[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Seems somewhat defensive

I'm not sure how an objective appraisal of the country's overall economic position can be defensive . If anything it seems like patriotic defensiveness to refuse to admit that we're not firing on all cylinders. It's just a fact. And if it isn't, what's your man Farage's problem and what is he looking to reform? The country's going like the clappers, why would you reform anything

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I'm not sure how an objective appraisal of the country's overall economic position can be defensive . If anything it seems like patriotic defensiveness to refuse to admit that we're not firing on all cylinders. It's just a fact. And if it isn't, what's your man Farage's problem and what is he looking to reform? The country's going like the clappers, why would you reform anything

Object appraisal of the country’s economic position
When did you become this country’s leading economic expert

Your giving your opinion on a big brother forum

Foreign investors buying property is nothing new but they buy flats or apartments mostly off plan , not individual properties

[user104658]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Object appraisal of the country’s economic position
When did you become this country’s leading economic expert

Your giving your opinion on a big brother forum

Yes but if you read or listen to anything written by actual economics experts instead of just going with this bizarre (and just not correct) notion that house prices are an indicator of a country's economic position (genuinely, where has that idea come from? An awful lot of people seem to think this is the case??) you will see that the ACTUAL economic experts don't think that the UK is in a great economic position. "Has it recovered" isn't really the right way to put it because things don't move up and down, they move onwards, and that might be for the better or worse for the average person in a country.

The opinion part - I don't see how there can be any argument that an increasing gulf between average salaries and average property prices is a sign of economic strength. It's just a sign that inflation is outpacing wages. Which is a major economic weakness .

Here's an actual graph if anyone wants some actual figures showing that, while it's improving since 2020, the economy seems not yet to have recovered from the 2008 crash (by around 5%).



There are countless more graphs, just sitting there for anyone who actually wants to look, but I'm not going to bother posting them here because it's TiBB SD's and I already know that "Well I think it has because house prices have gone up" is a good way to measure economic success, and basing opinions on what the actual figures and actual experts are saying, is "pretending to be an expert". Lord.