General Chat

I don't know I go away from the boards for a few hours and come back and my post has disappeared ??!!! Was it rr'd and removed in a few hours ?? Didn't think it was offensive......oh well....

Caroline, I think he already is the sad old guy sitting in the corner nursing his pint and moaning.

Yeah I'm not going to lose any sleep over it sometimes the truth hurts. Right off to live life rather than sit on here all day, all the time with my eyes on that high pedestal........

No, he is the sad old git who spends hours on Google looking up what he wants to look clever about this time.

Doesn't take "hours" to Google. Unless you're doing it wrong lol.

:-D :-D :-D :-D

I saw a guy when I was on holiday recently, wearing a T-shirt which read
"F*** Google - just ask me"

I think we should club together and buy one :-D

Thanks Ann, make it a 'large' please :-)

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

well - those full of doom and gloom over the future since Friday : it was all the fault of the Brexit lot - strange the FTS is higher already.

Apparently one pundit said yesterday that if interest falls any more pensioners will suffer. What interest?????? I can recall in early eighties interest rates on mortgages of 14-15% but those interest rates encouraged savers.

" I can recall in early eighties interest rates on mortgages of 14-15% but those interest rates encouraged savers."

so can I, I also recall the number of repossessions.

Rose - in recent years - apparently repossessions are higher than ever.

Yes Chris, and it's down to many things, very few of which have to do with being in or out of the EU. I was just pointing out as you mentioned the '80s there were losers then also. Always it is those who have least chance of weathering out the uncertainties, be it a 'normal' recession or a political upheaval, who suffer most.

it has been easy to blame the EU for things that actually are the fault of successive governments. At some point in the near future that option will be gone.

For whatever govt' is in power it will be a case of "The buck stops here".

Just come to close down. My last post seemed a trifle hard hearted. It is always sad when anyone loses their home, more so if it has been brought about through redundancy or ill health.

The sad thing is that I believe, repossession does not end there, if there is a debt left owing after sale of home, the dispossessed are held responsible.

Also if they sell their home hoping to clear mortgage to some extent - they are deemed to have deliberately made themselves homeless. So Housing Associations and Councils do not want to know.

Dammed if you do and dammed if you don't.

One thing is sure that down through the centuries and various governments - the rich will get richer and the poor get poorer - in between they are hanging by their teeth.

If the referendum was a national vote decided by a simple majority, why were the results published on a constituency basis?
Just a though !

I think that was because it was the way they were counted.

It is so unusual to have a referendum of that type carried out that there has never been another system devised for counting the votes.

However they were counted, they could still have just published the overall result.

That would have avoided all this conflict about Scotland, Northern Ireland, Liverpool and London voting Remain and virtually everywhere else voting Out.

It wouldn't have made good television.

Hope we survive in the current atmosphere of economic uncertainty & political doubt.

A race to the bottom is not a promising prospect.

Of those in the 18-24 years age group, only 34% bothered to vote. How do they know? Surely, as we were given a piece of paper on which to put our "X", which had no way of identifying the voter, there was no way of knowing who's was who's.
As for interest rates, my mortgage is fixed at .45% above base. If it goes any lower they will have to pay me!