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Not buying it. Those bungalows would be bought up by The Landlords. Who'd fill them with The Immigrants. Back to square one.

Which would be bought by landlords.

even a more severe covid would have done the same, say if 2 million pensioners had snuffed it - all those bungalows hitting the market at once

Do you believe that house prices would then drop following that little bit of housework?

I never used the word steal, occupy is enough. Those migrants granted asylum end up in bricks and mortar. Houses and flats occupied by foreign people. So if a spaceship hoovered up all the foreigners in an ethical and painless way there would be a load of empty properties

I know absolute family people , with fantastic attitude to there own people, and utter hate to every west Europe people, and that’s ok if they stay in their own country but absolutely not ok if you leave in West Europe! You all forget I am emigrant and I work in asylum seeker system , they telling me things you never hear from them cause they think iam on their side! And that’s going on for last 15 years it was vary different before! It is a big difference when you have representation 1 to 1000 and when it’s become 100 to 1000 ,and when they don’t want to assimilate!

Supply and demand is a factor but a tiny one. It's not even the icing on the cake. It's some sprinkly bits. It would be the major factor on a level playing field but we don't have a level playing field. Fiat money has ruined the playing field. We could have half the population here and land will keep sliding towards people who already own some. They're playing Monopoly. Good point about places like Italy. Not sure what's going on there. Will ponder.

^ Migrants aren't stealing the housing.

Ahh, but it is dead easy to pick and choose isolated news stories at will, ignore those that don't fit, and push your own agenda. Likewise, my experience of people is that they are all the same regardless off nationality and religion - you get dedicated family parents, very clever academics and utter arses in about the same portions.

Yes, bird feeders, or rat feeders if you like - all the suggestions are only put out 1 days food at a time (RSPB and so on).. but of course it is more convenient to fill up a months word of rat food in 1 go. Our birds get a handful of nuts each morning, and so far no rat problem.

And before Brexit they would have been assessed in France, the UK - along with the rest of the EU - agreements to return to them to the first safe place... and that agreement was torn up then.

Aye. No poisoning for reasons you articulate. Besides lead poisoning.

I have bird feeders so I have rats . I shoot them out of my daughters bedroom window . .22 Daystate or .410 shot gun .

cutting back someone's garden last year - she had rats on her bird feeder. She got a pest controller to put bait boxes down and the rats went. Not sure if bait boxes would be safe around chickens and dogs. Maybe outside the chicken run, dog would have to be determined VID_20241116_104129373.mp4

Safe maybe.

not true, many Syrians have crossed in small boats from France - a safe country.

Tip site auto links still seem like a good idea, @Steve Bullman?

Stung tongues my guess. The new mother and survivor chick have been hiding from the sun and magpies in them. 22 on my lap, Stubby.

So that’s post worsening everything you said even more you are site with personal interests and involvement, your judgement is affected and can not be objective , and by the way you start showing your attitude to other nations more and more in negative way …….. THATS INTERESTING!

Quoting a wind snapped sycamore over a shed, fences, a caravan and telephone wires tonight. Hope it’s still windy when I look at it. I’m winning that either way. Bang in my wheelhouse. Ideal job for the Pinkwinch too. He’s a mechanic or machinist so that’s some common ground straight away.

Did a couple of quotes last night with two pieces of Dempsey derived wisdom in mind. That you need to actually be the expert and that giving a price then and there hammers home your confidence. Big cherry to prune. Shape and getting towards the house. Amenity. “Just before we go any further, how sure are you it’s a cherry?” “Well it drops cherries.” Excellent. Look like a moron early doors. Tick. Pulled it back by pointing out I was going to check whether it fruits and whether that’s desirable. Didn’t give a price because I said I was going to go and double check the pruning season for silver leaf etc. That impressed him I think because when I asked him whether he had any opinions on finished size, he said whatever I think. He’d already been critical of next door butchering their cherry to stubs so a moderately tasteful/informed client I think. Anyway. Didn’t look like a total chump but not for want of trying.