Chomper Higgot

I very much look forward to it. Though I suspect the Government that arrives at the next election will make urgent moves to remove the barriers this current band of idiots have placed in between British businesses and the world’s largest integrated market located a few short miles away.

A new strain?

Having been an executor to a friend’s Thai and UK wills I strongly recommend your friend engages a UK based lawyer to draught and record a UK will covering his UK assets. I also recommend he appoint two executors, one lead and another standby, these should preferably be people based in the UK. Endure his wife has a a copy of the will, and contact details are shared between his wife and executors. Of no trusted executors are available ask the UK lawyer to appoint one, but this will cost - check prices. Also pay upfront for the will, not a fee based on value at time of execution. Fees for appointed executors may or not be based on value of assets at time of execution, but they will be pricy. On the upside an appointed executor will be very much more certain to be around come the time than friends who might move on. Acting as executor was for me a very fulfilling experience, I had the chance to ensure the wife and child of a dear friend received their rightful inheritance, and importantly ensure they kept it. It did however open a windows into some really disgraceful aspects of people’s motivations. I’m glad I helped my friend out, but I’d think very carefully before diving into that hornet’s nest again. If in any doubt I recommend your friend pays the fees.

The most important and that which will cause the most damage to the UK economy, businesses and the lives of ordinary people in the UK is the ‘Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill)’. In a repeat of earlier BREXIT outcomes the REUL bill transfers more of Parliament’s powers to the executive and removes Parliamentary scrutiny of Executive actions while at the same time stripping rights and protections from citizens of UK. A power grab that is getting far too little exposure in the news and public discourse. https://justice.org.uk/retained-eu-law-revocation-and-reform-bill/

Interestingly 2026 is the date when the UK must renegotiate the temporary trade agreement it has with the EU.

That’s what happens when economies are remodeled to transfer wealth upwards with a promise of a little ‘trickle down’. The rot started in 1979.

I agree that we both and others have broadened to topic, but the OP does proffer an open question. Yes we agree on many things and disagree on others. Yes the OP does consider the past three years and prospects for the near future, such is the nature of news. Regardless of disagreements I do appreciate your considered and supported responses.

I wondered how long it would be before one of his fan-boys showed up. He’s such a nasty piece of work and seething with so much hate, it was a certainty he’d have a defender show up sometime.

Let me correct you. BREXIT shall exist without impeding on the Good Friday Agreement.

I’ve provided evidence of a chronic failure to build the houses the nation needs. The beneficiaries of this policy are home owners who have enjoyed constant, often hyper, inflation in the value of their assets, and Government’s who have relied on the votes of the financially rewarded homeowners. Buy to let largely benefitted these same homeowners. Loosing out are people on low incomes and the young. Continually increasing prices and the lack of affordable homes is now becoming a political issue amongst these same people locked out of owning, and increasingly, renting a home. Scapegoat immigrants. Over four decades of failure to build the houses the nation needs is the root cause of the housing shortage.

A question to ask the Government that wasn’t building the houses the nation needs.

The advantage of economic data is it can be referred to by anyone regardless of their location. I look forward to updating my views of life in the UK soon after I arrive there in a couple of weeks from now.

Because he hasn’t got an argument against the damage Brexit has done and continues to do. So he wants to make the location/nationality of those pointing out the damage Brexit has and is doing the issue.

===== These same four decades you used began with the end of a busy post-war building era, necessary to compensate for zero building through the WWII years and just after them. After that then the numbers of annual new builds were exceptionally high. The graph I posted indicates a recovery in recent years (increased house building) but that has not been enough to deal with new high demand, which is far higher than before 1997, with much of that difference due to an extra 200,000 people a year coming in to the UK, This is a major factor and should be acknowledged. Yes there has been high house price inflation, especially after 1997, all partly due to low interest rates, environmental protection laws, plus local areas resisting rising congestion. Yes, agree, lack of social (council) housing - the discounted sale of council houses to tenants worked well for many but the effect of that has dissipated and new build social housing has been inadequate There has been a housing shortage throughout the whole 12 year period of the current Government’s tenure. At no time in those 12 years has the Government acted to meet the housing shortage with increased building. The last time that happened was, as you yourself noted, prior to 2008 under a Labour Government. Not building houses to meet demand has been Government policy. Once again you blame immigrants.

Well the Government are not collecting taxes on goods arriving from the EU (having failed to implement the necessary border customs checks), maybe your friends and family can get some of the completely duty free stuff.

Brexit is costing considerably more than stated in the link you have provided “Put another way, between April and June economic output was £33 billion lower than it would have been had the UK voted to stay in the EU, costing the government around £12 billion in lost tax revenues.In the year to the end of June 2022, Mr Springford estimates the tax loss at around £40 billion.” The BREXIT costs are continuing. https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-20/brexit-costs-government-40-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax-revenue

Can you point out anywhere in those 89 pages where anyone has claimed Brexit has been more damaging than COVID and the war in Ukraine?

The graph I posted indicates four decades of declining house building. A period that aligns with the same four decades of rampant House price inflation Four decades of public policy failing to build the houses the nation needs while propping up house price inflation. But along you come to blame it on immigration.

I’ll go with the Madeline, it brings back so many vivid memories.

More like a direct result of record rises in immigration numbers since 1997. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06077/ http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06077/assets/841f882b-a72c-484f-af35-f9b98546171c.png Immigration has added to the UK population every year since 1977. Would you expect house building to increase? Well house building has not increased, I’ve given my thoughts on why not above.

Ah ‘Jam tomorrow’ and ‘warm sunlit uplands’ just over the horizon.

And the predicted self harm ensued.

A direct result of selling off council houses, restricting the building of replacement council houses and promoting the private landlord rental market. Choking the supply of housing and putting first time buyers in competition with private landlords, many of whom leveraged their own existing property wealth to obtain. Lower cost mortgages and again getting ahead of first time buyers. Add that to the vested political interest in jacking up house prices and the reason why the UK is not building enough houses becomes clear.

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By ‘Brit Haters’ are you referring to people who supported, promoted and voted for the self harm we know as Brexit? People who actually cared about the damage it would do, and has done, presented their arguments not to damage the economy and the nation’s international standing.