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Baby Boomers at it Again
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Angry_Bear wrote: »I did. It may be hard for you to see, but reading this thread with no prior knowledge - your comments come across worst (imo).
Good show sir. I can't decide whether I took more enjoyment from you eviscerating him with his own words or the dire protestations of innocence you got in response :THaving a signature removed for mentioning the removal of a previous signature. Blackwhite bellyfeel double plus good...0 -
What's wrong with class warfare? Remember the upper class only got were they are by treading on the rest of us....shake it up I say!;)chewmylegoff wrote: »Labour and their ideological class warfare are pretty good at it too.0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »Wrap it up toots. You can dress it any which you like but your duck won't waddle and your goose won't sing.
You have plundered the nations piggy bank and everybody knows it.
How are things at the start of 2013 in that parallel universe that you inhabit ? Just as moronic as usual it appears.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
See, what you lot don`t know is the meeting us boomers had. Was some years ago, gleefully, we voted to screw our kids over. How can we do that we wondered? Easy, ramp up house prices.
Oh great idea. My 80k house becomes 240k in a few years. Have a bit of that. I am totally rich! Didn`t do anything for it.
Why not borrow against this new found wealth. I mean, you have not got a great job earning you loads, just been in the place for years. Go for it, plasmas and 4x4s look OK.
All seemed OK. Banks were very lax on their lending. My, my, got all this cash in my house, might as well have that you are worth it holiday.
Let`s strip out a bit of cash for a buy to let. Like it. ( Just realising that annuities have dropped on our pensions ) Lots cannot buy so we can storm in and make money from others. Depriving them from house ownership.
Oh hang on said " I saved the world Gordon Brown ". Bit of a problem " Been sucking up to the banks and they have got totally out of order. Best use tax payers money to bail these lads out. After all, they are the boys with the toys.
Good ole bank of England , not satisfied with 5% interest rate. Low I would say. 0.5% is the order of the day.
A call that is not a problem, it is a cry for help. Yet still, them there property prices hoover somewhere up in the stratosphere. Goodness knows what would happen if they collapsed.
Wierd and strange springs to mind.0 -
Barclays launches new first-time buyer mortgage
First-time buyers will need only a 5pc deposit if parents open a linked Barclays savings account.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/mortgages/9790258/Barclays-launches-new-first-time-buyer-mortgage.html."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Barclays launches new first-time buyer mortgage
First-time buyers will need only a 5pc deposit if parents open a linked Barclays savings account.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/mortgages/9790258/Barclays-launches-new-first-time-buyer-mortgage.html.
Looks like a seriously crap deal
'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 Thatcher0 -
prevented buy to let and second homes inflating house prices.
Just wanted to point out that BTL, has only partially filled the gap created by the government sell off of council houses under the right to buy scheme.
The government show no desire to reverse this decision and openly see private renting needs to grow as the answer to the rental market according to the report by Sir Adrian Montague.
Grant Schapps is also in agreement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19348351:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »
Every single first-time-buyer I know of in the last few years has had help this way, or from the Bank of Grandparents, or a lump sum from an inheritance or in one case a hefty private income from the estate of a deceased rich relative.
It seems to be the norm these days as far as I see it.
Isn't this a good tax effective way of disseminating inheritance and potentially reducing the inheritance tax as long as it was gifted 7 years before death.
You may see more and more people who risk crossing the inheritance tax threshold opting to pass on wealth before death.:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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