If we vote for Brexit what happens

Kohoutek

Conrad wrote: »

About 4% of UK firms trade into the EU. As with Samsung or Apple they will conform to trading standards, why on earth you want the entire UK to be subject to EU rules and, ahem, leadership is quite beyond me

Not sure what you are on about. If the UK adopts EU financial regulation, it doesn't mean 'the entire UK' is subject to it, only financial firms. If it adopts EU drug safety regulation, then only pharmaceutical firms are subject to it, not 'the entire UK'.

The kind of EU law that you could say affects the entire UK is something like employment rights. Are you against paid holiday? That's an EU law right (before it was only at employers' discretion).

Crashy_Time

mubeye wrote: »

Im very much on the fence on this one, but just curious, why do crashers associate lower sales volume with falling prices?

Was there a collapse in sale volumes prior to the 2009 crash?

I thought in the demand and supply equation, if supply goes down, then prices go up? So why is a fall in sales volume considered to mean lower prices? I don't get it.

"Sales volume" and "Supply" are two different things, a fall in sales volume can mean that there is no or low demand at current asking prices.

iantojones40

Harper123 wrote: »

I bought my first home 3 years ago. Sold it earlier this year for a substantial profit and now am in the process of buying my new home which I absolutely love with a mortgage that is A LOT less than my original one. Thanks to that purchase 3 years ago my life is good and I'm financially comfortable. Thank god I didn't take any notice of people on here that told me a crash was about to happen back then :beer:

Your tale of smugness and joy makes very little sense unless you either-

-Got VERY lucky and bought your first house for well below market value
-Are substantially downsizing
-Moving to a different area where prices/hpi aren't as 'fantastic' as your current location

glasgowdan

iantojones40 wrote: »

Your tale of smugness and joy makes very little sense unless you either-

-Got VERY lucky and bought your first house for well below market value
-Are substantially downsizing
-Moving to a different area where prices/hpi aren't as 'fantastic' as your current location

Your post makes no sense. Do you think that no houses have genuinely had a significant price increase in the last 3 years? Because if you do then you're so wrong I feel like an idiot for even responding.

gfplux

Conrad wrote: »

Home Counties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_counties

That's like me saying I live in Europe.
Can't you be more specific?

MobileSaver

Crashy_Time wrote: »

So people are not unable/unwilling to sell, but there is a shortage of properties coming on to the market, is that what you are saying?

Yes, you got it in one!

iantojones40 wrote: »

-Got VERY lucky and bought your first house for well below market value

Were you not aware that average house prices have increased by 8%, 7% and 5% over the last three years? Almost everyone who bought 3 years ago would be able to sell today for a profit. I know that's not what the HPC crowd want to hear but it is what it is...

gfplux

Kohoutek wrote: »

Not sure what you are on about. If the UK adopts EU financial regulation, it doesn't mean 'the entire UK' is subject to it, only financial firms. If it adopts EU drug safety regulation, then only pharmaceutical firms are subject to it, not 'the entire UK'.

The kind of EU law that you could say affects the entire UK is something like employment rights. Are you against paid holiday? That's an EU law right (before it was only at employers' discretion).

If After we leave the EU they change the required legal spec of say carpet cleaners, if Britain wants to sell carpet cleaners to the EU the product will have to comply with EU law.
British manufacturers will still be able to sell the "old" type of carpet cleaners to British Customers and the rest of the world.
One of the "Benefits" of Brexit!

Harper123

iantojones40 wrote: »

Your tale of smugness and joy makes very little sense unless you either-

-Got VERY lucky and bought your first house for well below market value
-Are substantially downsizing
-Moving to a different area where prices/hpi aren't as 'fantastic' as your current location

I didnt buy below market value, in fact mine was the most expensive that had sold in the cul de sac at the time. I bought in an area of Hertfordshire that was (is) lovely but still priced relatively cheaply in 2013, rather than going for one of the areas a bit closer to London that were already getting expensive.

I've now done exactly the same and chosen an area that I love but again that prices haven't risen as fast as the area I left.

I've not downsized, in fact my new house is bigger. If slightly different.

Maybe there was an element of luck in that there was no way I could have said prices would 100% go up in the area I originally bought. But there was also 3 years of research and watching the market. In the same way 3 years of research and watching the market have gone into buying this one.

Houses are massive purchases. I don't even buy a pair of shoes without checking online if I can find them cheaper online first :rotfl:

But most importantly both times I have looked for somewhere that was first and foremost a home that I would be happy in regardless.

And in spite of the advice from some people on this forum, 2013 was an excellent time to buy in a lot of areas Hertfordshire :beer:

Kohoutek

Looks like the leavers' argument that the EU needs us for our military was rubbish...

https://www.ft.com/content/36f47240-7c0e-11e6-ae24-f193b105145e

Britain’s armed forces cannot defend the UK against a serious military attack and have lost much of their ability to fight conventional wars, the recently retired head of the country’s Joint Forces Command has warned.

General Sir Richard Barrons, who stepped down in April as one of the country’s four service chiefs, has said a series of “profoundly difficult” strategic challenges are being sidestepped as Whitehall focuses on “skinning” budgets and delivering costly but increasingly redundant big-ticket military projects.

His 10-page, private memorandum to Michael Fallon, defence minister, is the most forthright criticism of defence policy from the UK’s senior military leadership to have emerged publicly in years. It came just months after the last spending review handed the Ministry of Defence a significant funding boost despite widespread cuts to other departments.

CLAPTON

gfplux wrote: »

If After we leave the EU they change the required legal spec of say carpet cleaners, if Britain wants to sell carpet cleaners to the EU the product will have to comply with EU law.
British manufacturers will still be able to sell the "old" type of carpet cleaners to British Customers and the rest of the world.
One of the "Benefits" of Brexit!

indeed

so the UK will have a wider range of products to sell than if we stayed in the EU.
how is that not a benefit to both the Uk and the rest of the world