Sandro Raniere

By a temporary slump, the housing market is cyclical yes but as an investment over 30-40-50 years it is a licence to print money, buying a house is a long term investment People out to make a quick killing might get their fingers burnt but shit happens, long term they will be quids in if they are patient, by long term i mean decades

Liverpool will fade Sure they have had a good start but they have only played 2 teams in the Top 10 and lost to one of them, their position is inflated by the cannon fodder they have been up against Plus they are heavily reliant on a player with a bad record for injuries and a player with a bad record for discipline

I don't see what is wrong in people bettering themselves What is better? owning a property or handing over hundreds each month to some landlord? its a no brainer Without this scheme many people would be renting for years to come

The number of first time buyers is rocketing, every day the papers are full of mentions that mortgage approvals and property purchases of first time buyers are soaring so they are not being deterred by rising prices, more scrambling to get on the gravy train

Technically, my mother lives within 3 miles and I do stay there occasionally so I do live there sometimes, maybe 20 nights a year I know the Sandbanks area well though

They can get on the housing ladder with rising house prices It means that they have to borrow more but more first time buyers are getting on the property ladder, 40% up on last year am pretty sure I read so people are getting on the housing ladder

I don't live in either of those places I live in Christchurch which while relatively prosperous is certainly no Sandbanks

It is a cartel, more than likely they collude with each other to fix prices so Cameron is talking out of his ass tbh I am a free market capitalist and proud of it but i am against abuse of power and energy companies are abusing that as are rail companies to some extent I would put the energy system under state control with the pricing underpinned by law

Ed didn't go far enough IMHO Even though I am a die hard Tory (UKIP sympathiser) I believe the energy companies (gas/electricity/water) should be renationalised and put under state control with a ban on any price rises more than 1% above the rate of inflation

That was before the recent rises, sure i expected rises but nothing on that scale and the anger about it is justified so of course short term Ed is getting a boost from his plan, i believe it will just be a short term boost though

Labour have extended their lead a little but imho it is a blip because of energy prices, Ed's energy price freeze while flawed is very popular atm while energy companies are scamming us all with 9-10% rises but i am confident our poll ratings will bounce back in the new year when next years salary increases are announced to voters With businesses doing well atm i think pay rises for the next tax year will be pretty high which will make voters more confident

I can only speak for my area (south coast) but i see far more cars on the road than in recent years, many with new plates, queues in shops seem more than this time last year, I am finding my local Waitrose car park far more full, in this part of the country people seem confident about the recovery

The last bit is the important bit One of our sales team left a few weeks ago, according to his Facebook he has borrowed £38k against the value of his house to set up his own business, rising house prices clearly gave him the confidence to do it, given the first 6 months of the year were a record for new business start ups in this country I think a lot of people have done what he did

While I don't particularly believe in regions I also realise the only way to get a majority at the next election is to win seats that labour currently hold so it is important to make people in labour seats feeling more confident about their jobs and the value of their house Virtually the whole of the south east votes tory so house price rises there are just preaching to the converted

It is not the be all and end all, not even close, but rising house prices give people a feeling of wealth even if it is just on paper It swings the balance between buying that new car or not or that new 3D TV or that luxury holiday

Apparently house prices are rising in the North East faster than any part of the country bar central london North East is a strong labour territory so rising house prices and geordies feeling richer could change that in May 2015

Iconic figure, a major part of my youth It was probably inevitable that his lifestyle would catch up with him one day, he made Amy Winehouse seem like a nun when it came to drug use, but he left behind a great legacy of music

True music fans will always appreciate the music of the past Sheep who just go and buy what Simon Cowell tells them they should be buying are not true music fans

The other day i replied to 7 posts in one spree, i reply to everything i can

For one quarter yes, if that was maintained over a year that is 3.2% over a year, it won't be as high as that but probably end up about 2.5% for the year which is very strong indeed Most countries out there atm 0.8% over a year would be a wet dream let alone achieving that in one quarter

http://research.yougov.co.uk/news/2013/10/...pur-gdp-growth/ Another piece of great news, consumers feeling good too Soon this will filter into the opinion polls

No mention then on here of the hugely impressive growth figures Conservatives - Putting the Great back into Britain

Not at all, she just seemed to be the stereotypical blonde bimbo/eye candy on the TV AM sofa, she didn't strike me as a woman of great intelligence, nothing to do with class, look at the Ecclestone sisters, everything handed to them on a plate, best education going yet both come across as thick as pig shit

That shows then that none of those 3 hail from traditional tory heartlands?

I don't know too much about McVey although when i remember her as a tv presenter she didn't seem the sharpest tool in the box and Hague went to a comprehensive so Hague is definitely not one of the upper middle class Eton types like Cameron/Osborne etc