Barnard Marcus auction yesterday - carnage!

amcluesent

>the Government being basically bankrupt<

We haven't a clue about the tens, maybe hundreds, of ££ billions in liabilities that pension-thief Brown has hidden in off balance-sheet wheezes during the tax'n'bungle years.

What's certain is that Clown was borrowing like mad during the 10 years of the best economic position of any post-war government but didn't spend 1p on fixing the roof while the sun was shining.

Now the the gold has gone, the gas and oil have gone, the manufacturing has gone...Nulabour turned Britain into a giant Ponzi scheme and the music has just stopped.

Long bleak decades of grinding austerity, living hand-to-mouth lie ahead - I fully expect a break down in social order to accompany us tumbling into the economic abyss.

lynzpower

Long bleak decades of grinding austerity, living hand-to-mouth lie ahead - I fully expect a break down in social order to accompany us tumbling into the economic abyss.

Maybe I should book our flights out of here then before the air prices rise even further :beer: I can cash buy a little apartment on the algarve now should I so wish
Many MSErs simply wont need to live a hand-to-mouth existence as many of us have prepared for all this in advance - thanks to Martin & team whos presence has allowed me, and many others like me to ride out the storm that UK plc is facing just now :money:

lostinrates

chrisandanne wrote: »

Society will change and morph.....it may be that sons or daughters stay in the family home with their partners and children and expense is shared that way...or parents move into their childrens small house and children take over the large house........I do a lot of family history and this is how it used to be.

We will see...there are a lot of changes on the horizon.

night night A x

In all seriousness, its not just I in our social circle who has returned to live with my family. The only people within our perr group in our social cicle who have bought are an actor with film proceeds, people who have been beneficiaries of wills in there family (a few of those) and [STRIKE]two[/STRIKE] three people their fathers could afford to buy them a house too. in fact, for multiple children. But for by far the majority of us thats not an option

Not many of the ones who've stayed at home or moved back home are with permanant partners or married though.

MissMoneypenny

chrisandanne wrote: »

There is an icon that says we have firefox yes....but when I go to property bee it sugests I do things which I don't understand or have the courage to try in case I b*gger up this machine.....I will ask my husband to install it..though I think I have already asked...perhaps twice....but lets face it that's nothing. A x

Before you install a new programme, you can create a system restore point, which will enable you to take the system back to the point before you installed the programme if needs be. Press Start/ then All Programs/then Accessories/ then System Tools/then System Resore.

You can read more about safe computing on The Open University website:-
http://safecomputing.open.ac.uk/ It's free:D

Pobby

dhassen wrote: »

I want to buy one of the houses that didn't sell lol (in theory)...... does anyone have an idea how I'd do this? Ring them I guess..... anyone done this before?

And yes I'm serious!

btw what's structural movement? lol

[waits for abuse]

Yes it`s quite normal to talk to the auction house if a proprty fails to make it`s reserve. Structural movement? Hmmmmmmmm. Check that out before doing anything.

greyskittles

I'm watching the current auction online... I think almost every single property has gone unsold :eek:

snoopy78

greyskittles wrote: »

I'm watching the current auction online... I think almost every single property has gone unsold :eek:

What area does the auction cover, my Brother was looking at a house in Surbiton that was going to auction today.

zappahey

greyskittles wrote: »

I'm watching the current auction online... I think almost every single property has gone unsold :eek:

Oh, you rascal, I seem to have found something new to distract me from work.

snoopy78

zappahey wrote: »

Oh, you rascal, I seem to have found something new to distract me from work.

Those that can watch it can you let me know what happens to Lot 234, as my brother was interested in the place but did not have his finances ready in time. Although I told him I really did not think it is worth anything near the guide price after seeing the mess it's in.

zappahey

snoopy78 wrote: »

Those that can watch it can you let me know what happens to Lot 234,

I'll see what I can do but it's only at lot 114 just now and I'm an hour ahead of UK so might not catch it before I need to leave.