The insincere weasel getting interviewed on Andrew Marr shortly.

I hope he get's a hard time.

Since when has wingnut given any politician a hard time? Marr's sucked enough political cock to put a handrail around the British coastline

Fair point.



Clegg is going to let parents and grandparents use their pension pots as security for their offspring to get mortgages and to get their feet on the property ladder.

I'd do that if it obtained a mortgage for either of mine, my pension pot is fooked as a pension pot now but its still more than is required for either of them to use as security, I've rolled over and accepted that those who control the money supply have shagged me senseless over the past forty years and so all thats left now is for me to pass on what I can to my offspring.



I'm not thinking of going anytime soon you understand though...

You got 80 grand minimum in your pot then McF?



Sounds a load of baloney to me and not getting anywhere near the root/heart of the problem.

The Lib-Dems ''admitted the scheme is still at the early stages of development'.



Mmmm!



[urlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check/2012/sep/23/nick-clegg-pension-property[/url

Quoted from that article...







I could cover that amount and bearing in mind that I don't, can't retire until I'm well past 65 (if we want to keep this house its going to be 70 as a minimum) then standing as guarantor for £10k against a property for the next ten years is probably safer than trusting NatWest to run the fookin thing efficiently, the jury is out on whether Aviva (who have bought NWB pension business) can do a better job.



Before I heard of this suggestion I was seriously thinking of taking out a further advance on the mortgage next year to give to the eldest as a deposit, her and her boyfriend have "professional" qualifications and jobs but are years and years away from saving anything like a deposit amount - when I was her age my dad lent me £500 which was all I needed to secure a mortgage on my first flat

The best thing that could happen to the housing market is the reintroduction of the three time salary guideline in terms of what you can borrow.

I'd say I hate banging on about this, but I really don't

Yup, sounds like a real idea. Let parents & grandparents use their pension pot so the kids can get a mortgage. Then the kids can rermortgage the gaff to pay for the care of their parents & grandparents. I can see this one has been thought through carefully and predict it will fly [size=30all the way to the wastepaper bin[/size

Aye, it sounds a load of bollards.



Mind, I'd be feeling desperate if I was lagging behind Nigel and his party in the polls.

Agreed.

Yep.

Average wage = £25,000

Average house price = £240,000



Also there's the issue of rent. There are too many people paying effectively a mortgage rate as rent.

I came up with a solution to affordable rents some time ago