Mr. Eugenides:
Cyclops is effectively at the wheel of a massive £700 billion muckspreader, manure flying in all directions. Now imagine him gently easing off the handbrake, pointing it at the nearest crowd of pedestrians and, with a resolute squaring of the jaw, gunning the throttle. Picture Gordon Brown at the controls of a runaway shit-throwing [...]
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Well, it made me laugh
Posted in economy, tagged muckspreader on 13 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Budget Day
Posted in economy, tagged budget on 22 April, 2009 | 10 Comments »
According to everyone, it is Budget Day.
The VW’s fuel tank is full and we have as much stock of baccy and beer as we can afford.
Rather than sit here and observe the finishing touches being put to the wreck of the British economy I am going to the dentist’s for the first instalment of some [...]
Orders of magnitude
Posted in economy, tagged public spending on 21 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As I freely admit I know very little about economics, partly because I don’t find it at all plausible. There are religious cults all over the world with more credible creation-myths than those espoused by the current crop of economists. ‘Printing’ money? Good heavens; the Scientologists’ version of events reads better than this.
So I don’t [...]
Wildebeest
Posted in economy, tagged predators on 8 April, 2009 | 5 Comments »
An Englishman, on gits in suits:
We are the wildebeests by the waterhole. We are the ones who have to die to feed these ghastly, lazy, incompetent predators.
Damn it, Sir! Get a grip! If you are indeed a wildebeest*, then pray be so good as to imitate the action of a water-buffalo!
* I am not, myself. [...]
Extrapolation
Posted in economy, tagged disaster on 29 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As I may have mentioned before, I know refreshingly little about economics, and that which I have been obliged to learn I am, frankly, disinclined to believe. The most cursory interrogation of any City chap (facilitated, if necessary, by the customary means) will reveal that after only about fifteen minutes of cross-examination the fellow will [...]
A bad feeling
Posted in economy, tagged sovietisation on 12 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The lone voice and Ian Parker-Joseph remark upon this article in the Spectator, by Fraser Nelson, which suggests that the Royal Bank of Scotland, now effectively nationalised, is undertaking the political vetting of customers, and which concludes
The terrifying fact is that Gordon Brown and his colleagues are now in charge of most of the British [...]
Down tools, lads; all out
Posted in economy, tagged employment on 31 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
People are becoming fed up with hearing El Gordo [Sp.: 'the fat one'] blethering on about ‘British jobs for British workers’ and then being passed over for employment in favour of foreigners.
It says in The Telegraph that
No 10… stopped short of asking workers not to protest.
However, the 15-minute political-indoctrination slot which always follows the [...]
HMRC is Shite
Posted in economy, tagged tax on 9 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Accountancy Age (via HMRC is Shite, via Nanny Knows Best):
MPs have urged HM Revenue & Customs to trap tax evaders
by employing new powers intended for the fight against terrorists and money launderers.
Surprise, surprise. As though the legislation had not been drafted with this, and other ‘diversifications’, in mind.
Hartnett [HMRC acting chairman] confirmed [...]
Owe £1000: lose £150,000
Posted in economy, tagged banks, charging orders on 26 October, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It appears from The Times that property is now being seized by banks in respect of relatively trivial debts:
Banks and credit card companies are exploiting obscure legal powers to seize the homes of thousands of people who cannot pay their credit card bills… In some cases, people owing as little as £1,000 have been served [...]
History repeating itself?
Posted in economy, tagged history on 19 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Burning Our Money wonders whether history repeats itself, and produces this graph, which, to a mere techie, looks really rather convincing:
Is it true, then? Well, is it?
