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Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
Why do the Mail and the Express love posting headlines like "Cliff Richard unrecognisable compared to 1958"? 😊Because it gets clicks and it's effectively zero cost to automate the content?
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Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
Yay!Bad news for Chris Spargo
Tom Scott is back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3lSKgz4q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHv6owsCvw&t=61s
kle4
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Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
So, one point, why would the EU want us back ?Contributions.
We were hardly model members last time.
Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
It was an endowment mortgage which meant that the interest was paid but the endowment element if it didn't cover the figure borrowed meant the debt would increase, so to cover that the interest payment was raised. So this might have been mid rather than early 90s. I eventually replaced it with a NatWest repayment mortgage and I believe I claimed money back under a mis-selling compensation package.Are you sure about that ?I bought that house in Whitchurch in Cardiff as a doer upper in 1991 for £62,000. Houses in that road were going for around £90K. I sold it in 2000 for £135K. However when the mortgage rate starts at a little over 10% in 1991 hitting the dizzy heights of 18% a few years later was no joke.18% of what, though?Circa 1995 would have coincided with my 18% Bradford and Bingley mortgage rate...Oh to have been in a position to buy a house in 1995...Not sure about your date range, although the 1992 to 1997 Tory Government produced some comedy gold.1989 to 2001 was the really rosy time imo.My guess is that 75% of the movement in public opinion on Brexit is nostalgia for the time before Trump, Covid and Ukraine.Nostalgia for an imaginary period before Brexit.
The 2006-2016 period wasn't the best in the UK - bank crashes, high unemployment, uncontrolled immigration and then public spending restrictions.
You'd have to go back to between 1995 and 2005 for a period when things seemed good and the future rosy.
Sadly I was twelve.
I have a friend who bought a house in Cambridge for 550k last year. Was sold in 1995 for 35k. Renovated, but no loft conversion or floor space extension.
Interest rates peaked in October 1989 and were steadily falling throughout 1991 and 1992 (bar the one day wonder of Black Wednesday) and haven't been above 10% since September 1991:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/Bank-Rate.asp
Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
Judged by his stated goals of getting Britain to join the Euro and getting the Labour party to love Peter Mandelson, he was a complete flop.The process had been going for years before Blair was in government.Peace in Northern Island.48 quarters of successive growthThere was never a better time to be PM than what Blair had.The Blair Years...My guess is that 75% of the movement in public opinion on Brexit is nostalgia for the time before Trump, Covid and Ukraine.Nostalgia for an imaginary period before Brexit.
The 2006-2016 period wasn't the best in the UK - bank crashes, high unemployment, uncontrolled immigration and then public spending restrictions.
You'd have to go back to between 1995 and 2005 for a period when things seemed good and the future rosy.
And what did he achieve during it ?
What did Blair initiate as PM ?
Student tuition fees
Unrestricted immigration
Devolution
Anything else ?
Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
UmmmmmmmMorons gonna moron, I guess.
*FCC BANS IMPORTS OF ALL FOREIGN-MADE CONSUMER-GRADE ROUTERS
https://bsky.app/profile/peark.es/post/3mhqxkgtmv22e
Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
Medicated growth by stoking a credit bubble and allowing mass immigration.48 quarters of successive growthThere was never a better time to be PM than what Blair had.The Blair Years...My guess is that 75% of the movement in public opinion on Brexit is nostalgia for the time before Trump, Covid and Ukraine.Nostalgia for an imaginary period before Brexit.
The 2006-2016 period wasn't the best in the UK - bank crashes, high unemployment, uncontrolled immigration and then public spending restrictions.
You'd have to go back to between 1995 and 2005 for a period when things seemed good and the future rosy.
And what did he achieve during it ?
Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
A significant problem is that Trump has started a war which requires accepting some casualties without being willing to accept any casualties.Shashank JoshiThis really might end up taking the record for the dumbest war ever, against some fierce competition.
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The war aim is now re-opening a strait that would not have been closed were it not for the war itself.
https://x.com/shashj/status/2036175213440774284
Its also clear that Trump doesn't have the patience for a sustained war.
Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
FWIW, here's a WAPo guest column from oncologist Mikkael Sekeres on envronmental risks for cancer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/03/23/environmental-cancer-risks-oncologist/
Dr. Sekeres mentions radon, asbestos, microplastics, and air pollution. Again for what it is worth, he is undecided about the risks from microplastics.
Important point: Often these risks are additive, so, for example, you really don't want to live in a house with high levels of radon, breath polluted air -- and smoke.
(Two leaders illustrate what governments should do, and should not do, on air pollution, respectively, GHWB and Angela Merkel.)
Dr. Sekeres mentions radon, asbestos, microplastics, and air pollution. Again for what it is worth, he is undecided about the risks from microplastics.
Important point: Often these risks are additive, so, for example, you really don't want to live in a house with high levels of radon, breath polluted air -- and smoke.
(Two leaders illustrate what governments should do, and should not do, on air pollution, respectively, GHWB and Angela Merkel.)
Re: Rachel Reeves & Sir Sadiq Khan speak for the nation – politicalbetting.com
It was an endowment mortgage, see earlier post and the endowment element fell behind the value borrowed, so in order to keep up the repayments increased. So rather than just the interest and the endowment a top up figure to cover the anticipated shortfall was added to the monthly repayment.In 1990 you would have been but was that an endowment mortgage that you had ? I thought interest only mortgages only appeared in the 2000s.I might have my dates wrong but I was certainly paying circa 18% on an interest only mortgage in the 1990s.Are you sure about that ?I bought that house in Whitchurch in Cardiff as a doer upper in 1991 for £62,000. Houses in that road were going for around £90K. I sold it in 2000 for £135K. However when the mortgage rate starts at a little over 10% in 1991 hitting the dizzy heights of 18% a few years later was no joke.18% of what, though?Circa 1995 would have coincided with my 18% Bradford and Bingley mortgage rate...Oh to have been in a position to buy a house in 1995...Not sure about your date range, although the 1992 to 1997 Tory Government produced some comedy gold.1989 to 2001 was the really rosy time imo.My guess is that 75% of the movement in public opinion on Brexit is nostalgia for the time before Trump, Covid and Ukraine.Nostalgia for an imaginary period before Brexit.
The 2006-2016 period wasn't the best in the UK - bank crashes, high unemployment, uncontrolled immigration and then public spending restrictions.
You'd have to go back to between 1995 and 2005 for a period when things seemed good and the future rosy.
Sadly I was twelve.
I have a friend who bought a house in Cambridge for 550k last year. Was sold in 1995 for 35k. Renovated, but no loft conversion or floor space extension.
Interest rates peaked in October 1989 and were steadily falling throughout 1991 and 1992 (bar the one day wonder of Black Wednesday) and haven't been above 10% since September 1991:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/Bank-Rate.asp