Reply to: Here comes the crash!

[northernladyuk]

Pulling up the drawbridge - Telegraph

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-perron-33561b23

So ends the ballad of Jeremy Perron.

[northernladyuk]

BBC News | SCOTLAND | Millennium bug bites couple

Pulling up the drawbridge - Telegraph

27 Oct 2001

Jeremy and Angela Perron were another couple who anticipated the trend. Two years before the millennium, they sold their home in Wiltshire and headed for a self-sufficient cottage in isolated Forres, Morayshire.
Not only did they stock up on rice and pulses, but they made sure that the cottage they bought had its own water supply and generator in case essential services collapsed.
The Perrons have since separated but are still living in Forres, where there is quite a large self-sufficient community. Jeremy Perron, a computer supremo, now lives on a nearby country estate. "Although there was no millennium bug disaster, I have no regrets about our move up here," he says. "We wanted to get away from the panic that is created every time something comes to threaten our lives.
"The south of England is like a powder keg - everyone is waiting for something to happen. With our community bartering system, we are self-sufficient on a wide scale."
Once upon a time, such self-reliant dreams were confined to the beards-and-sandals brigade. Now, Utopia is beginning to look like common sense.

[northernladyuk]

This reminds me of those winkers that sold up before the millenuim and bought a smallholding in Scotland from where they could ride out the zombie apocalypse.

I wonder what happened to them.

BBC News | SCOTLAND | Millennium bug bites couple

Sunday, 14 May, 2000

An English couple who fled to Scotland with their two children to escape Y2K meltdown have finally been bitten by the millennium bug.
Angela and Jeremy Perron have admitted they are to divorce nearly two years after moving to Forres, Morayshire, from their previous home in Wiltshire.

They said the media spotlight and the strain of stockpiling three weeks' worth of food put unbearable strain on their marriage.

Mr Perron, who did not enjoy the publicity their lifestyle had attracted, has moved out of the family home.

[vetran]

In hindsight, history will record the fact that Brexit was when Britian subsided into obscurity, irrelevance and relative penury.

so it will join You & Scooter soon?

[PurpleGorilla]

Oh really? That's why Germany is per capita the largest exporter in the world by a long margin?
And the only Western country with surpluses?

Germany is not the EU.

[PurpleGorilla]

Good graph and quite right.
Shame we have not much to sell to these high growth areas and are concentrated in selling services to the EU and US.
But hey you keep believing the nationalist bollux you've been fed.
When you lose your job though, remember it was the idiots you believed who caused it.

Plenty of work in defence, energy, oil & gas, aerospace.

I'll be fine thanks [emoji41]

[shaunbhoy]

In hindsight, history will record the fact that Brexit was when sasguru subsided into obscurity, irrelevance and relative penury.

ftfy

[sasguru]

But history will also note that Europe sank faster.

Oh really? That's why Germany is per capita the largest exporter in the world by a long margin?
And the only Western country with surpluses?

[sasguru]

There is huge opportunity to turn up the fire on the commonwealth.

Look where the global grow is (it's not the EU).

Good graph and quite right.
Shame we have not much to sell to these high growth areas and are concentrated in selling services to the EU and US.
But hey you keep believing the nationalist bollux you've been fed.
When you lose your job though, remember it was the idiots you believed who caused it.

[barrydidit]

Cash in at peak UK is the idea.
After Brexit I'll buy the town you live in

In hindsight, history will record the fact that Brexit was when Britian subsided into obscurity, irrelevance and relative penury.

Huddersfield? Then you'll have problems. You could probably buy it right now in any case. In fact, **** it SAS, you can just have it

[PurpleGorilla]

Here comes the crash!

But history will also note that Europe sank faster.

At least the EU is investing in its young...

[BrilloPad]

Cash in at peak UK is the idea.
After Brexit I'll buy the town you live in

In hindsight, history will record the fact that Brexit was when Britian subsided into obscurity, irrelevance and relative penury.

But history will also note that Europe sank faster.

[ladymuck]

...
This 3% SLDT nonsense is nothing compared to what the new Section 24 tax will add to tenant's bills. You would have thought that the government could learn from Ireland's failed implementation of this tax.

Yep stamp duty if you pay more than £125k in rent, cumulatively, over however many years you rent for. I'm guessing that's if you stay in the one property (I certainly hope so) for the long term. Just encourages people to move around, creating income for referencing agencies and letting agents, and instability for people that just want somewhere to live.

[PurpleGorilla]

Cash in at peak UK is the idea.
After Brexit I'll buy the town you live in

In hindsight, history will record the fact that Brexit was when Britian subsided into obscurity, irrelevance and relative penury.

There is huge opportunity to turn up the fire on the commonwealth.

Look where the global grow is (it's not the EU).

[sasguru]

This reminds me of those winkers that sold up before the millenuim and bought a smallholding in Scotland from where they could ride out the zombie apocalypse.

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Cash in at peak UK is the idea.
After Brexit I'll buy the town you live in

In hindsight, history will record the fact that Brexit was when Britian subsided into obscurity, irrelevance and relative penury.