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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Who's Miserable Now?

Polly is moaning about the Daily Mail, The Sun and "the dominant voices of the blogosphere" being malicious pessimistic miserablists. Is she having a laugh?

Guido miserable? Has she seen the polls? Labour polling the worst since polling began, Gordon the most hated Prime Minister in history with the most negative ratings ever? If Quentin Letts and Richard Littlejohn fancy coming out to lunch we would probably all die laughing... (don't get your hopes up Polly).

UPDATE : According to a co-conspirator Polly said on Radio 5 this morning that she earns £117,000 for her column.

90 comments:

Josef K said...

Anyone got a chainsaw and we'll cut the miserable bitch's hands off.

It's the least we could do to create a fairer, less shrill, future with fewer bleeding hearts.

Anonymous said...

Avoid the Guardian.

See the mea culpa post from the editor about the disaster that is the new CiF.

200+ comments in there is one that details all the spyware the Guardian loads onto your PC to track your every click.

I've since cleaned my PC and the Guardian can fuck off.

Stasi bent fuckers.

bob said...

She makes me laugh the mad cow.

starfish said...

How unfortunate it is that we plebs do not think the correct way

Has she considered the possibility that she is wrong and everyone esle is right?

Anonymous said...

FFS Guido. A picture of Gordon followed by a post on Toynbee is bound to make anyone miserable.

To compound matters that ad for politics home, which produces a giant sized image of Gordon if the mouse goes near it, is misery itself.

thick as thieves said...

I told you she was a schizophrenic bastard.
she's off her fucking head.
it is the members of the new labour war and occupation party, and their apologists like polly, who are a bunch of miserable, tired old fuckers.
and now they accuse us of pessimism.
cheeky cunts.

Phoenix Park said...

And Polly manages to juggle benign, optimistic positivism with being a full time mum and house-wife. A lesson to all us lazy useless chauvanist fella's in how to REALLY multi-task...

OK Polly... you crazy fuck.

Blue Eyes said...

Word is that Polly gets paid rather less than most of the people working for newspapers that people actually read...

No wonder she hates "the rich". Envy, envy, envy.

sockpuppet said...

classic transference.

Toynbee Poly must be crying herself to sleep, only to be woken by her own racking sobs.

If only we'd listen to her then we would realise that black is, in fact, whatever Gordon says it is today.

In the 1930s I have every confidence that she would have supported Stalin.

Dick the Prick said...

Whilst desperately trying to avoid work this morning and listening to E4's songs from 1990 it did occur to me that at least the last time we were sleep walking into a hideous recession at least we had quality drugs and music - now err.. Coldplay, Leona Lewis and oh good grief, i've lost the will. We had the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream. Anyway, just a thought - can't even smoke these days and those blinking adverts about booze just hack me right off.

Toynbee can ..... (contact your e-mail administrator)

Council House Tory said...

straight from the plebs are idiots and can't think for themselves school is polly.

someone posted on CiF that the best thing about the site is all the comments that have revealed the guardianistas to be a bunch of rich toff champagne socialists who desire nothing more in life than to tell plebs what to do. i'm of to leave polly a cheery message.

twistin'me mellons man you know you talk so hip said...

Dick the Prick:
"... the last time we were sleep walking into a hideous recession at least we had quality drugs and music - now err.. Coldplay, Leona Lewis and oh good grief, i've lost the will. We had the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream."

I'm feeling your pain. Great times, great music and top quality drugs too.

polydaemonism said...

"Rabidly anti-European, socially penal, xenophobic, anti-state, they spread the simple message that nothing works except markets mitigated by punishment. Instead of breaking away, the dominant voices of the blogosphere often echo and intensify this pessimism and malice."

Guido, you anti-European bastard, you just hate fucking Europeans don't you.

Secondly it's Polly's RIGHT I tell you to hold the dominant position, people like you who are base and popular are WRONG.

Polly's got a place in the gulag already reserved for you, you xenophobic, anti-state, socially penal, naughty boy.

red despot spotter said...

ever since little john upset her on news night (i say made her accountable at fucking last) i dont think i have seen an article .

i hear arronovitch has gone a bit off.

polly can moan all she wants , after all it was her vast intellect that propelled tony along , any regrets polly ??

oh hows that faboulous family property portfolio doing in london ?? ohh surely that grant money for refurbishment was helpful polly , you were very lucky to get that werent you, must have been loads of landlords could have done with that ??

eh polly keep writing , you know gordon pays well

pseudo intellectual said...

what gets me about people with towering intellects is just how fucking thick they really are!

Oscar Wildebeest said...

Nice to see TaT 2.0

Spastic free.

Waiting on 2.1 with added wit.

Anonymous said...

A bit off topic & I hope it's OK to post jokes here but I received this one in my email today & it made me laugh out loud :

A driver is stuck in a traffic jam on the motorway. Nothing is moving. Suddenly a man knocks on the window.

The driver rolls down his window and asks, 'What's going on?'

'Terrorists down the road have kidnapped Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, David Miliband and Jack Straw.

They're asking for a £10 million ransom.

Otherwise they're going to douse them with petrol and set them on fire.

We're going from car to car, taking up a collection.'

The driver asks, 'How much is everyone giving, on average?'

'Most people are giving about a gallon.'

thick as thieves said...

I was ordered to desist.

LH said...

Dear Toynbee

I am soooo sorry. I've just realised I am all wrong and you are so right.

Just one thing though...if this country is full of Europhobes whay have so many of us fucked off to live there? Perhaps it's because your labour pals have taxed like never before, spunked the money away on shit and allowed the country and its services to rot. Thing is with people like you: you can talk a good fight but you are shit at actually doing anything. That's why twats like Milburn, Harman, Beckett et al fuck up every department of state they go near. They are frigging useless.

This also explains another political hot spud: booze. We all booze here because the country is a cramped, cctv ridden, street furniture covered, PC obsessed shit hole. Getting drunk these days is all that is pleasurable on this knackered island.

Anonymous said...

She earns 117,000 pounds a year - she said so on Radio 5 live this morning.

No wonder she empathises with the poor so convincingly

backwoodsman said...

GF, its not just the polls , come and have a day hunting. See all the happy peasants getting enormous satisfaction from ignoring labours flagship legislation, proving what utterly delusional twats labour and their 700 hours of wasted Parliamentary time are.

Anonymous said...

Not sure whether this should be posted here or under the items about the Irish Referendum.
Have just got back from visiting family in Ireland & got involved in a neighbourhood social event there over the weekend. Guests mostly consisted of the 50+ generation, pretty conservative - not mad young hotheads & the subject of the Referendum got some of them spitting blood. Mostly about the EU response to the Referendum 'we'll continue with ratification anyway' etc etc. The 'No's' knew exactly why they'd voted that way - losing sovereignty, EU making micky mouse rules about the size of carrots ... & even the 'Yes's' were joining in on that theme. There was also talk (not entirely negative) about Ireland leaving the EU & even suggestions about joining the UK in a trading partnership instead. If this group was representative of the voters generally, I would say that the next vote will be an even firmer 'No' with many of the 'Yes' group changing sides. The local columnists all appear to be in a lecturing & patronising mood, supporting the govt. - which is not actually helping Biffo & his pals.

Newmania said...

What she does not understand is that moaning makes me happy but if she really wants to drop relative affluence from the equation perhaps we can also dispense with relative povertyy wherby the inablity to afford three holidays without leaving bed becomes national emergency .

Anuvver fing -There is no skew to the right in the written media . The left are propped up by soft funding to the New Statesman and her rag as well as the anachronistic BBC.

If you do not like it buy more Daily Mirrors. Its a free country

SO FAR

peter carter-fuck said...

"She earns 117,000 pounds a year - she said so on Radio 5 live this morning."

I heard that too. And the rest.

The fucking stupid cunt wants to pay more tax. Nothing's stopping her. Just send a cheque to Gay Gordon. It won't be wasted, Davina Milipede needs a new party dress. And her arse needs stitching up. Again.

Penfold said...

Screw the harpy............metaphorically speaking of course you understand. One doesn't want to physically sully oneself.

Polly is a wailing banshee, gnashing her teeth at the winds of change, and loudly bemoaning the awakening of commonsense and sensibility.

Like all of her ilk she is unable to discern anything positive in an opposing viewpoint, imagining in her naivete that only the sozi's have the way forward and the grand idees.

Anonymous said...

Polly is no intellectual. She failed her 11plus and was kicked out of Oxford mid-way through her history course. Her obvious lack of intellect or suitable qualifications was no barrier to getting a job at the BBC, the Independent and now the Guardian. She had the one qualification that mattered - she's a died in the wool rabid socialist.

She lives in a £3million house overlooking Clapham Common. She also has a house in Tuscany close to the holiday homes of Geoffrey Robinson and Tessa Jowell.

polly ovaries said...

Anon 11:42
"She had the one qualification that mattered - she's a died in the wool rabid socialist."

I think she also took it up the garry glitter.

Anonymous said...

I see the Daily Politics is discussing RIPA and the Stasi nature of this Govt.

Apparently 'we' are all wrong, they are not 'spying' on us, they are 'investigating' serious crime, like benefit fraud and dog shit and what school you send your kids to.

Fuck me if the above is serious when will the death penalty be reintroduced amd can we look forward to people being deported for stealing bread (but not for islamist terrorism obviously)?

Cunts the lot of them.

Anonymous said...

I imagine there are also substantial fees for Polly from her pontifications on the BBC.

slipper said...

re polly ovaries 'course she did no-one wanted to look at that boat race

thick as thieves said...

the bbc expenses are very generous indeed.
and nobody checks them, just like the commons.
good one, innit?

Old Holborn - bitter and twisted said...

Isn't she lovely?

http://thefisk.typepad.com/thefisk/images/polly_toynbee_2.jpg

45govt said...

old holborn - Jeessuss, now I know that what polly ovaries @ 11.46 said must be true. You wouldn't want to face that would you?

Clapham Commoner said...

Pollyanna is a hypocrite of the first order. She wails against pessism, yet she is the biggest pessimist of the lot when it comes to Tory Councils.

Oh how callous they are, oh how CRUEL they are!

She tells us that Councils like Croydon presage a heartless Eton-Tory Govt, SO WATCH OUT!!

Yet strangely, the shrill, siren voice of Clapham Common never finds fault with her own (Labour-controlled) council of Lambeth, Oh no, no, no!

No mention of its soon to be tripled (in two years) social care charges, levied on the most vulnerable. No mention that tax, rent, and various charges are all up by more than inflation. Or that the Council has blown the money on increased allowance for (pompously renamed) Cabinet-Member Cllrs, and still more on a vastly inflated propaganda operation.

She doesn't mention any of this because she is a Labour Party shrill. She can't pass her 11-plus, she can't graduate from University, and she can't see, hear or speak evil when it comes to her beloved Labour Party. I am surprised the Electoral Commission doesn't demand that her mad warblings be put down as an election donation to the Labour Party.

Polly Toynbee, a "journalist"? Yes, but only in a nation that describes The Smith Institute as a "charity".

javelin said...

Silly little Polly, never grew up after University.

Her and her kind will become rarer and rarer now that were in a globally competitive market. The real British disease is that we were willing to pay too much tax during the good times instead of securing our economic advantage, like the rest of the world.

Polly has tried her hardest to f*ck us all by making us pay more tax. She creams in £117 a year. I wonder if she's an employee or has her own company with lots of tax dodges. She sits in first class on her plane out to her villa in Italy looking down on all the "little" people thinking she has done such a good job for us.

Bring on Littlejohn for another "bitch slapping".

Eh? HALF PAST ELEVEN. said...

Everybody is reporting they heard la Toynbee say £117000.

Trip to the docs for me.

I swear she said £17,000.
I was thinking the grauniad have priced her just about right.

thick as thieves said...

I wouldn't pay the useless fucker in washers.

Old Holborn - bitter and twisted said...

David Davis currently being stitched up like a kipper by Radio 4.

Pravda/BBC earning it's keep I see.

Cassilis said...

She's not actually calling for an end to the moaning - she just wants to moan about different things.

Lisbon is a distraction, boardroom pay is a national scandal - immigration's not an issue, eating too little fruit will send us to ruin etc.

Given Polly's record over the last few years of weekly moans about how Blair was c***, Brown would be better, then OMG he's worse, who will save us etc. someone should perhaps tell her that since her stock in trade is pointing out where things have gone wrong she might want to be a little more tolerant of others doing the same thing....

Nancy's stout said...

The Sun and The Mail are rarely fit to line a parrot's cage but that doesn't mean they are always wrong. Watching PT and the like rage at the dying of their light is a pitiful spectacle.

Dick the Prick said...

I assumed she was related to Arnold Toynbee who had Toynbee Hall named after him? Another Millipede, Mandleson, Benn, Dunwoody, Clarke etc figure - namely lecturing us even though their rellies did all the work. Could be wrong though?!?!?!?

T England said...

What the hell is there to be happy about apart from Labour heading down the polls & out of power?

We are starting to exit the slowdown & enter a recession, house prices are probably going to fall as much as 40% & the job market is starting to suffer! We cant afford to have nice foriegn holidays, buy ourselves luxeries & even driving our cars is getting nasty, I'm sure I dont need to continue!
So! What is Polly thinking we should be so happy about I wonder!

As far as spying goes, I keep saying it & so here goes again!
We are constantly being watched, from how much electric we use in our houses to what we buy on our credit cards, I am quite into computer security but I wont even scare you with how much your watched online & how you can do NOTHING to stop it!

There are ways to stop the powers that be from watching you but you have to basically disapear & it's hard work!

Technology knows no bounds, it can get over the highest fence & seep through the thickest wall, dont you just love it!?

AntiCitizenOne said...

> She earns 117,000 pounds a year - she said so on Radio 5 live this morning.

Sorry for being a pedant but!.. She is PAID 117,000 GBP/year. Whether she earns a penny of it is extremely debatable.

Newmania said...

In addition to her Tuscany pad and her London Palace she has a property in Lewes actually. She is of course the niece of Lord Biddle of Wibble which is how she got her job opining despite catastrophic school failure .Her own children attended Public school.
In the interests of neutrality the BBC had her in charge of Social Affairs for a few years in the 90s an appointment roughly equivalent to having Nigel Farrage in charge of European comment.


I find the exmaple of a truly succesful planned economy like Zimbabwe insoires me to support her endless calls fro more and more government.

I think she is now a laughable eccentric and not to be taken seriously

Anonymous said...

I remember that it was 1983 when I first had the misfortune to read the deluded ramblings of Polly Toynbee - she was standing for Parliament in East Lewisham as an SDP/Liberal Alliance candidate - her manifesto was so fatuous that I was amazed to discover it persuaded anybody to vote for her! My clearest recollection is that the 'photo she used to 'promote' herself was clearly based on a 1950's knitting patten -pose and outfit were classics of that genre (come to think .. perhaps that was her previous career?).

Oh well, glad to see she is consistent in one area at least - she's still deluded.

lavlour is great tories are poo said...

"As far as spying goes, I keep saying it & so here goes again!
We are constantly being watched, from how much electric we use in our houses to what we buy on our credit cards, I am quite into computer security but I wont even scare you with how much your watched online & how you can do NOTHING to stop it!"

I can see 42 days in a cell with osama bin forgotton on the horizon for me then. Honest Gordon I love you realy! The horse porn is my wifes. Honest!

Owl-like said...

"Nancy's stout said...
The Sun and The Mail are rarely fit to line a parrot's cage but that doesn't mean they are always wrong. Watching PT and the like rage at the dying of their light is a pitiful spectacle.

June 24, 2008 12:32 PM"

A pitiful spectacle?
You're being far too generous.

I think it's a Hoot!

labour still great tories still poo said...

See i'm so scared I can't even spell labour right.

aphasia, the last recourse for the terminally vague said...

I see you managed 'poo' ok.

labour still great tories still poo said...

I always manage a poo ok!

Nurse! a cork. Quickly! said...

It's the fear.

Anonymous said...

Guido, time to REPLAY the Littlejohn knock down of dear Polly Flinders on Question Time!

P L E A S E

screaming shits said...

Forget it nurse i've poo'd everywhere! Get me some andrex and a loofer!

Anonymous said...

Then she can always jump on a plane and hide away in her expensive Italian or is it French Villa -the rest of us have to stay back here and suffer from G Brown and his pals

Fucking delicious! said...

Who let the fucking children on to the site; 45govt et al I mean, of course.

and on the subject of the 40% drop in house prices this year in t england's post; was I not mocked by the intellectual pigmies on here for predicting 30% not so long ago? Fucking idiots; must have gone to the gordon Broon school of economics. Twats.

Happy negative equity to y'all...

Fucking delicious!

45govt said...

Fucking deluded - you were indeed mocked, mainly for being a Scotch up-his-own-arse cunt. On house prices you were/are right, and about time time too I reckon.

Still awaiting your grand plan for the new Scotchtwat leadership contest. Whoodja fancy then Mr deluded, from your extensive cunt-list?

bob said...

Anagrams for Mary Louisa Toynbee:

'A Notable Misery You'

or my favorite (look up sybarite)

'A Sybarite Looney Mu'

Anonymous said...

Newmania said...
" She is of course the niece of Lord Biddle of Wibble ..."

Who is this ennobled uncle?

"Her own children attended Public school."

Her step-children attended Public school but I don't think hr own children did.

mel gibbsons brave arses said...

45govt is playing a fucking blinder today. Bitch slaps Fucking Deluded! with one almighty twatting of a post.
Is it lunchtime yet in Scotchland? Time to eat your mother out if it is.

Dennis said...

Anon. 1.00 p.m.

For you and anybody else who wants to review the Littlejohn Putdown.

As they say in America, enjoy!

some english bloke said...

Cheers Dennis.

There was me thinking that Polly had changed her spots when she jumped upon the anti-multi-culti bandwaggon some while ago. Clearly I was wrong.
Polly luv, the only thing we really have to moan about is that we have another 2 years of your lot to put up with ( unless the BETFAIR topic above is correct ) before, hopefully, Dave and his crew can start wholesale reduction of the police RIPA nanny-state that you have introduced. ( He probably won't but at least we can enjoy looking forward to it).

dick the prick10:25 AM
Yes, the anti-booze ads are very irritating, as are the TV license and motor-cycle tax ones with the stupid rrrrrrev noises and the one with some dippy bint trying to bribe me with " thirty quid, in yer 'and !" to take up something called Adult Learning Credit or somesuch.

Crap, paternalist, theatening, unamusing, ancient cliche ridden adverts from a crap, paternalist, threatening, cliche obsessed, unamusing administration well past its' fuck off date.

sockpuppet said...

Blogger Dick the Prick said...

I assumed she was related to Arnold Toynbee who had Toynbee Hall named after him?


Yep. She's the daughter of Phillip Toynbee. Incidentally, Robert Conquest knew how to deal with the Toynbees, penning the little ditty

One cannot, when dealing with Toynbee,
Just pay him back in his own coin, be-
cause talking such piss
would come rather amiss,
So how would a kick in the groin be?

Iranian fries anyone said...

Pretty Polly is so like our Iranian mullahs. They are so content with their beliefs which are right and can spend their days condemning apostates and girls who laugh or like Pot Noodles.

Pretty Polly sips her Chianti, laying on her lounger, tapping on her Asus, looking out over the rolling plains of Tuscany - oh dear, why are they all so miserable in England when life is so wonderful.

"Where is that servants bell - I want another bottle. It's so hard having a social conscience."

Phoenix Park said...

@ Fucking Delicious 1.17 and 45govt 1.26 -

I don't get it... are the Scottish exempt from the house price crash as well as education fees and all the other shit we get?

Have I missed something?

45govt said...

phoenix park - you don't get much of a property boom in a country with 66,000 nett tax-payers in a population of 5 million. So when McCunt referred to no boom or bust, he must have been referring to that great northern council estate, home to fucking deluded.
Mr deluded thinks that if/when they get control of "jockland's" oil, and they have to support themselves on it - that with the product of sticking the Jock tongue up the arse of the EUSSR, that Jockland will become a land of milk and honey, rather than vomit covered street corners, and wife-beating rituals.
That is why he is fucking deluded!

Phoenix Park said...

Oh right so Fucking Delicious is so deleriously happy he won't be in negative equity because he lives in a shit-hole council flat? That's like a eunich laughing at the guy who got crabs. I thought it was another one of those Robin Hood, rob from the brits to give to the scotch, bail outs dreamt up by the McCabinet.

peeved said...

I read the toy trollop for only the second time today - seduced by Guido's reference to her. There will not be a third time.

Guido if you must refer to her in future will you please include Mr Littlejohn's classic QT response to her as an antidote. Thank you.

Anonymous said...

sockpuppet said...
"Blogger Dick the Prick said...

I assumed she was related to Arnold Toynbee who had Toynbee Hall named after him?

Yep. She's the daughter of Phillip Toynbee. "


She is the great-great-niece of Arnold Toynbee.

Tuscan Tony said...

In an idle moment between pints I have established that an anagram of 45's fave Scotch commenter is:

I, E Coli dick fungus

Interesting.

Elby the Beserk said...

@Newmania said...

//
In the interests of neutrality the BBC had her in charge of Social Affairs for a few years in the 90s an appointment roughly equivalent to having Nigel Farrage in charge of European comment.
//

It was during this job that she earned her soubriquet of "The Eternal Flame". Whilst all around her went out to find and report stories, our Poll, being too important ... never went out.

Anonymous said...

Pollytosh moans? Does she ever do anything else?

Tho’ does she ever moan for the right reasons?

mitch said...

when McCunt referred to no boom or bust, he must have been referring to eds body it should be "no more bum or bust" see he is a smeg slurping butt monkey after all.

45govt said...

Tuscan Tony:-

"News as it happens, Tuscan Tony, live (just) from Zumerzet"

I thought you seemed to have more time than usual on your hands!

"I, E Coli dick fungus" -
fucking delicious!

Have a Coates for me.

Anonymous said...

Phoenix Park 3:30 PM
said...

" Oh right so Fucking Delicious is so deleriously happy he won't be in negative equity because he lives in a shit-hole council flat? That's like a eunich laughing at the guy who got crabs."

LOL Thank you PP, made my day worthwhile.

She's 'avin' a laff said...

"All new research here and abroad shows how inequality diminishes wellbeing and makes people unhappier. Labour should be explaining these basic facts, persuading voters that it need not be so. Recapturing that postwar progressive optimism is what Labour's for." .................the woman is totally divorced from reality. .

She and others of the liberal left cannot comprehend how much Brown and Labour are detested by whole swathes of the country stretching from the Midlands to the Home Counties for what they have done to their living standards and aspiratons of them and their children over the past decade and as the economy gets worse, helped by Brown's incompetent management over the same period more and more people are of that opinion. Littlejohn speaks for more people than Toynbee ever has or can ever hope to.

Cardinal Martini's cocktail olive said...

If Quentin Letts and Richard Littlejohn fancy coming out

Is there something you're not telling us Guido?

Fucking delicious! said...

House prices in Edinburgh are rising at a somewhat meager 5% just now. They won't fall, and we here won't experience negative equity as you will in england. Scotland as a whole has prices rising at 1%. England?

BTW, my mortgage is paid off, so I will not face negative equity.

Now, brace yourselves for really stormy economic weather and free-falling house prices in england. Tough times ahead for you chaps; perhaps you might consider applying for Scottish citizenship when finally we Scots become Independent. About 2011 I'd say...

And remember this; Scotland is a paradise in this hell-hole of a union. And the oil is ours.

Fucking delicious!

mitch said...

you can make Scotland into a paradise but you will still have gordon snottwieler brown so thanks but no thanks.

welsh wanker see boyo said...

Is the online love in between 45govt and Fucking Delicious! still on? Jesus, is nothing sacred anymore?

Ghost of Ian Smith said...

Ive said it before, and I'll say it again,
Theres only two good things come out of Scotland, The road and the railway.

Anonymous said...

Who the FUCK is paying Toynbee £117,000 a year?

Whoever it is, should join Gordon in the Loony bin.

stop blowing the bag pipes out yer arse cunt said...

Fucking Dlicious:

"BTW, my mortgage is paid off, so I will not face negative equity."

So it should be you drunken old cunt. Even if it wasn't you'll be popping your clogs soon. Nearly 60; fuck in hell you must be the oldest jock living!

stop blowing the bag pipes out yer arse cunt said...

Fucking Dlicious:

"BTW, my mortgage is paid off, so I will not face negative equity."

So it should be you drunken old cunt. Even if it wasn't you'll be popping your clogs soon. Nearly 60; fuck in hell you must be the oldest jock living!

T England said...

I think those up in Scotland who think they are going to get away with anything economically are living in wonderland!
From what I can make out we, & I mean Britain as a whole, have about three & a half years before things start to pick up, I come to this conclusion like this!

We are about two years financially behind America, America will be in recession for about another eighteen months.
As we follow Americas lead, that makes three & a half years.

The thing is though! America up until now has had it rough but unlike us Brits America has been able to dig into the piggy bank & dish out some cash for its people to spend, this money comes to an end in July & then what! Will things get worse? On top of that you have regional banks around America that are really starting to struggle to survive, how will this affect Americas recovery?

Those who want to see the up side of things point to businesses still doing roughly the same amount of business, this may be true but this business that is going on is only worth half as much, in many cases, as it once was! How does that affect how quickly economies recover?
And of course on top of every thing we have oil prices that, if you want to be really gloomy, say could rise to above a hundred & fifty dollars a barrel.

Oh! & if your wondering how I came to the eighteen months for America coming out of recession, it took a lot of watching the right financial programme & listening to the right arguments at the right time!

PS :- )
The 40% house drop is the worst forecast over three to five years in the arguments that I have seen.
So far I have seen the normal channels saying house drops from twenty five to thirty five percent as recently as today on channel four.

Anyhow!
Just thought I’d back up my earlier post ;- )

Anonymous said...

Toynbee is a sanctimonious old cow. She should get a proper job suited to her abilities. Like cleaning public lavvies.

Anonymous said...

So fucking delicious reckons house prices in Scotland won't fall. I've heard some shit in my time but, really, fuck off, they'll collapse in exactly the same fashion as they will in England, Wales and Ireland.

Boy, there really are some arseholes in the world!!

pissed off and tired said...

I thought about leaving a comment over there but realised there was no point.

Poor vacuous Polly's mind was made up many years ago.

Odd how she despises the poor, though, seeing as she is supposedly a Socialist. On £11,117 a fucking year plus all the rest?

pissed off and tired said...

Shit. Too tired to type that was £117,000 a year. Though she is WORTH 11,117 a fucking year.

Roger Thornhill said...

Polly earns £117k for her column? "earns"? No, Polly is PAID £117k, which is something else entirely.

Anonymous said...

Polly was married to the late Peter Jenkins who was a first rate journalist - alright he wrote for the Guardian & ST.

She now shares her duvet with the odious David Walker who worships at the public sector shrine that is the Guardian on Wednesdays. Did't David Walker's wife make a bitter complaint agin Polly over the 'theft' of her hsuband?

But there are all shite.



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