Friday, Sep 24, 2010

Meet the new boss...

Estate Agent Today: No more boom and bust for housing, Shapps declares

"A few months into office, and already the housing minister is saying: “There will be no return to the way it was, because boom and bust in housing cannot be allowed to happen again.” Grant Shapps said it at the National Housing Federation annual conference."
Righty-ho, Shappsy, we are now right at the top of a boom (in Gordon Brown's defence, he said these immortal words when we were just coming out of the "bust" phase), so are you trying to say "We will keep the bubble inflated for as long as politically possible"???

Posted by mark wadsworth @ 04:45 PM (1142 views) Add Comment

8 Comments

1. Crunchy said...

"Well, it didn’t take long, did it?"

Joker, only 9 years since prices were at a sensible level.

"No more boom and bust for housing."

OK, so what's the boom and bust going to exploit the next time, apart from people made to feel desperate?

Friday, September 24, 2010 05:00PM Report Comment
 

2. Stickleback said...

That's awesome. To say that right before a massive bust.
Hardly got his first paycheck and already he's up there with Gordon Brown and Michael Fish for regrettable sound bites

Friday, September 24, 2010 05:06PM Report Comment
 

3. tenyearstogetmymoneyback said...

To repeat an old joke There will be no more boom and bust. From now on we will have bust followed by bust then more bust.

Friday, September 24, 2010 05:18PM Report Comment
 

4. estrader said...

Politicians are exactly that. They are not economists or scientists. The market will always find a way of circumventing their attempts to ‘fix’ things, just ask Japan or take a look at what is happening in the USA. A Politician can’t prevent boom and bust anymore than they can prevent a plane crash by announcing they will rewrite the law of gravity.

Friday, September 24, 2010 05:27PM Report Comment
 

5. estrader said...

Friday, September 24, 2010 05:40PM Report Comment
 

6. sneaker said...

Hahahahhah this is utterly tub-thumpingly hilarious

The new boss sounds JUST LIKE THE OLD BOSS

They will never learn

Friday, September 24, 2010 07:31PM Report Comment
 

7. hpwatcher said...

silly s0d.

Friday, September 24, 2010 09:58PM Report Comment
 

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