Does anybody here take the Greens seriously?

[BoldonLad]

Back then estate agents were unregulated and it was often necessary to go through the mortgage agent they worked with to ensure a purchase. That's how we ended up with an endowment. We later got the lender to convert it to repayment and put us back in the position we would have been if it was that from the outset.

Interest only mortgages were also heavily pushed at one time. Not sure how they panned out for users.

Contrary to my advice, son No1 did an interest only mortgage. He paid it off during the Gordon Brown years, using inspired/lucky* stock market deals.

* delete as appropriate

 

[CXRAndy]

Never had anything other than repayment mortgages.

Settled all our mortgages early in our thirties.

The flexibility of repayments was the leading factor

 

[briantrumpet]

Has anyone here ever tried listening to a podcast a 3x speed? The slowness of taking stuff in aurally via the spoken word is one of the reasons I nearly always prefer stuff in writing. More than one commentator is suggesting that digesting the spoken word at 3x speed is actually cognitively not possible.

 

[First Aspect]

Hemustbeevenmoreintelligentthankemi.

 

[briantrumpet]

Hemustbeevenmoreintelligentthankemi.

Maybe he was brought up on these classics...

 

[icowden]

Has anyone here ever tried listening to a podcast a 3x speed? The slowness of taking stuff in aurally via the spoken word is one of the reasons I nearly always prefer stuff in writing. More than one commentator is suggesting that digesting the spoken word at 3x speed is actually cognitively not possible.

I think there may be context missing. I agree that at 3x speed you wouldn't take anything in. If you are actively *looking* for certain content though, it might be doable.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Contrary to my advice, son No1 did an interest only mortgage. He paid it off during the Gordon Brown years, using inspired/lucky* stock market deals.

* delete as appropriate

They did sound like the next big disaster waiting to happen, like equity release was.
I can only think most people switched to repayment or rising house prices saved them when it came to clearing the mortgage.

I know it's trickier and more cumbersome to get a mortgage these days but back in the 80's between dodgy estate agents and financial advisors 'churning' products you were at the mercy of sharp practice at every turn .

 

[bobzmyunkle]

And here's one of the nation's more serious publications. Actually it may be the nation's only serious publication, but t it does manage to be crap fairly regularly.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...an-increase-breast-size-bbc-interview-reveals

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

As a Green supporter with substantial reservations about Polanski, I do believe he's capable of making a bigger tit of himself. Whether this can be done through therapy is another question.

 

[Psamathe]

As a Green supporter with substantial reservations about Polanski, I do believe he's capable of making a bigger tit of himself. Whether this can be done through therapy is another question.

Likewise. Voted Green on several occasions (used to be a Party member) and was (and still am) impressed with Adrian Ward but Polanski makes me think twice about voting for them again. Trouble is no other palatable choices. And the quandry is that Polanski has certainly improved the Green's electoral prospects despite being something of a fool.

 

[briantrumpet]

Likewise. Voted Green on several occasions (used to be a Party member) and was (and still am) impressed with Adrian Ward but Polanski makes me think twice about voting for them again. Trouble is no other palatable choices. And the quandry is that Polanski has certainly improved the Green's electoral prospects despite being something of a fool.

I was just reading this... I suspect that his populist sentiments aren't fully thought through...

 

[matticus]

I was just reading this... I suspect that his populist sentiments aren't fully thought through...

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Eh? That sounds like a completely reasonable discussion! I mean it';s not in the form of a nicely rounded soundbite for press release purposes, but so what??

 

[First Aspect]

Wow racism originating from poverty is a new one.

 

[icowden]

Wow racism originating from poverty is a new one.

Not really. I'd say it goes back to fairly primitive protectionist instincts. If you look at other apes, you see that they protect their own family groups and territory and can be very unwelcoming to outsiders.

If you don't have much, you are more likely to want to protect what you have and to be wary of "outsiders" taking what you perceive to be your resources.

Of course that's only a brief sound bite and I think a lot of racism also comes from ignorance and propaganda. Hence asylum seeker becomes synonymous with criminal because one asylum seeker did something bad. The press vilify and dehumanise - these aren't people and if they are people they are bad people etc.

You never see the mail reporting on *who* the asylum seekers are or what jobs and skills they had in the country they came from. They are always just over here because of our benefits system.

 

[First Aspect]

Not really. I'd say it goes back to fairly primitive protectionist instincts. If you look at other apes, you see that they protect their own family groups and territory and can be very unwelcoming to outsiders.

If you don't have much, you are more likely to want to protect what you have and to be wary of "outsiders" taking what you perceive to be your resources.

Of course that's only a brief sound bite and I think a lot of racism also comes from ignorance and propaganda. Hence asylum seeker becomes synonymous with criminal because one asylum seeker did something bad. The press vilify and dehumanise - these aren't people and if they are people they are bad people etc.

You never see the mail reporting on *who* the asylum seekers are or what jobs and skills they had in the country they came from. They are always just over here because of our benefits system.

Not sure I agree, but okay.