Saturday, Apr 19, 2008
Gordy, you can't always get what you want...
Times: Chaos fears over strike at refinery
Fake low inflation, declining real value of salaries, unprecedented attacks of pensions, 6 million people on benefits in the UK, widespread benefit frauds, highest level of taxation ever, crumbling infrastructures, lost ownership of critical banks, power stations, roads, rails to French, Spanish, Germans. The dustbin of history is ready for Gordy and his clowns (Ed Balls first into the chute) the house price crash is the catalyst.
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1. Damocles Vs Sisyphus said...
If I was Crash I would be finishing off my hand-over notes and completeing a learning account. No after dinner circuit bookings for Bodger & Badger! me thinks
2. damocles vs sisyphus said...
If I were Crash I would be compiling my handover notes and start work producing a learning account. No after dinner bookings for Bodger & Badger! Me thinks
3. renting2 said...
Off this topic but. Acquaintance of mine is heavily involved in a charity providing food parcels to the needy WITHIN the UK. They are getting unprecedented demand from dual income families who can no longer cope. This demand is from families where a professional has certified the need to the charity.
4. enuii said...
This is the tip if the industrial action iceberg, there are many more rumblings out there as private sector companies dish out below official inflation pay rises and cut back on workers existing terms and conditions.
Rather than a winter of miscontent I expect we will see a summer one as the reality of inflation due to economic mismanagement spurs workers into action against increasingly stingy employers both public and private.
5. Hedgefunded said...
It really is all falling apart for Gordo.
Good.
6. plato said...
Certainly HPC is merely one symptom of a much wider impending crash. This probably more than anything is the reason for so much Media and VI denial in the past, and still is in certain cases to date. The realisation of the overall effect is harder to stomach than the comparatively 'simple' HPC.
It is absolutely considered a 'Catalyst'.
Politically the 'simple' event cannot be allowed to happen and begin a Chain Reaction. This is at the very heart of this denial.
We know this and it is known that we know.
Doubtless Great Thoughts and Schemes are happening at this time to gain time at any cost.
7. plato said...
and by the way : cutting pensions of ordinary people is a crime against humanity.
8. malct said...
2. renting2 said...
Off this topic but. Acquaintance of mine is heavily involved in a charity providing food parcels to the needy WITHIN the UK. They are getting unprecedented demand from dual income families who can no longer cope. This demand is from families where a professional has certified the need to the charity.
renting2 this is not, repeat not off topic - what is the point of house ownership / access if it is not part of a worthwhile way of life ?
AS plato says HPC is only a symptom of err, ahem, what did he say, (only joking)
history
- his story says - rebellion. We are too dumbed down - won't happen. f@art
9. waiting for the crash said...
Strike! Time to take the c### no longer.
10. damocles vs sisyphus said...
50bn's worth of monopoly money wont keep the fires burning for long (Diesel in Cockett, Swansea Esso £122.9), Who works the inflation figures out anyway? Gordon or Darling! Bring on the strike, start the slash and burn process and the green shoots will start to show soon enough!!!
11. alan said...
enuii,
I agree. A summer of discontent Teachers, Metronet tube drivers. Both these groups feel they are being "cheated". Lots more out there.
All the more reason to pretend a House Price slide won't become serious. Don't forget the local elections, folks. I wonder if any pressure will go onto Nationwide to reflect a neutral movement at month end? We shouldn't upset people before the election, should we?
The House Price problems are a symptom of bad government. Denial will stop a domino effect they think - NO chance, IMHO.
12. Fed Up said...
This couldn't happen at a better time at a better location, Grangemouth being not that far from either Brown's or Darling's constituencies.
13. hpwatcher said...
I agree with all of the above. I think we are looking at a crash, but everybody is comparing it to 1990's, but I think this one will be so bad that no-one will have ever seen anything like it before. I think we are looking at something quite new.
The architect is primarily Gordon Brown, due to his ignorance, incompetence and especially his arrogance. He failed to control the economy and to stop it from overheating on the obscene amounts of money being thrown at people. These people subsequently gorged themselves on it.
He simply didn't know what he was doing.
14. last_days_of_disco said...
I think the people without real jobs (bankers/traders/whole mercantile class) are utterly thieving from the working class, people who
produce real stuff. So its actually good that the people who are being spectacularly done down by the "highly skilled and mobile" banking class (haha, they are soooo arrogant -- their money has completely gone to their heads) are doing something .
Engineers, etc of the world must unite and bring these so called "geniuses" to account and show them who really runs the economy.
No petrol, no electricty, now lets try again, who is more important in the economy?
15. last_days_of_disco said...
This is the scary thing, how come conservatives like me seem to understand so much about the need for
collective action and real independent labour unions and the so called Labour party gets it sooo wrong?
16. Hk_bob said...
It's becoming increasingly clear, particularly after his trip the US and his chat with the banks last week, that GB is hoping to inflate out of this. Not living in the UK it's hard for me to speculate what impact this will have on the population, but it does seem that savers and responsible investors are being punished to keep GB, the lenders and the irresponsible out of the crap.
Essentially he's turning a serious correction into a major, long term problem to squeeze through at the next election. Makes John Major look like a saint.