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  • Rotor
    Rotor Posts: 1,049 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    I don't know why you lot are always moaning about getting banned from HPC. It's clearly a bear website (the clue's in the title - House Price CRASH) populated with bears who want to discuss bearish topics. So why do those with clearly opposite views want to interfere with that and cause trouble, why don't you just let them get on with it?


    because no subject can be properly examined without both sides being presented. It's just bias confirmation which will lead to poor decisions.
    Insulating yourself from other views to your own is always a bad idea wether it is religion, politics or the direction of house prices.
  • bluedrop
    bluedrop Posts: 662 Forumite
    Hi guys, good to hear from you!! bluedrop, could you post the reply, please :) Would be very much appreciated!

    James - strange, huh! One day you can post and the next... no reply from anybody! I was preety peeved about it. That's quite a change, from bear to BTL!

    Looks like I'm banned too. I can't log in....strangely, I don't remember posting anything anti-hpc there...

    Sorry op, can't be of much help :(
    There is more to life than increasing its speed.
  • Sibley
    Sibley Posts: 1,557 Forumite
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    They must be ultra paranoid after the budget....The government has destroyed them.

    We never allowed house prices to drop.

    Prices will rise massive on the back of this latest news.
    18% by the end of 2013.....
    We love Sarah O Grady
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    Sibley wrote: »
    Prices will rise massive on the back of this latest news.
    18% by the end of 2013.....

    Dwayne Dibley..... Always good for a laugh.
  • Today the government finally put the HPC chain gang to the sword. On the back of capital flight out of cash savings accounts into housing and today's deposit help for buyers expect house price rises no we are through the worst of the recession. If you can buy then buy and pay off your own mortgage. If you can't then rent and pay off someone elses mortgage for them. Thems your choices. GAME OVER HPC.
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    This has driven a massive wedge into the forum hpc.co.uk. The Bruce Banners are struggling to regroup, blustering and banging into walls, while their foot soldiers - the priced out youngers, are notably quiet; they know that they will most likely apply for this new scheme whatever they may think about the morality.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 20 March 2013 at 11:28PM
    Sibley wrote: »
    Prices will rise massive on the back of this latest news.
    18% by the end of 2013.....

    If I thought for one moment that this scheme would go through as the government intended, ie, around 200,000 extra 90% + mortgages each year for 3 years......

    Then double digit percentage price rises would be very likely.

    However never underestimate either the incompetence of government, or the ability of the banksters to subvert the will of the state.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • MobileSaver
    MobileSaver Posts: 4,377 Forumite
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    I used to post on HPC but for some reason, about two years ago... every time I logged in it gave me an error message saying I'm not allowed to view the forum. I've sent a couple messages over the years to admin but got NOTHING back - what's up with that?

    If you have a difference of opinion to Barmy Bruce Banner you get banned, they only want posters who will repeat "Ja wohl, mein Führer" several times a day. :)

    Even though most of them are clearly intellectually challenged you do have to feel sorry for both them and their families; they're still real people and they've wasted years of their life hoping upon hope for a crash that never came.
    Every generation blames the one before...
    Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years
  • John_Pierpoint
    John_Pierpoint Posts: 8,401 Forumite
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    edited 21 March 2013 at 10:26AM
    If you have a difference of opinion to Barmy Bruce Banner you get banned, they only want posters who will repeat "Ja wohl, mein Führer" several times a day. :)

    Even though most of them are clearly intellectually challenged you do have to feel sorry for both them and their families; they're still real people and they've wasted years of their life hoping upon hope for a crash that never came.

    .........as the governments committed to crashing the value of the currency instead.
    Interestingly, in sold out, sold off Britain, we still seem to be on the down slope of that long awaited "J" curve.

    Not to worry, the budget figures are saying it will be arriving "next" year, but hardly accelerating exponentially. This forecast brought to you by the government that could not see the "W" shaped trace of a double dip recession and is desperately issuing post dated cheques to avoid a "W + V" shaped "recovery".
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    I had a look over on hpc and they are pretty glum today. There is the usual declarations of emigration by people who probably have neither the languages nor technical skills to do so. There are also people with cash in the bank who refuse to spend it on property out of sheer bloody mindedness, and there are some who will throw in the towel now.

    A few people have said they will take Osborne's loan.
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