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...a good or bad thing?

"Snide Brexit hasn’t failed because other countries won’t do what we want them to. That’s exceptionalism at its finest (probably helps explained why we aren’t liked much). If you leave a club you don’t expect that club to continue trying to accommodate you. To trade with them or sort immigration issues with them we have to play to their rules. We chose to leave, it’s our problem. Before Brexit how many small boat channel crossings were there per year on average? Our trade is down and channel crossings are up, inflation is still there and higher than it probably would have been without Brexit. I am struggling to find these sunlit uplands."

"Snide Brexit hasn’t failed because other countries won’t do what we want them to. That’s exceptionalism at its finest (probably helps explained why we aren’t liked much). If you leave a club you don’t expect that club to continue trying to accommodate you. To trade with them or sort immigration issues with them we have to play to their rules. We chose to leave, it’s our problem. Before Brexit how many small boat channel crossings were there per year on average? Our trade is down and channel crossings are up, inflation is still there and higher than it probably would have been without Brexit. I am struggling to find these sunlit uplands."

"Darlo Debs 11:43 Sat Apr 6 The regulations are fine for a known number of potential occupants. Have been so for decades - generations even. How many do you plan for when you DON'T KNOW the potential number of occupants/users? Would you be happy with money that pays your social care wages being diverted to pay for something that may never, ever be used by someone we don't know exists??"

It was to stop freedom of movement which mean’t any immigration went through proper checks from wherever in the world. Because the Eastern Europeans didn’t want to go through this fair in other countries process and threw a tantrum they stopped flooding in now they had to queue for their freebies along with the rest of the world. Now we don’t give the EU shitloads of money suddenly illegal routes are fair game so the French in particular are being cunts even though we are giving them shitloads towards the problem that wasn’t there before how strange. You STILL have citizens in this country because they lost a vote and because their political party of choice bottled it STILL backing these snide continentals and their historic hatred of the U.K.

"chim chim cha boo 7:40 Sat Apr 6 ""Are you enjoying Brexit?"" When people blame it for everything, very much so. Was it George Osbourne who said housing prices would drop 18% within a few years of Brexit? They're probably over 20% more expensive now compared to 2016. It's very difficult to lose money on bricks and mortar in this country."

"Mike this is why I pointed out that planning ( and by that I meant planning regulations for building) and housing policy is failing because there are housing shortages in loads of place, many of which barely sees any immigration. NIMBYism scares Tory MPs and stops them making decisions which need to be made for whole communities not just the well off members of it that vote for them. Hence why Rishi u-?turned on a housing bill he was going to introduce at the start of his time as pm."

Saw this yesterday. Such an absolute non story underneath the overly dramatic headline. Caught a few though.

"Are you enjoying Brexit? Andrea Leadsome famously said that the EU would miss us more than we missed them. That Victorian ghost of a cսnt Mogg was talking the other day about a hard border crossing in Ireland being a poor idea because 'anything that makes it more difficult to get trade into and out of a country is a poor idea', an ironic statement that runs completely counter to Brexit and our stopping open trading with the largest free market the world has ever seen. We've got to stop trusting these dim cunts with no idea of struggling to bring their food to their families just because they were born lucky, fed into the British privileged private school system and talk like the kind of people who sound born to rule - and fuck me, they carry an arrogance bred into them- even if they are stupid, incompetent at best and incredibly greedy and corrupt at their worst. The kind of people you regularly vote for mug you off at every turn, born 3-0 up and insist they scored a hat-trick. And you believe them."

"As long as there‚Äôs never going to be enough housing to home the influx of people investing in property never going to fail. Personally as soon as my youngest hits 18 in 14 months we‚Äôre moving out of suburbia to mid Suffolk south Norfolk ?ü§û near the coast. For a pukka 4 bedroom house that way including an outbuilding ,(potential holiday let)on the edge of a nice village with a pub /shop you won‚Äôt get much change out of 800 grand such is the demand."

"Oxsaw once again talking about his personal finances on a football forum, he just can't help himself the saddo."

"It's not Immigration, it's the legacy of that witch, Thatcher, selling off all of the council houses. And what really gets my goat is all of these people whining about interest rates. I bought my first house in the early 90s and the interest rate was 9%. £800 per month for a £90k cottage, in which you'd have to cut the legs and head off a cat to swing it. Don't buy what you can't afford. Interest rates change. Stop being so fucking self entitled. The world owes you nothing."

"Darlo Debs 3:10 Sat Apr 6 How can a government plan to build the required number of houses to house the expected population at any given time in the future, when both that time and the numbers (now expected) are changing daily? How long is the end-to-end process for converting shops & office into suitable accommodation. How long is the same process for bringing back into use buildings that have been condemned as unfit for human (HUMAN) occupation accommodation? How long is the end-to- end process for building a brand new estate/village, possibly sequestering someone else's legally occupied land to do so? How long after that do we start planning roads, railways, schools, health centres, recreational areas, power, water, internet, bin collections, highway maintenance and a whole other raft of activities that make current society infrastructure what it is."

"joyo 11:11 Fri Apr 5 How does you finding it ""fair"" make a question about mud huts in Muscat have any relevance to house prices in my current location, Belvedere, SE London (OK,OK, it gas a Dartford postcode, but that;s not important right now. What do YOU think is a fair price for a local resident to pay for a mudhut in Muscat without outsiders swooping in and pushing the prices up? YOU might not want me to be in the UK at the moment. In fact you probably need me to not be back in the UK, but them's the apples and my Freedom Pass is getting a good daily caning. My pension fund, or the pocket-money part of it, is triple locked so the real question is :will you (that's YOU, that is) have to pay more and more money each year for me to just piss up the wall/fly off to exotic places, stamping my massive carbon footprint everywhere I go. Oh, and Swiss, Muscat was nearly 3 years ago. I know that time in solitary can be somewhat disorienting, as can some sex-offender registration signing-on conditions, but do try to keep up.? Hot Marta back, is it? Is see still giving you deserved grief?"

"Nutsin housing. Policy has been failing for years in and out of London , using immigrants to deflect from Incompetent and corrupt government is just lazy Just ask Robert Jenrick"

"Mickey you seem a bit confused, the ‘legal’ immigrants you are moaning about here in part include many that Brexiteers said they didn’t mind letting in. you know, refugees they approved of and people that could bring in skills we didn’t have. Plus you say they are a burden but foreign students pay more to study here than our own students thus keeping our universities going, ( and the economies that surround them) Hardly a burden"

"The obvious answer is all the immigrants, it’s not difficult now is it. People have been using London as a tax haven for years, never had these type of shortages before"

Got a feeling that London being used as a bit of a tax haven might be something to do with that ?

"Spot on Brunno, as long as the governemnt is letting in over half a million immigrants every year (and these are the ""legal"" ones we give visas to) we're never going to be able to build enough houses to bring the price down, let alone the prseeure on the NHS, schools etc. So much for Brexit giving us back control!"

still going up in London. Have that you carrot crunching slags https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/podcasts/why-house-prices-are-dropping-in-uk-but-rising-in-london-b1149753.html

If the pool Of buyers that can afford to get on the bottom rung of the chain shrinks too much though Bruuuno then inevitably it becomes unsustainable. Apologies for mixed metaphors

"Oxbore l ain't Swiss,but he did ask a fair question How much you pay for that mud hut in the poverty stricken village near the Cambodian border? I mean if does drop a few baht will it make much of a dent in your pension fund?"

I can’t see them ever falling seeing as we have more people than we have housing to house them in

I can’t see them ever falling seeing as we have more people than we have housing to house them in

"At least Manuel will be able to afford rent, so not all bad news."

*slits wrists