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The story of OnTheMarket.com

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On The MarketAbout seven years ago a sales representative from one of the two major portals came to me and asked for a 50% increase in our yearly tariff.

I was so horrified at the audacity of this proposal, that I thought I had misheard him. “Did you say 15%”? Even this ‘stuck in my craw’ as it was the equivalent of seven years worth of inflation in one hit. “No” he retorted, “I said 50%”, my worst fears were confirmed. He then tried to diffuse my mounting anger, by sheepishly asking me “not to shoot the messenger”. He explained that it was a diktat from the “head honcho” and there was nothing he could do about it.

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We are a proud, competent nation, which has changed the world in many ways… Lets stop ‘bashing’ the UK and start flying the flag

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Although I was not born in Britain, I am very proud and privileged to have lived and worked in this country for many years and I get so irritated by the ‘Remainers’ who cannot get over the fact that the Great British Public voted for Brexit in the Referendum and still feel that the only way for us to succeed, is to continue to hide under the ‘apron strings’ of the European Community.

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

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