What guitar do I get?

[MikeH]

Sloww has a good point there, strats are very good flexible guitars. You can get pretty much any sound you want out of a Strat.

Also worth checking out are Yamahas. My housemate got a Yamaha Pacifica at the same time I got my Les-Paul. It's a very good guitar. The build quality and sound generally are much higher than an equivalent price range Fender Squier. (It was about £160 I think, roughly the same as the Korean Squiers).

[Whaleboy]

Strats buzz too much!! The telecaster has humbuckers but wayyyy out of my price range.

[MikeH]

Standard tele doesn't have humbuckers.

You can get Telecasters for £500 though. Maybe not the top American Fenders but plenty of other nice ones.