Andrew Armstrong

Hill farming background, Chemistry degree, IT/Financial Services career. Advocates sound money. Loves history, test cricket, NUFC, fine dining & smiling

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

The rise and normalisation of 40 year mortgages is one of the things that has pushed up house prices.

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Homeownership is out of reach. Stop the excuses about war & debt!

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

👇"It is time to dismantle the apparatus of outcome-focused diversity schemes and return to the ironclad principle of merit-based equal opportunity."

https://t.co/4urpIjj9Tt

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

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@albieamankona on the Jason Arday scandal for Voices for a Free Future.

🗽Albie is an FFF Voice for Freedom - our group of young advocates fighting for liberty, freedom, and free markets.

👏"We must use this moment to reset the compass."

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

ANDREW NEIL: Our £3trillion national debt sits on a powder keg https://t.co/2RGoR1r5N0

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

I can't decide if this day out at the British seaside with the kids is a comedy or a documentary. Brilliant by @hannah1east

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

The UK’s movers and shakers are grossly overtaxed – which is why they are quitting the country in droves.

The anti-business agenda of successive government's is driving the UK economy into the ground.

My latest weekly "Economic Agenda" in today's @Telegraph

https://t.co/NY8BngrI3e

[Miriam Cates @miriam_cates]

The problem with any annual tax based on property value is that property values aren’t ‘real’. We are living through a massive housing bubble where prices have been artificially inflated by cheap credit over decades. The current ‘value’ of someone’s home - especially if they’ve owned it for a long time - may not bear any relation to how much disposable income they have and certainly doesn’t reflect the amount of local services they consume. The tax as proposed by Burnham would therefore be just as arbitrary as the current council tax system. It would be better to name it a ‘proximity to the City of London’ tax.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

When did you last hear a British minister acknowledge this problem?

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

House prices are falling in real terms and have been for 4 years.

What pushes house prices up is government lending rules allowing lenders to offer ever larger salary multiple mortgages.

You’re making things up and they’re not true.

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Goodbye Gary Economics.

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Yorkshire Building Society warns of a lost generation of home ownership, as older millennials approach mid 40s many still not owning a home.

It calls for government and lenders to do more. No.

Gov and lenders are the ones who have pushed home ownership out of reach.

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Sigh. And this is the Director of a Think Tank.

Refuses to even discuss the possibility that housing defies normal supply and demand rules because of the distorting effect of debt, and is thus shilling for more new housebuilding because he thinks it’ll bring prices down. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Ahem. 🙋

[Andrew Armstrong @AndrArms]

RT @LiamHalligan: Britain is doomed if Andy Burnham lurches sharply left

We risk a 1976-style crisis if the prime minister-in-waiting cave…

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Listen to this. It is well worth your time

https://t.co/OIs8c6KaS6

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Times Radio’s Andrew Neil calls out the “buffoon” blaring out music over Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation speech.

“The fact that we allow this to happen shows, that at times, we are not a serious country.”

@AFNeil

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Andrew Neil Report — what can we learn from the great financial crashes of 1929 and 2008 to understand if we’re now on the brink of another crash?
https://t.co/ejTP4f8R98 via @YouTube

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

More people catching up. "Housing scarcity played almost no role" in pushing up house prices.

"But you don't understand it's supply and demand Charlie" 🤦‍♂️

The supply and demand dipsticks have at least gone mercifully quiet now.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

"we've fixed the foundations" latest...