Fancypants

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sadly I think it would be more likely to confirm my own suspicions.

it never gets tired, does it?

Mrs McCann perfectly expressing what a lot of over-leveraged folk will be feeling right now.

Get in!

I'm with Mont on this one (he added as he prepared to cycle back from Canary Wharf down the almost deserted canal network of East London)

ah the beeb finally relents! LOL

owt on the Beeb yet?

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welcome to all recent newbies!

London HAs are pushing RTB very hard - they need the income to offset their huge budget deficits, made worse by the credit crunch. They're not having much success though, its a flawed idea - after all, if the HA tenants could afford to buy, why would they be in social housing in the first place?

To be fair, that was the initial reaction on here. You should have seen some of the wailing and gnashing even from some veteran battle-hardened bears on Friday night.

I've never seen him the same room at the same time as Boris Johnson...

There's your Olympic effect, right there! Come on you Os!

Chemistry though? It doesnt equip him well for being a public service broadcaster in the teeth of a trans-generational financial fracture as profound as this. I work with a chemistry graduate who has previously worked in pharmaceuticals and as a banking analyst, who has superb analytical skills but is only able to apply them in a very narrow context. He is completely incapable of seeing a "bigger picture", pretty devoid of imagination and creativity, and is finding very difficult to come to terms with what's going on at the moment. We even have a well-known Physics graduate on this board who has a few problems communicating effectively, and the frustration he feels rather shows itself in the way he talks to other posters sometimes. Of course, I was quite wrong to use the word "simple", but I do consider him to be woefully out of his depth. And you'd get pretty short odds on him being leveraged to **** too.

I made this very point to my OH this morning.

She had something of the primary school headmistress about her. Lord only knows how she managed to become a spokesperson for the CML, there was something quite intensely deranged about her. Declan is just a simple soul always happy to hear the same re-assuring titbits that most of the viewers do, and as most HPCers now know, doesn't require prostitutes, cash or drugs to be corrupted. A nice greasy fry-up usually does the trick.

George Bush in the Whitehouse, grief in Iraq, an incipient HPC. Its just like when the programme first started.

not on this website sir! Never!

Linky nice map in there!

£40 per week??

Indeed. 20,000 losses in by the end of 2009 may be something of an under-estimate, I suspect.

This, my friends, is one of the principal reasons why the internet is so wonderful. It exposes charlatans and windbags like Smith for what they truly are...

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