Deutsch Wolf
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Pound below $1.10 for the first time since 1985. It's all fine though because sorry, just got to take this call.
I completed on my new house last month, but had the mortgage offer agreed from Feb. Could have paid the ERC and took a whole new mortgage at a higher rate than currently fixed for 5 years, but instead decided to take a new Mortgage out on the difference, Ported the old mortgage, with a view to redoing that in a few months when my fixed rate expired. Obviously thought I’d get it at a decent ish rate so both chunks were locked in at a decent rate.I looked into this late last year as our fixed rate ended in June this year, called the bank as soon as there were rumblings of the rate rising to find out how early I could refix. Was told could only do so something like a month or 6 months before the term ended but if I were to change the term, just a year would do, then it becomes a new mortgage application and they can hold that offer for 6 months. So we did a new mortgage application mid-December based on keeping our payments the same but thanks to some overpayments we'd made the term came down a bit and that offer held until mid-June. Ended up having to pay about 10 days of early repayment charge for the new mortgage to effectively pay off the existing one before the offer expired, which was only a couple of quid per day I think. Must have got that money back in the first monthly payment considering how much interest rates have gone up since we did the application.
That ended well. Here's hoping. I dont think this administration will last a year as the civil unrest is coming.
Hearing lots of this today. A "great budget" (it's not a budget...), couldn't have done any better. None of these people earn over the £155k they would need to in order to actually benefit from these actions.Tory voters will blame global forces and swallow it, and always vote tory because no matter how bad they are, they're convinced Labour will be worse
The £155k is a bit of a misnomer as in if you are mortgage free and have savings you are also better off due to where interest rates are goingHearing lots of this today. A "great budget" (it's not a budget...), couldn't have done any better. None of these people earn over the £155k they would need to in order to actually benefit from these actions.
Bottom line (for them) is it's okay for the already rich to get richer, as long as no money goes to the lazy scroungers, the darkies and the gayers.
I'm not sure this is the case. People are mobilised quite easily these days and if there are empty shelves and inflation at ridiculous levels I think strike action and civil unrest won't be far away.The maximum 'civil unrest' will be social media noise from people that don't like Conservatives. Tory voters will blame global forces and swallow it, and always vote tory because no matter how bad they are, they're convinced Labour will be worse.
Pound below $1.10 for the first time since 1985. It's all fine though because sorry, just got to take this call.