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If we vote for Brexit what happens

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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    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 Thatcher
  • Rinoa
    Rinoa Posts: 2,701 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    So we have 150k unelected people deciding our next prime minister :(

    Strictly speaking they are electing the next leader of the Conservative party. Hopefully Leadsom.
    If I don't reply to your post,
    you're probably on my ignore list.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    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.
    I own my house outright and still say it's to early to say what is going to happen.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    The negative equity after buying (borrowing) into a massive bubble that then pops would be awful, yes.
    You've been saying that for years yet plenty of people have bought and paid off all most if not all of thier mortgage since you started.
  • peter_we
    peter_we Posts: 79 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary
    edited 8 July 2016 at 6:45PM
    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 continued
    ukcarper wrote: »
    You 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.
  • danothy
    danothy Posts: 2,200 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    is this system something you actaully support or do you think that all 8,000,000,000 people should be allowed to settle here

    Both .
    If you think of it as 'us' verses 'them', then it's probably your side that are the villains.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    danothy wrote: »
    Both .

    do you think the people of the world would peacefully accept such vast movements of people ?
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    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 journey
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    StevieJ wrote: »
    So we have 150k unelected people deciding our next prime minister :(

    Thankfully a good proportion of them are far sighted visionary folk that understand Britains new global vocation, rather than the backwards looking timid people that think the world ends at Brussles
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    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 robot
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