakers are offering 6/1 if labour do win, worth a punt possibly (dont bet the rent money though) :j

I use Stan James quite a bit...its was 5/1 when i checked & thats for an
"Overall Commons Majority" ... cant see it myself ...

bo_drinker

Mr_Falling_Star wrote: »

Where will we be in 12 months time, who knows? But isn't that the same for any Year? I believe the Internet, while extremely useful, also allows the more doomish amongst us to wind everyone up and spread despondency thus increasing the problem. This facility , of course, was not available in the 70's,80's and 90's.

If you want my predictions for 2009

• House prices continue to fall for a while then bottom out through the summer and then slowly start to pick up (way to much pent up demand)
• Unemployment to rise to 1.75m (using the claimant count used in other recessions for comparison) but then levelling out.
• Oil to start rising slowly.
• Brown to win the next election in the summer by a narrow margin.
• Repossesions to rise a amount before lenders see that that option is neither viable or politically welcome

I don't buy all these armageddon theories, basically people will not put up with what they would have done 20 years ago so something will happen to stop them.

I seem to remember in July people saying Oil is going to hit $200 dollars a barrel and inflation will go through the roof, whither now that prophecy?

I am inclined to agree with most of that.

1echidna

I'll cut most of the doomladen predictions I might give but don't some optimistic people here living in a fool's paradise know that bubbles when burst (and this one has been well and truly burst) collapse rather dramatically and we are witnessing the mother of all bubbles being pricked.

neverdespairgirl

In a year's time, the economy will be in deep doo-doo.

But we'll be preparing to celebrate Christmas, the world won't have ended, and things will get better in the medium-term.

wymondham

Mr_Falling_Star wrote: »

I don't buy all these armageddon theories

I did'nt until the likes of Woolworths, MFI etc going under - companies that have been around for decades (almost centuries!) now going to the wall - this does look different this time...

bo_drinker

wymondham wrote: »

I did'nt until the likes of Woolworths, MFI etc going under - companies that have been around for decades (almost centuries!) now going to the wall - this does look different this time...

NAH weak players relying on credit. You know the saying Credit where credits due. Not there obviously.