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View Hrolf The Ganger's Profile Hrolf The Ganger Flag 02 Nov 17 2.46pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by steeleye20

I think 3% would be fairer and bring savers back.

It would also make an impact on our binge culture, insane property prices etc.

The 17% interest rate that Mrs Thatcher brought in would if repeated now, make life quite interesting !!


Typically brilliant thinking from you.

All those people you care about, you know the ones who are hard up. A lot of them who are paying mortgages would be being repossessed.

That quarter per cent means around another £25 a month on a 100,000 mortgage by the way, so your 3% would be around £300 a month.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (02 Nov 2017 2.50pm)

 

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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 02 Nov 17 2.48pm

These phoney interest rates have fueled the housing crisis.

 


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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Typically brilliant thinking from you.

All those people you care about, you know the ones who are hard up. A lot of them who are paying mortgages would be being repossessed.

That quarter per cent means around another £25 a month on a 100,000 mortgage by the way, so your 3% would be around £300 a month.


Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (02 Nov 2017 2.50pm)

Not even, £20.83 p.m.

 


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Originally posted by hedgehog50

These phoney interest rates have fueled the housing crisis.

Oh yes. But we are now in a situation where a few percent increase could spell disaster for significant numbers of homeowners and damage the economy.

 

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View Hrolf The Ganger's Profile Hrolf The Ganger Flag 02 Nov 17 2.53pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by Stuk

Not even, £20.83 p.m.

I worked it out using The Force.

 

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View steeleye20's Profile steeleye20 Flag Croydon 02 Nov 17 4.10pm Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Oh yes. But we are now in a situation where a few percent increase could spell disaster for significant numbers of homeowners and damage the economy.

The present housing crisis is entirely the fault of the tories hopeless economic policies.

A home is a place to live not a get rich quick scheme.


 

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Originally posted by steeleye20


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The present housing crisis is entirely the fault of the tories hopeless economic policies.

A home is a place to live not a get rich quick scheme.


No it isn't.

The housing crisis is a combination of immigration and a lack of house building. Neither exclusively the Tories fault at all.

 

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View Lyons550's Profile Lyons550 Flag Shirley 02 Nov 17 4.33pm Send a Private Message to Lyons550 Add Lyons550 as a friend

Originally posted by steeleye20

I think 3% would be fairer and bring savers back.

It would also make an impact on our binge culture, insane property prices etc.

The 17% interest rate that Mrs Thatcher brought in would if repeated now, make life quite interesting !!


I wouldn't worry...they'll be 3% soon enough but to raise them to 3% in one go would be suicide....slowly slowly...people need to be weened off of these low low rates

 


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View steeleye20's Profile steeleye20 Flag Croydon 02 Nov 17 4.36pm Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

No it isn't.

The housing crisis is a combination of immigration and a lack of house building. Neither exclusively the Tories fault at all.

The buck stops with the tories.

In power for 8 years nearly.

That's far too long they have no ideas other than to copy from Corbyn and that just makes them look ridiculous.

Brown and Darling would have got us through ok IMO.


 

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Originally posted by steeleye20

The buck stops with the tories.

In power for 8 years nearly.

That's far too long they have no ideas other than to copy from Corbyn and that just makes them look ridiculous.

Brown and Darling would have got us through ok IMO.


Oh fabulous...more politicking to ruin a thread

Edited by Lyons550 (02 Nov 2017 4.37pm)

 


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Originally posted by Lyons550

Oh fabulous...more politicking to ruin a thread

Edited by Lyons550 (02 Nov 2017 4.37pm)


To quote a famous politician 'its the economy, stupid'.


 

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Originally posted by steeleye20


To quote a famous politician 'its the economy, stupid'.


To quote numerous on here "Its f***ing boring; change the record"


 


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