I genuinely don't think the idea will fly - hence the fact that Labour aren't already weaponizing it against the Government. Even political expediency must give way to mathematics: propping up homeow… (View Post)

In the short term no, but in the medium term the numbers of distressed sellers and repossessed properties entering the market, coupled with a lack of available mortgage finance for most buyers, would… (View Post)

Well bully for them. And what of the vast, and increasing, numbers of people who can't afford to accumulate their own assets and don't have minted parents who are eventually going to die and leave th… (View Post)

I continue to suspect that Labour's plan for Government is going to end up being continuity Toryism with some extra windmills - but if they can at least get more houses built than the Tories as well,… (View Post)

The prognostications of doom re: inflation and interest rates seem to getting worse by the day now. BoE may well jack up the base rate another 0.5% tomorrow, with little to suggest that it will do mu… (View Post)