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  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    AndyGuil wrote: »
    They are. So one for Yes and one for No will do. My wellies can't cope, I will need waders at this rate!
    They are not, we have multiple interest rate threads alone
    Let alone Halifax, Nationwide, Land Registry etc posts on house prices
    These are examples of same topics, different sources threads.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • danothy
    danothy Posts: 2,200 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    They are different topics.
    Should there just be one thread for: -

    House Prices
    Interest Rates
    Government Support Schemes
    etc

    I get the impression that the incessance with which the topic of independence is brought up is making people feel that there should be at most one, and ideally fewer than one thread about it.
    If you think of it as 'us' verses 'them', then it's probably your side that are the villains.
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    danothy wrote: »
    I get the impression that the incessance with which the topic of independence is brought up is making people feel that there should be at most one, and ideally fewer than one thread about it.

    One wonders why so many people are opposed to discussing an important decision which will be made in three months time.

    I personally don;t agree with being ignorant or stick my head in the sand philosophy.

    I politely ask those not wishing to be involved in the discussion points to not respond to the threads and they will take there natural place on the pecking board of this forum.

    If there is apathy to discuss the points, then the thread will fall off the front page.

    14 posts and not one has contributed to the points raised "taxation, migration, energy policy and exports."
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • danothy
    danothy Posts: 2,200 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    One wonders why so many people are opposed to discussing an important decision which will be made in three months time.

    It is entirely possible that there is nothing new to discus. Sometimes you just have to accept that the bus is not going where you want it to and you should stop holding up the other passengers.
    I personally don;t agree with being ignorant or stick my head in the sand philosophy.

    The juxtaposition of what people say and what people do.
    I politely ask those not wishing to be involved in the discussion points to not respond to the threads and they will take there natural place on the pecking board of this forum.

    This would not solve the problem of incessance with regard to the topic being brought up anew.
    If there is apathy to discuss the points, then the thread will fall off the front page.

    Only to be replaced?
    If you think of it as 'us' verses 'them', then it's probably your side that are the villains.
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    One wonders why so many people are opposed to discussing an important decision which will be made in three months time.

    I personally don;t agree with being ignorant or stick my head in the sand philosophy.

    I politely ask those not wishing to be involved in the discussion points to not respond to the threads and they will take there natural place on the pecking board of this forum.

    If there is apathy to discuss the points, then the thread will fall off the front page.

    14 posts and not one has contributed to the points raised "taxation, migration, energy policy and exports."

    You arent really debating anything though are you? You are mostly posting views based on data that most of the rest of us disagree with because it's either not robust, contradicted by more reliable sources, or whimsical.

    Then when we highlight your shonky data you tell us we are wrong and create a new thread based on something else.

    Its starting to seem a but futile.

    But then I guess you can say the same things about my boomers threads and I have no intention of stopping those so knock yourself out.
  • Aberdeenangarse
    Aberdeenangarse Posts: 1,262 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I personally don;t agree with being ignorant or stick my head in the sand philosophy.

    Well it's obvious to most here that you've adopted the 'ostrich position' by spamming this board with numerous threads.
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    danothy wrote: »
    It is entirely possible that there is nothing new to discus. Sometimes you just have to accept that the bus is not going where you want it to and you should stop holding up the other passengers.



    The juxtaposition of what people say and what people do.



    This would not solve the problem of incessance with regard to the topic being brought up anew.



    Only to be replaced?

    Whilst I understand the possition you are portraying, this could be replicated over a number of other topics which suffesr from a "groundhog day" syndrome.

    How many threads have been started about interest rate rises for example.

    Far more and far repeated than my 3 or 4 posts on Independence
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Well it's obvious to most here that you've adopted the 'ostrich position' by spamming this board with numerous threads.

    Could the same be said about Interest Rate Rises or House Price Affordability or HPI.

    This is a debate board guys, please feel free to debate (or not)
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • danothy
    danothy Posts: 2,200 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Whilst I understand the possition you are portraying, this could be replicated over a number of other topics which suffesr from a "groundhog day" syndrome.

    How many threads have been started about interest rate rises for example.

    Far more and far repeated than my 3 or 4 posts on Independence
    Could the same be said about Interest Rate Rises or House Price Affordability or HPI.

    This is a debate board guys, please feel free to debate (or not)

    Other instances of incessance on this board are called out in due course. It's textbook deflection on your part to try to turn attention to them in order to try to distract from or justify your own wrong doing.
    If you think of it as 'us' verses 'them', then it's probably your side that are the villains.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    The good news is that in 92 days we can stop caring !!!
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
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