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Cannot believe it. Ed Milliband preaches about a generation priced out.

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  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    The bulls are often quick to play the "moral trump card" insinuating that those expecting house prices to fall further want to stomp on the faces of babies and kittens.

    Yet their typically unself-aware ramblings miss the salient fact that the status quo they advocated so highly brought down the global financial markets, ruined the economy, applied a significant burden to the generations to come, and not least of all unfairly blocked swathes of people and families from ever owning their own homes.

    These clowns pulled up the ladder behind them and gloated from the ramparts for a number of years.
    Thankfully those ladders have dropped back down with a bang. Their sour grapes attacks and comedy denialism now serves as entertainment.
  • twadge_face
    twadge_face Posts: 594 Forumite
    Labour's betrayal of a generation won't go unforgotten.

    Getting into bed with the bankers as they did was a deal with the devil.
    Long live the faces of t'wunty.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    !!!!!!_face wrote: »
    Labour's betrayal of a generation won't go unforgotten.

    Getting into bed with the bankers as they did was a deal with the devil.

    Must be getting crowded in that bed now.
  • twadge_face
    twadge_face Posts: 594 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Must be getting crowded in that bed now.
    OK, I didn't make a great deal of sense as I didn't bother to qualify my comments... but what does THAT mean??
    Long live the faces of t'wunty.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    It's absolutely infruriating.

    They did nothing to slow down the housing boom.

    They did nothing to help younger people "buy a house" as they put it.
    !

    You can't have it both ways, we had a housing boom because it was easier to buy icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    StevieJ wrote: »
    You can't have it both ways, we had a housing boom because it was easier to buy icon7.gif

    And who had the final powers of regulation, Stevie?
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    !!!!!!_face wrote: »
    OK, I didn't make a great deal of sense as I didn't bother to qualify my comments... but what does THAT mean??

    With the Tories, LibDems and Labour
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    And who had the final powers of regulation, Stevie?

    I am saying that it was easier for young people to buy under the majority of Labour rule than before and presumably after. You wrote that they didn't help young people to buy.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    StevieJ wrote: »
    You can't have it both ways, we had a housing boom because it was easier to buy icon7.gif
    StevieJ wrote: »
    I am saying that it was easier for young people to buy under the majority of Labour rule than before and presumably after. You wrote that they didn't help young people to buy.

    So were straight back to "we need more credit"? More debt.

    That appears to be the answer for absolutely everything.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    So were straight back to "we need more credit"? More debt.

    That appears to be the answer for absolutely everything.

    What are you on about? Must be that that Chewbacca defence again;)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
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