Duncan

[Shaun Richards @notayesmansecon]

The UK ten-year yield has risen to 4.66% today something the BBC economics editor might like to note.

[Dave Buzan @DaveBuzan]

"With RAIDERS, I learned how to compromise creatively. The sequence where Harrison is battling the swordsman and pulls out the gun was a compromise that I made on the day that Harrison wasn't feeling too well." -- Steven Spielberg

[Duncan @DDC2]

@DaveBuzan It’s one of the best examples of a happy accident. This solution to their on-set problem turned out so much better than any amount of amazing stunt work and pyrotechnics

Wit Trump’s machismo every time

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Me, 2022: “My concern is the increasing chance of people losing their homes as inflation and mortgage rates rise.”

Debt pushers: “Charlie you’re such a doom-monger, everything’s fine.”

Dipsticks.

It was a mathematical certainty, as I said.

[john @Coleman48J]

Leasehold. " I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. It simply stole the land and property off the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles and have been wielding power ever since."

Tony Benn

[Duncan @DDC2]

@Maynardgcrabbs @d4doome Opening is great! Its visceral urgency reads like authentic Fleming. By the end it tails off a little, losing that urgency & danger. But vital Bros Grimm’esque evil fairytale tropes that Fleming did so well are there throughout, making this the best post Fleming (that i’ve read)

[Duncan @DDC2]

@interludewrlds Netflix cancelling it on a cliffhanger 0/10

[Duncan @DDC2]

@theDean1658409 @jeansbeetle1974 @moving_charlie Price correction was often answered with ‘yeah but BOMAD’. That isn’t quite the headline it used to be for the price pump media. As you say that well seems to have run dry in so much as no longer enough to save the market. +Tax & folk living longer means inheritance goes on care

[Duncan @DDC2]

@theDean1658409 @jeansbeetle1974 @moving_charlie 💯

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

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[Duncan @DDC2]

@moving_charlie The ~2 months between now and the October budget is a poorly camouflaged bull trap. Lenders will throw low rate offers at us hoping to lure in as much business as possible before Rachel scares everyone off with her October ‘Surprise’

They’ll call it ‘unexpected’ but ofc it’s not

[Duncan @DDC2]

@theDean1658409 @jeansbeetle1974 @moving_charlie This rings true. AI + boomer gen expiration will prob mean that house price growth we’ve had in past will never recur. Likely reach a nominal stasis point by 2030 far below today’s (perhaps 1/2) and remain there while inflation spikes shrink real value further still going forward

[Duncan @DDC2]

@NoEducationTax @BJones81533 @OllyMetcalfe @UKLabour @bphillipsonMP I confess there was a little sarcasm. I think far more effect should be made to equalise those differences between schools with equal funding, resources etc. I don’t want that to be a race to the bottom, but there’s currently huge disparities that need addressing

[Duncan @DDC2]

@JohnTuckersaur I wouldn’t want it to be seized, just paid for at a fair price decided by qualified ppl working with the gov. Then paid for at the same cost as ground rent already being charged

But that’s just this laymen’s view of what’s fair. I think the market may make such options moot

[Duncan @DDC2]

Labour promised to ‘bring the feudal leasehold system to an end’ when u wanted votes

Don’t pretend an additional policy here & there is ‘ending leasehold’

Don’t fool yourselves, Labour. These lies and broken promises = not a single vote from a leaseholder in 2029

[Fleur Anderson MP @PutneyFleur]

Too many people have services charges that are too high and not explained, leaving leaseholders and renters helpless.

A new law is being written to change this. Please send your experiences so that I can feed this in to Ministers directly. 

👉https://t.co/oSQDh3zzWj

[Duncan @DDC2]

@clark_kent90302 I’ll assume that’s a personal threat! Wonder what the police will make of that

[Duncan @DDC2]

@NoEducationTax @BJones81533 @OllyMetcalfe @UKLabour @bphillipsonMP Excellent! Then there’s no educational loss in an all state school nation. If some can do that well then it’s possible they all can 👍

[Duncan @DDC2]

@clark_kent90302 It’s a figure of speech you daft wee muppet. But there’s 51 so far agreeing on this post. How many can you show, ya sad potty mouthed eejit?

[Duncan @DDC2]

@APL_Remainer @moving_charlie Personally I expect the bottom to be lower than that

[Duncan @DDC2]

@NoEducationTax @BJones81533 @OllyMetcalfe @UKLabour @bphillipsonMP That’s not the reason Mexico and many other nations have issued warning not to visit the uk

[Duncan @DDC2]

@BJones81533 @NoEducationTax @OllyMetcalfe @UKLabour @bphillipsonMP Do you think most of the folk not actively looking for work had a private education, or a state education?