Saturday Seven Up
If you were not one of the 83,914 visitors viewing 306,114 blog pages over the last seven days, here are the seven most popular stories that you missed:
- Cuts, Lies and Videotape
Flashback to Fraser Nelson pleading with the Prime Mentalist to tell the truth.
713 Comments. - Bonkers in the Bunker
News of the bunker’s own Eva Braun, Kirsty McNeill.
645 Comments. - Pound Whacked After Mervyn King Admits : QE Isn’t Working
Mervyn entering the monetary twilight zone.
562 Comments. - Friday Caption Contest (Wales & Scotland Edition)
Some of the comments were actually quite funny, winner to be announced.
452 Comments. - Sunlight Reports Baroness Scotland to UK Border Agency
She of course now says she reported herself, afterwards.
400 Comments. - Lose the Loser : Harriet 4 Leader!
Onwards to a Harman led Labour Party comrades.
424 Comments. - Baroness Scotland Has No Defence Unless She “Checked and Copied”
Guido highlighted that the “not knowingly” defence offered was actually no defence at all.
377 Comments.
You’re either in front of Guido’s blog, or you’re behind…
Reminds me of the old joke, why do NASA drink Sprite…..
KHUMMING FRON 8EHIND
do you get modded for writing 1st?
Only if you actually are 1st
Or 2nd????
Only if you’re 3rd.
Or on message.
Guido – btw – do you want the photos of Lembits plane?
The pics of the cheeky girl secretary will do.
get back in your fucking box phil.
you are far too gobby phil, pipe down you titfuck.
Feck orf Bottom Boy.
phil, you are safe now, your boyfriend anticitizen has turned up to save you!
You is da only batty boy on ere, innit titfer?
TaT was a gay cinema usher!
Must have had a Saturday matinee experience in the dog-end.
Got the sack because the batteries in his torch kept running out for some reason.
It’s not pretty – because old wonky faced lembit is drooling all over her short hand –
Is she a relative of Jeremy Beedle?
what if you aint in front or behind guidos blog does that make you a fence sitter ?
My people are in front, behind, to the side and somewhat to the other side.
If it is true that “Lib Dems Create Anti-Tory Attack Unit” is it not our duty to point out the the obvious that Clegg is a useless lightweight lanky streak of piss.
If has slept with “no more than 30 women” there must be genuine stories out there. There must also be some real heavyweight mingers on his list
look if had shaged clegg would you shout it from the roof ?
At least he sleeps with wimmin. Makes a change for a liberal.
said the wanker.
Said Bottom Boy.
said the wanker’s boyfriend.
say de batty boy innit
you need a `confidential` chat with Andrew MacKay to make progress in this area.
Ian Kirkbride is doing quite well – great mates with Mark.
Bit like the 5-a-day fruit and veg policy – luckily for Gordon, only 1-a-day this week!
Interesting article-
Professor Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research said US bank loans have fallen at an annual pace of almost 14pc in the three months to August (from $7,147bn to $6,886bn).
“There has been nothing like this in the USA since the 1930s,” he said. “The rapid destruction of money balances is madness.”
The M3 “broad” money supply, watched as an early warning signal for the economy a year or so later, has been falling at a 5pc annual rate.
Similar concerns have been raised by David Rosenberg, chief strategist at Gluskin Sheff, who said that over the four weeks up to August 24, bank credit shrank at an “epic” 9pc annual pace, the M2 money supply shrank at 12.2pc and M1 shrank at 6.5pc.
“For the first time in the post-WW2 [Second World War] era, we have deflation in credit, wages and rents and, from our lens, this is a toxic brew,” he said.
It is unclear why the US Federal Reserve has allowed this to occur.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/6190818/US-credit-shrinks-at-Great-Depression-rate-prompting-fears-of-double-dip-recession.html
With reference to the Mentalists policies:
“He is not a monetary economist, however, and there are indications that the Fed has had to pare back its policy of quantitative easing (buying bonds) in order to reassure China and other foreign creditors that the US is not trying to devalue its debts by stealth monetisation”
Devalue its debts by stealth monetisation, ie reducing the pound to the worth of dogshit, couldn’t be our long term strategy could it?
With Labour they dont have a strategy apart from spend spend spend
I like gold
Gold is priced in dollars. We might have a fucked economy, but the American one is even worse. The pound tanked against the Euro more than the dollar this week. So what the heck strategy is the right one? Buy gold and you are hedging against our crapolla money with another material thats priced in another crap currency. All the major industrial countries are fucked. Theres no safe investment. Maybe its best to buy tankers of petrol. Thats useful ( unlike gold ), its guaranteed to go up in price because the government sees it as easy meat for taxation, and theres always lots of people want to buy it. And you could always make petrol bombs when the impending Zimbabwe meltdown arrives.
Gold? Too late mate.
Idiot. When you buy gold you exchange paper money for a hard asset. If the dollar craps out, gold still holds its value and in fact in dollar terms rises.
Commodities like oil and gold are refuges from inflation. It doesn’t matter what currency you price them in.
Disagree Guido. If the price of Gold was an absolute hedge against inflation it would have risen in dollar terms permanently and stayed up after the inflation of the 1970s. While it did rise in dollar terms to peak around $900 it fell back to stay at around $300/$400 for a long time until 2002. There is at present a precipitous rise, but there is no certainty, nor historic precedent for it reaching $1000 an ounce and staying there. Persons pouring into gold are creating a bubble and hoping that like house prices, they can only ever go up. It is a dangerous strategy for amateurs – like I expect most readers here are – to be buying gold at present prices.
All prices are relative and also demand divided by supply based.
I would go for Farmland over gold myself.
Also Acid Leaching technoogy for extracting Gold has made it easier to expand the Gold Supply, so it might not be quite the hedge some think.
Tankers of petrol? You probably mean crude oil.
And I’m pretty sure the US economy is in a better state than ours.
Depressed, you are wrong to compare Gold to a bubble like the housing market surely? The reason people invested in the propert bubble was to make a profit, it was speculative, the reason people are buying gold is to protect their capital, they do not expect to make a profit just to maintain the value of their capital relative to the value any given currency.
I am certainly not an economist, but surely Gold is a safe bolthole to prevent loss, not a vehicle for making profit
(Sorry this is the correct thread line for this reply)
You can’t eat gold. It may be of some use before the looming catastrophe that will hit the Western world arrives, it may make you a big profit within the next 2-3 years, but people are eventually going to cotton on (they already are) that money is actually worth nothing at all. Having all the money in the world and no bread will be useless. Commodities will become currency. Food, fuel, cooking utensils, weapons, ammunition. You stash your cash, I’m stocking up on sugar, rice, flour, oil (cooking and motor) and ammunition. A few other things as well, but that would be telling.
P.S.
@12 Scenic. Thanks for a well informed, succinct and accurate post.
Depressed is an idiot, Guido is right. Above any other consideration, ultimately, Gold is King!
The gold standard looks increasingly sensible.
Listen You “Barklays” I’ve Got 14 Paand Of “Bought An’ Sold”Round Me “Gregory See. An a Got anuver 3 Paaand On Me “Oliver Twist “
A NEW ERA OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION
The G20 can unite at Pittsburgh next week to secure recovery, growth and jobs, says Gordon Brown.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/6203580/A-new-era-of-global-economic-co-operation.html
………..Gordon Brown: world trade key to economic recovery: “We had set an ambitious agenda to restore stability, confidence, growth and jobs and it has now been backed by $1 trillion of support available to the global economy – a bold, co-ordinated response which the International Labour Organisation estimates has helped to save up to 11 million jobs worldwide”………………….
…………….. “So at next week’s G20 Summit in Pittsburgh concerted international co-operation is again required. To this end, I am proposing a new global compact to entrench economic recovery and secure stability, growth and jobs”…………….
REMINDS ME OF AN OLD SONG:
(There’s a pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
And I walk up and down ‘neath the clock
(By the pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
But I ain’t got a thing left to hock…………………
All by design Scenic, all by design…
Hey Suky,
I have read a lot of your posts recently, and I agree with almost all of them. Just because you are in the minority of people that have woken up to what is really happening doesn’t make you wrong. Don’t blink, you’re on the right track.
Thanks Viking – I dream that one day everyone will ‘see’ and ‘hear’ what we can…until then – well, we just carry on doing what we’re doing.
Love, Suke x ;0)
ps – I like this one: Swine-eleven, with respect, as always, to those who were murdered in cold blood on that awful day…
Depressed, you are wrong to compare Gold to a bubble like the housing market surely? The reason people invested in the propert bubble was to make a profit, it was speculative, the reason people are buying gold is to protect their capital, they do not expect to make a profit just to maintain the value of their capital relative to the value any given currency.
I am certainly not an economist, but surely Gold is a safe bolthole to prevent loss, not a vehicle for making profit
Its Satan wot done it, eh, Suky.
Your faith in the power of the devil is enormous, Suky!
If only you had as much faith in the Light as you do in the Dark!
Gold, you can buy it in euros in Switzerland with a nice assay paper and its very own number, is an insurance policy against massive, and horribly probable inflation.
You can read all about it in the Protocols Old Nick in “Behold a Pale Horse”, a copy of which is right in front of me on the table.
Did you hear the rumour that the red-shield gang always set a place for the ‘red guy’ at dinner, just in case he shows up…?
AEP’s article in the Telegraph caused a real stir. Almost all the comments were from US citizens. It seems the true, dire state of the US economy is being censored is in US MSM. They are seriously afraid of living in a totalitalarian state, hence the 2 million people march on Washington last week (barely reported in the media). The UK should wake up, too. It’s happening here.
“You’re either in front of Guido’s blog, or you’re behind…”
I’m coming up your rear.
Ooooooooooooooo matron!
great numbers Guido fucking great numbers.
and with the general election coming up your stats look like they are going to off the charts.
might be time to do an advertising rate review innit.
Of course he”ll have to dump some of his more eccentric and shit posters to appeal to the masses.
Why not take up a new hobby, like applying for jobs?
tat
Just give him a fuckin’ blow job and have done with it
sorry rimmers but I have checked the records but you two imbeciles, russ and sick of thieves are definitely not thick as thieves fan club members.
that means that you are not entitled to any direct face time with your hero.
I can understand how disappointed you retards must be about that but if you each fill out and submit a thick as thieves fan club application form then maybe one day, after your forms have been scrutinised and approved, you could be admitted. unfortunately, judging by your retarded comments, there is a high chance that your applications will be rejected because they indicate you are
TORY SCUM SLAGS FUCK OFF SLAGS TOP BOY SAYS DANCE YOU BITCHES
SATAN HAS THE BEST TUNES? FUCK OFF TOP BOY HAS GOT THE TOP TUNE
FUCK SATAN HE’S A CRIPPLE AND SO YOU ARE YOU TWO SLAGS DANCE BITCHES DANCE FOR TOP BOY YOU USELESS FUCKING C’UNTS!
and that dear reader is how you bash out two trolls brains at the same time.
Another cut ‘n paste job from previous comments just doesn’t make the grade anymore piss pot.
Must do better.
please refer to my previous comment dullard.
thankyou.
please refer to my previous comment dullard.
thankyou.
keep dancing russ you are my bitch now.
Face the truth nut job, Guido is gonna dump you. He doesn’t want any wackos gumming up the works when he goes main stream.
Ta ta tat.
russ?
you are not a russ at all. you are here nagging away like a fishwife going on and on and on.
I belive that the reason you are you are not taking your bashing at the hands of the great thick as thieves like a man is because you are not a man, anyone who has read our exchange will be able to see that you are clearly a woman.
why the fuck are you posting as a man under a man’s name?
that’s just plain fucking weird you crazy wacko.
what a lunatic.
be proud to be a woman russ, it is nothing to be ashamed of and I should add the great thick as thieves is 100% pro-lesbian so even if you are a lesbian everything is cool.
note to tory HQ: for fucks sake, stop sending women tory trolls to this place pretending to be men.
you dodgy c’unts!
Tat the Bottom Boy, you are clearly projecting again.
said the homosexual cinema usher.
More cut ‘n paste drivel just don’t hack it no more butt fuck.
You’re outta here.
Wow, Where did that come from?
Is that in your past too?
you a batty boy in both senses of de word mon
”homosexual””rimmers”
Report to re-education and diversity classes at 3 o clock please young tat.
Who Next Guido?
This Barren Baron Mr Caster Lookee likee is not wanting to jump in time to make the weekend news.
Who’s next on the shit list?
Hello
Anyone think we might get a impatial Bbc after the next election ?
No. The airwaves will be flooded again with special interests bleating about, “lack of resources” ……ie public sector, gold plated pension jobs.
And so the circle is complete
Re the Baroness Scotties
If she does not resign then fine but the law she created and pushed through against advice is dead and buried in the water.
If she resigns and goes as a result then the law is as strong as it could be and no one else (given the most senior law officer in the land resigned) will be able to claim any exceptions.
Not going to be that easy but I have a hunch the thing to do is ‘follow the money’. I would presume the char was a claimable expense so the government is paying for the illegal and and the char was supplied by an agency that seems a little lax in their security measures. I think that needs exploring as this will not be the only cleaner that is supplied by them I am sure.
Just saying……………….
The problem is that all of the 4000 laws these sharlatans have brought in are just like a mosquito net full of holes,for a start non apply to the Palace of Westminster,we will just have to wait until another illegal is caught (that’s a joke) and a do gooder takes the law to a jury.
By the by. Does anyone know if Derren Brown managed to control the nation last night?
I’m afraid I missed his scintillating act as I had an early night having had an exhausting week.
I’ve talked to several people this morning who say they haven’t heard of anyone getting stuck to their seats in front of the telly. Perhaps his promises aren’t any better than gordon’s then.
was it a bit like Mythbusters where you shit your pants after hearing “brown noise”?
I`m worried whenever Gordon Brown makes a noise, wondering what sort of shit he`ll drop us in next.
Didn’t work for us.
Yeah his suggestion was that weak willed suggestible people should get an early night as they were feeling exhausted, so it seems to have worked in your case.
BTW, the blog performance ratio improved by 79% due to your absence. Please keep it up.
It must only work on the 27% of the population who will still be voting Zanu-Lab.
I spoken to several people who’ve never even heard of Derren Brown let alone got stuck to their chairs by him
Gordon and dave two peas in the same pod only difference is Dave dont make me throw up whenever he speaks and he didnt fuck up the country
“Gordon and dave two peas in the same pod only difference is Dave dont make me throw up whenever he speaks and he didnt fuck up the country”
Dave doesn’t make you throw up YET, Going Mental, YET…
I totally agree that they’re one and the same – only the ‘front’ changes, the ‘machine’ behind stays the same….and the machine comprises corporate/banksters who dictate “government” policy.
YET!
Isn’t about time Gordon Brown made that call to Ocean Finance?
No they deal bad credit ratings not a fucked up one
He should try Northern Rock they used to do 125% Mortgages on self-certificated income figures
Last night Barry Humphreys brazened out the sheer embarassment of an entirely non-credible script, attempted repetitive and tired humour in front of a lacklustre and unconvinced mob of retired prostitutes, gay couples and the elderly, and effectively ended his career, shrilling to the backing of an expensive and unnecessary orchestra.
And all this in the country’s worst entertainment centre, only recently reprieved from long overdue demolition by the withdrawing of central government funding for its replacement. The Labour Party conference is about the only thing this ghastly concrete bunker is any good for and it seems entirely appropriate that this barren, spiritless, uncomfortable shit-hole should be about to once-more host the conniving and lying hordes responsible for the utter degradation of Britain.
When, next week, Brown leaps to the podium with a pseudo-energetic grin, he will be adressing his gang of fraudsters and control-freaks to the fading echoes of Les Patterson’s one-legged-lesbian-on-a-pogo-stick jokes. He will be stepping amongst red sequins shed from an overwrough costume covering a large pair of false dowager-breasts. The faint aroma of bulk-bought gladioli, so artlessly tossed by ‘Dame Edna’ into those of the bored audience who had not, like me, made an early dash for the doors, will linger irritatingly in the nostrils of the faithful. And the not so faithful.
I waited outside with impatient mini-cab drivers whilst this appalling performance (entitled somewhat provocatively “Last Night of the Poms”) dragged itself through a ridiculous 45-minute over-run.The first couple to burst out after the show’s bitter end showed evident relief on their faces as they stepped out into the grimy Brighton evening. “At least we’ll know next time” said one to the other.
This is the first return to Brighton for the Labour Party conference after the famous Walter Wolfgang incident in 2005. No-one heckled last night, but if anyone deserved to be arrested under ‘anti-terrorism’ powers then it should have been Humphreys. Despite the absence of vocal protest, there were a lot of stony faces leaving the theatre. Three young lads literally hurled themselves out of the building and into a waiting taxi, one shouting “That was the worst thing I have ever seen”. Let’s suspend judgement – I think the Brighton Centre is about to show us worse.
I have NEVER understood why the ineffable Humphreys person has been allowed to invade our TV screens. I can only suppose thar his “live” performance is worse by a factor of 100.
Agreed, what a carbuncle. Though I hope their taxi had good suspension… when you drive anywhere round here it’s easy to think you’ve blundered into a war zone of cratered roads. Still, there’s a council job going for someone to promote their ‘good works’ via facebook and the like. So that’s ok, eh.
Over at fox they say instead of msm it should be the fringe stream media , Do we have the same here?
Brown has destroyed the currency of the UK. The markets increasingly believe the pound will fall to parity with the euro early next year…….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/damianreece/6207769/With-pound-heading-for-euro-parity-Browns-legacy-will-become-clear.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/6207852/Pound-will-fall-to-parity-with-euro.html
7/7…..note to self: GET A LIFE
Our government in Westminster is run by a bunch of criminals, spivs, chancers and troughers. Literally. I do not know of one minister who is ‘clean’. The extent to which Labour has descended into this morass is beyond anything I have experienced in politics in the UK. This cannot continue.
As always, a timely reminder of our predicament just appeared on my daily ’round’ of the net:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
That pretty much sums it all up. Now, all we need are some military; police; lawyers; politicians; doctors; spiritually wise people; banksters and corporate ‘heads’ etc who wish to stop supporting this treason and wish to build a REAL compassionate ‘order’ for themselves, their families but in particular – all our children.
Suky, some of us, (ME) have been doing just that for most of our lives!
It is about walking the walk, not waffle!
Old Nick – yes, I know all about ‘walking the walk’…
What I obviously failed to get across was that we need ‘insiders’ who are brave enough to also ‘walk the walk’ instead of enabling the manipulators to realise the nightmare future that’s been planned for us for generations, which, before you accuse me of being negative, is going to fail anyway…
I’d just like us to stop the madness sooner, rather than later, to save a lot more unnecessary suffering around the world.
Bread and circuses, bread and circuses brought to you be Gordonius Titbrain Brownius in conjunction with the BBC.
By (must be catching). They are coming to take us all away Ha Ha, He He, to the funny farm….
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The Traitor(s) Infects The Body Politic So That It Can No Longer Resist
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A Timely Reminder
THOMAS CROMWELL
Non-Muslim girls at Whalley Range High School for Girls have been pressured into observing Ramadan by fasting from dawn to dusk. According to the Manchester Evening News, around 30 non-Muslim pupils took part. They had to wake up to have breakfast by 5.00am and were not allowed to eat or drink until 7.30pm.
Silly cows!
Resist this nonsense or die. It really is that simple.
or wofflle, even!
wiffle.
Back to the garden.
Laters.
Ps. Guido.
I never thought that I would be able to have some respect for some one from the hedge fund trade, but I also never imagined the day would come when I would buy gold
Am touched. From a curmudgeonly bugger like you.
Following the original song’s success, Jerry Samuels wrote and recorded two sequels to it, titled “I’m Happy They Took You Away, Ha-Haaa!”, (which is sung from the deranged singer’s wife’s point of view), and, much later, “They’re Coming To Get Me Again, Ha Haaa!” (which sees the original singer slipping back into madness after being released from the insane asylum).
Any similarities between the above and persons living or dead are purely coincidental.
Just like currency, gold is only valuable because people SAY it is of value. If they say it’s worthless it will be worthless.
(I Acknowledge the use of gold as a manufacturing/industrial material).
How profound!!!! What utter nonsense!!!!
South Sea Islanders used to say “Cowrie Shells are valuable, so we’ll use them as currency”