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Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apologies for stating the obvious, but surely we > elect the party, not the PM... Technically yes, but when voting for a political party it's generally assumed that should that party win then the leader of that party will be the next PM. Has there ever been a precedent when this hasn't happened? And speaking of precedents, I think people are getting a bit bogged down with this 'unelected PM precedent' business. Surely it's the context that matters. When Brown took over from Blair, Labour chugged along as before. Brown didn't suddenly veer off on a completely different economic course. They basically kept to the mandate they had been elected on. That's not the case at all with Brexit. IMO, as it's such a big game changer, it needs to be part of an election winning manifesto, and thereby have a mandate. I don't care if a general election means a few months of uncertainty in the stock exchanges, Brexit is a decision that will affect future generations, and could take generations to reverse if it all goes belly up...

Don't get too carried away Jah, Memphis was fairly prolific in the Dutch league...but then again, you haven't got LvG as a manager

Could it be that the drop in prices is due to the state of the French economy? And as Jah says, that's good news for some...

It looks like it was knocked up overnight by a 2nd year Graphic Design student on a summer placement^ Perhaps there's a hidden message...her signature reads more like Aarrgghh! than Angela :) *Of course I'm referring to the logo not Ms Eagle...

England don't deserve a top class manager. Can you imagine Guardiola going to Sunderland? That's about the equivalent level England are at the moment. Bag of shite...

Jah, there's a school of thought that says that's exactly what makes him the ideal England manager. England have won fook all too...

Well he didn't last long, so fingers crossed...

No one predicted a Portugal win, so as you were... See you all again in a few weeks time!...

So we'll have a PM that hasn't been elected either by the Tory membership or the country as a whole. Brilliant!...

Does that mean May gets elected unopposed, or does Gove step up?...

Maybe RPC looks very Sarf London, we're not welcome oop north...

Anyone else spotted the correlation between Brexit voters and ghoulie believers...just saying like :)

I always thought his initial 3 year contract was too light considering his success at Dortmund. Yes, the average modern manager doesn't hang around for long, but despite this a club has got to have faith in it's manager long term, have a vision/plan etc..

It's certainly possible Loz. The Lib Dems came about from the old Liberals and the SDP, who in turn were disgruntled Labour MPs concerned about Labour lurching to the far left under Michael Foot and the influence of Militant Tendency (Corbyn/Foot, Militant/Momentum, talk about history repeating itself!), and who also attracted Tories not happy with Thatcher, Tebbit et al...

Semi-Finals points... Semi-Finals table...

DaveR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The point of that is that no landlord can just put > up the rent to whatever they want - someone has to > be willing to pay it. I've seen arguments that > BTL landlords are more likely than corporates to > push rents up because their margins are tighter, > but I'm not aware of any evidence on that. My personal experience of renting from both a private and corporate landlord is that the private landlord never put the rent up over the 3 years I rented from him, whereas a corporate landlord did, every year without fail. The private landlord lived above the flat I rented, and I got on well with him, and he told me it wasn't in his best interest to keep putting the rent up as it usually meant the tenant would become disgruntled and leave, and the associated costs and hassle of a rental void usually outweighed any extra rental income. Instead he waited until the tenant left and then put the rent up to the current market value for the next tenant, and so on. He was more interested in the long term capital gain rather than short term rental profit. And let's not forget as well as dodgy landlords, there are just as many, if not more, dodgy tenants about. You only have to watch one of those 'Bailiff' type programmes to see what a total shit some tenants can be. It can take months and a lot of money for a landlord to regain possession of their property...

Looking forward to tonight's match. Think it will be a high scoring game, 3-2 to France...Allez Les Bleus!

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SLad Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The free ride I'm talking about is having the > > equity in my property paid off for me without > my > > paying tax on the money I make on the > enterprise. > > What Jeremy said - you only get relief on interest > costs, not equity pay downs. I'm surprised, given > your level on knowledge on this subject, you don't > know this. For this reason as well as the general low yields, I suspect most BTL's are taken on an interest-only basis, so the whole 'getting your mortgage paid off by tenants' mantra simply isn't true. Instead it's the capital appreciation of the property that most landlords are looking for, and that has always been subject to CGT...

Rook Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Id also argue that MOST expats living in the EU > are actually paid in the home currency of EUR. For expats workers in the EU maybe, but what about all the expat pensioners living in the EU? I know of a few who all get paid a UK pension which is then transferred into Euros...

It is if you live in Norfolk...;-)

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well a lot of it yes, but not the lack of planning > for the aftermath, which is arguably the biggest > issue of all. That rings a bell! :)...

titch juicy 1, TheCat 0...

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gawd, when does the bloody teachers' strike end? :))

Boris Johnson can be Foggy...like his politics

I dunno, I think Jeremy Corbyn would make a good Compo...