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[utrickytrees] 31/3/2024 12:52

Precisely Scruff. Farage had my utmost respect when he was a frontline swashbuckling modern day Arthur Wellesley. He's lacking a bit of strategic intent for me. He's basically just a commentator these days.

[scruff1] 31/3/2024 12:51

GNR
Every bloke today here in Dubai has wished me a happy Easter. Not a hamas or Palestinian slogan in sight
Soon be back in the west -is it still?

[pierre oreilly] 31/3/2024 12:37

Blatant fees, obvious fees, hidden fees, rip off fees, fees they don't tell you about, etc etc. It's why banks are such a great investment.

[gotnorolex] 31/3/2024 11:58

First off HAPPY EASTER!
How the Swiss see us.....My son with his young family and in-laws in a Geneva Hotel enroute to Val d'Isere, was asked "what the heck" he was doing in dull Switzerland when they could be back in Hyde Park, walking amongst the daffodils!

[aceuk] 31/3/2024 11:33

I remember the days when you went to the building society or bank, told the nice young lady you wanted to set up home and had found a house you wanted, signed a form and walked away with a 25 year mortgage.

Pretty sure that all these cheap modern short-term fixes are not cheap.

[diku] 31/3/2024 09:56

And the lender gives you choice...either you pay the product fee as one off payment upfront or you bung that fee in your mortgage...which mean you pay fees over fee...

[hardup1] 31/3/2024 09:47

"Higher rate no product fees...or lower rate high product fee...disguise way to get money out of borrower..."
And the moral of that is........ALWAYS READ THE SMALL PRINT! Same as with car finance commissions!

[diku] 31/3/2024 09:13

Higher rate no product fees...or lower rate high product fee...disguise way to get money out of borrower...



Buyers will need to fix for five years at a rate of 5.99 per cent, which is higher than most rates on the market at present. However, it has no product fee.

[xxxxxy] 31/3/2024 08:57

Nigel Farage@Nigel_FarageWishing @10DowningStreeta very Happy Easter. Instead of sending a card, I thought I'd send you this video from Dover today instead.0:1712:25 pm · 30 Mar 2024·

[mr.elbee] 31/3/2024 08:28

dead on scruff

[senden11] 30/3/2024 18:47

Thank you, mr.elbee, for that honest and personal account based on experience in historical context. A scary conclusion, to be sure, but entirely reasonable in the current socio-political circumstances.

It's actually set me thinking about viable escape routes for the family, though so many aspects to consider outside of the US/Australia avenue: learning a new language/culture, academic environment for the kids, transferability of job/professional skills, health-care provision, tax implications for UK assets etc, etc. And no, despite all of the attractions cited by scruff, Dubai does not appeal.

Glass-half-full type as I try to be - some may say naive - I am still hopeful that the current widespread dissatisfaction among the decent, fair-minded GB folk may build momentum behind a galvanising, charismatic force (not necessarily Farage, but I don't see a queue of other suitable candidates)and restore some balance with patriotic common sense in this country. Of course, we need somebody to publicly throw their hat into the ring for that first.

I'll run your exodus idea past the kids over dinner and see how it goes down! Meanwhile, good rest of weekend all!

[jl5006] 30/3/2024 18:35

Senden
Thanks to tbliar we are without anything.
He will deny this - cos PFI was a great idea : as was Iraq war : as was oneeyeds Gold sell off.
There is no body to serve us.

[mr.elbee] 30/3/2024 17:34

senden ,thanks for your interest.. I dont have original ideas I just copy what I think are the best.
The next ten years will be a repeat of the seventies except there will be no Margaret Thatcher at the end to rescue us.

Things were so bad in the seventies I got a job in Singapore and would have stayed there but for the climate .Couldnt get employed when I came back despite two proper Master's degrees in economics, so retrained again[again again again]. Loads of people in the late seventies were bailing out because of the Labour government that could not control the unions. same as the tories now.. It will be the same again...Labour will last one term and then be replaced by a complete useless hotch potch of parties that will spend the next 20 years arguing amongst themselves...as they do forever in Europe.

All the quality people have left already . In the early seventies when socialist Heath came in all the money left immediately ... the rock stars the film stars the fund managers [marginal tax rate of over 90%] all went abroad .When Maggie cut taxes in the early eighties they all came back" for their children's education"
ha bloody ha They didnt want to admit that their virtue socialism had got them in a right state.

If I was your age now I would seriously plan a way out.

Russia has a very high standard of living in PPP terms I believe so does Hungary



There will be pushback against Starmer but the UK is completely finished ........ there will be no white knight riding to the rescue this time and she only got 12 years before the Deep State wets overturned all her policies .
No it's all over . Get out while you still can get a UK passport.

[scruff1] 30/3/2024 16:35

No one currently. Its a massive job now we have sunk so low. Not sure its even possible. Farage possibly the only one with the charisma and the way he stuck with it in Brussels and the Nat West is encouraging

[senden11] 30/3/2024 15:29

Can't disagree with any of that, scruff, and much of what you post, but who do you see as being able to grasp the nettle and restore some sanity here?

[senden11] 30/3/2024 13:43

I hear you, mr.elbee, but no need to shout ;-) So, who do you think is a viable, political contender to truly stand up for Britishness and to restore some kind of fair-play for the indigenous population on this fair island?