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If we vote for Brexit what happens
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So we have 150k unelected people deciding our next prime minister'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
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iantojones40 wrote: »I'd have to disagree, considering that as you rightly say, this is supposed to be a money saving forum I've never encountered another forum like it where there are so many contributers urging people to over extend themselves and get into as much mortgage debt as they can possibly obtain, the result being there are now plenty of people who appear to be extremely concerned about even a very modest fall in house prices or equally modest rise in IR's due to the fact that they've stretched their borrowing to the absolute limit and were relying on hpi and zirp forever.0
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Crashy_Time wrote: »The negative equity after buying (borrowing) into a massive bubble that then pops would be awful, yes.0
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always_sunny wrote: »I wouldn't say that Battersea (1/2 mile around you) is (or was) in any shape or form affordable. That bubble was meant to pop brexit or not. £500k+ for a 1 bedder? Is there any reduction on 'affordable' flats? Is there even a 1 bed for less than £250k?
£350k minimum for a 1 bed, in a poor location (main road).
The point I was trying to make was that finance people are going to form the main market here and they are running scared. Affordability is entirely relative and if Brixet hadn't happened, the party would have continuedYou can't just up sticks and move and the negotiations haven't started yet.
They may have to and first mover advantage may make it happen soon er rather than later.0 -
Establishment inertia.
Blair relied on establishment inertia to take us to war. As with the Leave campaign, it was outsiders and people at street level that could see the establishment narrative was floored. The stop the war coalition was dismissed by the establishment media complex, just as Brexit was
I see Sajid is over in India for trade talks and I fully expect a rapid show case deal being done with a population double that of the EUs and in rapid growth
The new global facing tiger Britain is a reality, change is part and parcel of innovation and the Human journey0 -
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Ian Hislop came accross as very ill informed and not remotely aware of the huge opportunity before us. Just another smug sanctimonious commentator, not someone that would change the world for the better
His recieved wisdom on QT last night was like listening to a pre programmed rather tired old robot0
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