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Post by Westie on Aug 14, 2024 12:49:30 GMT
I just came to post the same thing! Absolutely hilarious. All the sweeter because she can’t appreciate the joke! |
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Post by Westie on Aug 14, 2024 12:52:51 GMT
That might be even funnier! |
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Post by dsjr on Aug 14, 2024 16:20:59 GMT
That might be even funnier! Part of me wonders if Coffey will be employable at this time, or whether she'll lie low (her Mother just passed away, so she'll be on her own in the home in Hampshire - Andover?) until an election possibility arises again. Whether she'll rock up here again come next time I really don't know. |
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Post by dsjr on Aug 16, 2024 9:08:13 GMT
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Post by Westie on Aug 16, 2024 15:44:32 GMT
It’s certainly over for her in the UK. I can’t see the Americans needing her either as they already have Farage as the token British loon.
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Post by dsjr on Aug 20, 2024 14:11:46 GMT
I know I keep referring to Guardian articles, but some aren't so leftie and many are critical of the new Labour government too, which is a change from the Telegraph's almost hysteria.. Every effin' thing in this country seems dependent on something else, which in turn is dependent on something else. here's the latest one - www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/20/union-warns-of-probation-officer-shortage-ahead-of-prisoners-early-releasesAssuming the government of the day really wants to sort the mess out, rather than inflict their rigid policies only on 'us,' it's going to take decades to sort it all out. |
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Post by Westie on Aug 20, 2024 17:14:26 GMT
Everything has been run into the ground by the Tories. Austerity never works. Nor does selling off all your assets. A country needs to invest, own and reap the rewards.
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Post by Westie on Aug 21, 2024 20:40:58 GMT
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Post by Westie on Aug 22, 2024 18:55:25 GMT
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Post by Westie on Aug 23, 2024 14:02:24 GMT
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Post by Westie on Aug 27, 2024 19:52:14 GMT
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Post by dsjr on Aug 28, 2024 9:12:35 GMT
The Torygraph is going into meltdown over Labour's economic austerity measures - and currently I think for good reason, although I knew these times would be coming whatever party sleazed and slimed themselves into government... www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/27/starmers-rose-garden-moment-backfires-facing-own-questions/?WT.mc_id=e_DM392498&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_FAM_New_ES&utmsource=emailThe sales of 'buy to let' houses/flats etc. is continuing apace here. This last year has seen so many 'empty with no onward chain' houses for sale here, it cannot all be the estate sales of deceased owners selling up. And there's an ongoing fight to prevent more building of tat-boxes here (our son's old high school site is having barrack-style 'stylish' apartments and small homes built, none with vehicular access and they're building right to the pavement rather than setting them back a bit. We call it 'HMP Deben'  |
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Post by Westie on Aug 28, 2024 11:30:31 GMT
Sometimes a comparative rise in values can spark a glut of properties for sale. People are always looking at what else they can have for the money. I was like that for years but I really never want to move again.
There’s nothing planned nearby that could be making people move, is there? Incinerators, other large developments, prisons etc can get people up in arms and selling up.
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Post by dsjr on Aug 28, 2024 11:47:48 GMT
We have some estates going up, two largely unwanted and no work nearby as the docks increasingly automates (the fairly recent strikes a couple of years back made up their minds to increase automation as in The Netherlands' equivalent docks). There's intention to build over a thousand more homes around here and there's uproar. Whether Raynor's determination will win-out I don't know, but it's so sad to see them building beyond the northern boundary. Mind you, to see what's happening around Chelmsford is simply awful, as the entire northern boundary has increased by half a mile at least with solid building works.
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Post by Westie on Aug 28, 2024 15:57:58 GMT
That happened up the road from me. I bought there because the properties just hadn’t recovered value after the 2008 crash whilst everywhere else had. When prices caught up, I sold. When I ended up with that cardboard bungalow, I really wished I hadn’t, but I did well on that one and got this place so it all turned out well. I was lucky though because when you are happy somewhere, it’s a big risk rolling the dice on a move.
I’m sure Dave will never countenance buying a new-ish build, but I’d urge anyone to avoid them. They have no redeeming qualities.
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