casper_uk Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 No idea who it was, but they just interviewed a guy on bbc news 24. "House prices have already fell 15% and we are in for at least another 20% but there is a chance they will half" Also in for a 12-18 month recession Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord D'arcy Pew Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Gordon Brown is like a man who runs into a burning building and saves a small child. Then two weeks later he is charged with arson of the same building. The population are in the hero phase, but I think Gordon has lit too many matches to get away this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AteMoose Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 No idea who it was, but they just interviewed a guy on bbc news 24. "House prices have already fell 15% and we are in for at least another 20% but there is a chance they will half" Also in for a 12-18 month recession Will Hutton, he has been very bearish the past 3 months, and correctly announced the banking crash a month before it happened! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icantbelieveitsnotbutter Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Had a surreal experience y'day, watching pmq - rather than seeing GB answering every question with a question, saw Harman actually trying to answer some questions. Now I'm not a fan by any means, but it really rubbed home how I don't think I have ever seen GB answer a question he's been asked. I 've seem him either answer the question he wanted to be asked, and ask questions, but never ever answer the question he has been asked. I remember Paxman asking Michael howard the same question 17 times - isn't it about time an interview did that again, stick to the question until it is answered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandare500 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Just posted this. ITV News at Ten was the complete oppositehttp://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...c=91993&hl= Glad I watched that instead. Yes it was. I smiled all the way through it(most of it anyway). They were pretty bearish(for tv). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VacantPossession Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 The BBC is institutionally left wing. People who go into the Beeb are liberal idealogues - this is widely known. Add to that: I don't think this myth is at all true (a large proportion of BBC reporters and journalists are failed Tory Candidates and some are ex-Tory Mps). But even if it was true "left wing" doesn't really exist any longer and I find it rather a tired old theme on this website that posters blame everything on "left" or "right" politics. The fact is that the whole of UK politics has been well right of centre for many years now, starting with Blair's copying of Tory philosophy in order to get into power and now Cameron's mimicking of Labour's policies in the hope that he will gain power. Party political positioning is now a quite outmoded and bankrupt argument. They are ALL further to the right on key issues than Thatcher ever was. Let's examine your comment about "liberal idealogues": Liberal merely means free thinking and lacking in oppression. An idealogue is one who thinks and has philosophical goals. All parties have such people in their ranks. What do you propose? That no one should think freely and everyone should be a bigoted redneck? VP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VacantPossession Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 we have become a nation of self-satisfied, docile, non-entities who no longer ask questions of what the "authorities" are doing. The BBC is symptomatic of this. Precisely. VP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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