Guest mattsta1964 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Interviewer But Prime Minister, people have been borrowing 6 times their salary to get on the housing ladder, and your own advisor, Alan Greenspan is saying that the UK should expect higher inflation and higer interest rates in future. How will these people pay their mortgages??? Gordon Stalin Well errr b.b.b.b.b erm ah well errrrr hmmmm ahhh....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qetesuesi Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Interviewer But Prime Minister, people have been borrowing 6 times their salary to get on the housing ladder, and your own advisor, Alan Greenspan is saying that the UK should expect higher inflation and higer interest rates in future. How will these people pay their mortgages???Gordon Stalin Well errr b.b.b.b.b erm ah well errrrr hmmmm ahhh....... Sounds good, I'll catch up with it. Matt where are you emigrating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mattsta1964 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Sounds good, I'll catch up with it.Matt where are you emigrating? Oregon USA hopefully It'll take a couple years to sort out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sikejsudjek Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Oh no we can't legislate for how much banks can lend. (Mind you we can legislate for everything else....). Also wouldn't condemn NR's directors bonuses. Still waffled on about inflation being only 2%, and how electronic goods were keeping prices down. That's OK then - I'll eat the microwave for breakfast ! Just showed what a puppet of the banks and the vested interests of the rich he is. Not so much NuLabour as NuTory. No wonder he had Thatcher to tea the other day. Trouble is the Tories are the same on these issues. The moneylenders have politics sown up in this country as usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qetesuesi Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Oregon USA hopefullyIt'll take a couple years to sort out Best wishes with that. I'm listening to the interview now but it's 20 mins. long. Any rough idea whereabouts in the interview the juicy stammering comes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mattsta1964 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Best wishes with that.I'm listening to the interview now but it's 20 mins. long. Any rough idea whereabouts in the interview the juicy stammering comes? He didn't really stammer but he did seem a little flustered when pressed by the interviewer at some points At least she didn't give him too easy a ride, as you would expect from the politicised, emasculated journalism that exists in the BBC these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qetesuesi Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 He didn't really stammer but he did seem a little flustered when pressed by the interviewer at some pointsAt least she didn't give him too easy a ride, as you would expect from the politicised, emasculated journalism that exists in the BBC these days. Indeed. BTW I've just got to the relevant point in the interview - it's 9 minutes in, in case anyone else is trying to find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Vinci Code Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Interviewer But Prime Minister, people have been borrowing 6 times their salary to get on the housing ladder, and your own advisor, Alan Greenspan is saying that the UK should expect higher inflation and higer interest rates in future. How will these people pay their mortgages???Gordon Stalin Well errr b.b.b.b.b erm ah well errrrr hmmmm ahhh....... Does anyone have a link for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qetesuesi Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Does anyone have a link for it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/ram/toda...wn_20070924.ram Surely you know how to listen again on R4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mattsta1964 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Indeed.BTW I've just got to the relevant point in the interview - it's 9 minutes in, in case anyone else is trying to find it. I dunno bout you but listening to Gordon Brown is an intensely uncomfortable experience. He has the social skills of a parking warden, the patois of a constipated Scottish insurance salesman. He is quite abhorrent, the ghastliest creature ever to have arrived in the UK political scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Vinci Code Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/ram/toda...wn_20070924.ramSurely you know how to listen again on R4? Thank you. Should know, will try harder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I listened to this too - there was a real discrepancy over the crucial point of Greenspan saying UK inflation was due to rise & interest rates would have to be in double figures, Brown denied he'd said this and disputed it, but if 'Mr Greenspan would like to call and confirm' the fact He managed to sidestep the question of whether he'd advise his son to take out a 6x salary mortgage too, rolling out the 'proportion of salary' argument - repayments being half what it was when IR's were 15%. O, That's ok then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckmojo Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 That man makes me want to punch the TV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mattsta1964 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I listened to this too - there was a real discrepancy over the crucial point of Greenspan saying UK inflation was due to rise & interest rates would have to be in double figures, Brown denied he'd said this and disputed it, but if 'Mr Greenspan would like to call and confirm' the fact He managed to sidestep the question of whether he'd advise his son to take out a 6x salary mortgage too, rolling out the 'proportion of salary' argument - repayments being half what it was when IR's were 15%. O, That's ok then At least the BBC is asking these questions! albeit 5 years too late!!!! Gordon Brown tried to deny what his own advisor has publically stated is the future for UK interest rates and inflation. I hope people were listening carefully because that really sums up the size of the tsunami that heading our way in the next couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarks Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 (edited) Folks Election fever is in the air. We've always known the extraordinary relationship Labour has with the media, the BBC in particular especially since the Dodgy Dossier affair. Gordon Brown is known to be a control freak so it would be no surprise if the BBC showed subtle bias towards Labour over the next few weeks (especially now with the Labour Party conference on in Bournemouth). Let's keep a sharp eye out for subtle plugs for Labour on behalf of the Dear Leader. Here's an example of one I spotted this morning: During a BBC Breakfast TV report about an amateur football team flying off to visit Namibia, bizarrely and totally unconnectedly, they slipped in pictures of Gordon Brown doing a photo opportunity, smiles gushing for the camera with the reporter saying something along the lines of " . . . . and the Prime Minister was good enough to see them off." What the hell did Brown have to do with it? Nothing. And he was good enough to see them off, was he? Good enough? Surely its the other way around - they were good enough to give him his plug? What I found most sinister was the surreptitious way Brown was slipped into the article, that he was portrayed as selflessly doing others a favour and the BBC broadcast it. Surely the whole story had been concocted for nothing more than Brown's benefit. Edited September 24, 2007 by nmarks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarks Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 (edited) Continuing the theme of sharp eyes . . . . Given that following a rugby injury Gordon Brown has a false eye and that the UK is a country of sheeple, it can truly be said that: "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king". Edited September 24, 2007 by nmarks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneer Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Interviewer But Prime Minister, people have been borrowing 6 times their salary to get on the housing ladder, and your own advisor, Alan Greenspan is saying that the UK should expect higher inflation and higer interest rates in future. How will these people pay their mortgages???Gordon Stalin Well errr b.b.b.b.b erm ah well errrrr hmmmm ahhh....... LOL. Again its gordons fault is it. What do you thing he can do about it then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Vinci Code Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 LOL. Again its gordons fault is it. What do you thing he can do about it then? Instruct Darling to increase interest rates to 8% and keep them at that level for 12 months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneer Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Instruct Darling to increase interest rates to 8% and keep them at that level for 12 months D- . Must try Harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DabHand Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 9% ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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