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I think he's jsut been found out as second rate... he's obviously not a team player and he needs support now but he has made too many enemies, at the same time he's not actually a strong leader so you end up with vacillation or the awful embarrassing "I feel your pain and will lead you through it" rhetori which is actually just pathetic, I'm not sure if he's even the intellectual he's made out to be, there's certainly no evidence of substance when he opens his mouth and he certainly has no 'vision' at all...I honestly think he's way out of his depth and promoted beyond his ability, His chancellership wasn't that great, his arrogance led him to bang sell most of our gold reserve at the bottom of the market against expert opinion, his boastful No more boom and bust makes his please that it's global problems very hollow...I think he's as bad as that idiot Major was,,,he should go the useless buffoon

LOl at the optimism on here...we are just at the begginning of a severe drop...I reckon, in real terms, it will be about 2012/13 before prices reach the height of last year again

Picnics are hideous, overated, hugely disapointing affairs - uncomfortable, warm drinks, curled sandwiches, yugh.....God (rightly) put wasps on this earth to disuade man from these horrendus attempts at eating outdoors

Kirsty's a hideous old bag whose dad was something high up in Thames TV or something like that....whereas Sarah Beeney is a goddess who can come and have a good poke round my basement anyday

any theories on the McCanns Muffintop? *walks away whistling hands in pockets

VBC=PC GONE MAD

I lived in Spain - on the Costa de Crime (for work...*taps nose) for a year and believe me, the place is packed with brits who are desperately trying to convince you 'it's best thing i've ever done moving out here' in a very unconvincing way...you even get bored of the good weather

What's irrational about disliking the lazy, frog eating, garlic munching, tossers?

I urinated outside Fabric in Smithfield and got beaten up by a bouncer

"maybe it because I'm a Londoners that I love London so, maybe its because I'm a Londoner that I think of her wherever I go" etc The country's for incest and Cirhossis - unless you want them, avoid

Sabotaging cars and a thing against plants....has to be a SeanMac/Jrussel dual effort....;-)

Flashman of course

er, I'd use your sister as the other two bits of advice aren't any good for anyone with no credit history in the UK

I couldn't be arsed to explain that the credit crunch is largely about banks inability to lend much especially to first time buyers yet again...so ijust cut and pasted this from the BBC Tough times for first-time buyers The availability of mortgages will remain subdued, lenders say A first-time buyer couple on low incomes must save a year's worth of their take-home pay to buy their first home, say surveyors. A couple in the bottom quarter of earners in the UK needs ?27,738 to pay the up-front fees, says the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Affordability has improved for those able to get onto the housing ladder, the group says. But the credit crunch has made it more difficult to climb onto the first rung. "Access to the housing market has deteriorated as the credit crunch has taken hold of the mortgage lender sector," said Rics' senior economist David Stubbs. "With mortgage approvals declining, the picture does not look like improving in the latter part of 2008 and first-time buyers will find their path to home ownership increasingly blocked."

*twitches curtain

last time I went to an event in Brockwell Park it was the "free the weed" march, which I though was very much a piece of stoners self indulgence as there's far more important thigs to march about, however I did get surprisingly out of my head on some natural high 'legal ecstacy' which surprised me....anyway, I divert...will there be a 'legal high' tent at said event anyone?

I'm not that keen on my neighbour's haircut...can i do something similar?

although they're not ugly, I'm not a big fan of Spanish women (and i lived there for a year)....they, of course, think I'm a gorgeous piece of english crumpet

I dunno, but the irish are welsh who could swim

*twitches curtain

but to return to the bad news 1) yes, very true, but also many will lose theirs altogether so not quite as spiffing as it sounds 2)Er, if your property was above the inheritance tax threshold and then falls in value below it, you've got less than you had to leave them than before NO GAIN and probably a loss 3)Unless you happen to work in property,,,,,, 4)Property prices aren't indexed into RPI (inflation)...so it won't fall if they do, plus mortgage payments on overinflated houses won't go down just because their value falls (see negative equity) Finally, there's a CREDIT CRUNCH...lenders aren't lending to anyone unless they have significant savings for a deposit and a good track record in servicing their debts (HINT...this is generally not First Time buyers)

Thousands of Estate Agents on the dole

Very good (now i know) until then worrying

macroban, I know we've had this before but there was a recession in 1991/92.........you, almost uniquely, don't seem to accept that!

Louisana..you show great imagination with the topic but piss poor choice with effectively a universal charger when the world of imaginery appliances was your oyster..you are an enigma wrapped up in a...etc