City Boycotting the Lefties at the Pink ‘Un
The Financial Times has just announced a year-on-year circulation fall of more than 14% in the UK. The paper now sells more copies overseas than in the UK – which may explain its fanatically europhile stance. Whereas the core UK readership is from the eurosceptic City and business community, the overseas readership is euo-establishment. Increasingly commuters to the Square Mile are turning to City AM if they are casual consumers of financial news or, if they are need-to-know types, the revamped and strengthened Wall Street Journal.
Allister Heath, the editor of City AM, is a free-marketeer and the paper reflects the values of the readership which toils in the capitalist heart of the economy. The paper is prospering.
Two refugees from the Labourgraph, Patience Wheatcroft and Iain Martin,* have been drafted into the Wall Street Journal in London to strengthen the European edition. They don’t insult their readers, decry their investment banking and hedge fund employers or call for socialist solutions to our economic problems. Murdoch has consequently propelled the WSJ into becoming what is now the single biggest selling newspaper in America and also the only growing newspaper in America. As the FT’s circulation shrinks further perhaps it will decide not to support the Labour Party for a fifth general election in a row. Yes, the Pink ‘Un even backed Neil Kinnock to the huge annoyance of the readership.
Guido still reads the excellent FT Alphaville blog, but if he wants to read left-wing prognostications on the economy, he’ll buy Tribune…
*Iain Martin has started mocking the lefties at the FT.
Is the WSJ gonna charge for content?
The dead tree press has no future. The interweb is the way forward!
Cameron Backs Away From Call to End Quantitative Easing ‘Soon’
Hahahaha
Phillip Hammond Conservitude Treasury gob likes a bit of QE (quantitative easing) too.
“What has got Britain through the recession so far has been the activist monetary policy at the Bank of England, keeping interest rates low, supporting the economy through quantitative easing,” Hammond said.
Hahahaha
The Tories backed QE but not the Fiscal Stumulas ie the VAT cut!!
Free papers certainly reflect the a piggy City who want free bail-outs for their incompetence and free Bonuses for wrecking the economy
Quantitative Easing is smashing my savings, and giving it to all the feckless shits that ran up massive debts on overly cheap credit on cards, and mortgages.
Those that ran up the debt should pay it, not those that were actually prudent with our money.
Now savers have nothing to buy in the ashes of a recession, and all the bad debts and bad businesses are still going to hang around like a bad smell to bite back all over again. By then, there will be no savers left to raid, and China WILL NOT buy your shit government bonds as the UK’s will be downgraded to junk bond status.
The Tories are just the same illiterate economic bastards as New Labour and the Liberals, who also support QE. The UK is fucked for much more than a generation.
Your post would be more intelligent without the maniacal laughter at the end, which strongly suggest that you are posting from a psychiatric hospital.
Are you?
Hammond must have watched this video – it’s a brilliant parody of Queen and getting at Brown
Guido – check this out! It’s ace!
QE will simply create another boom and bust. Cameron is wrong, Brown is wrong and we are all going to suffer in the long term. MB, I suggest you avail yourself of an enlightening book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Keynes-Wrong-Hunter-Lewis/dp/1604190175/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256749739&sr=8-1
Hands up who’s read Keynes?
Ok, thought not.
Keynes + New Labour = economic ruin
Didn’t Keynes advocate Governments saving cash during the boom times to reinflate the economy during recessions rather than pissing all your countries money up against a wall?
Keynes also thought that government should be limited to 25% of GDP!
yep, the BoE is the UK’s SIV, handily reducing the yield on gilts by 40 to 100 basis points until the election.
Soon the BoE owns half of all traditional guilts. Luckily for the BoE’s staff (and in the end for taxpayers) the pension fund is a bit more clever since it holds onto its linkers – says it all really.
Cameron, Osborne and Hammond all in favour of QE (quantitative easing). Having derided it, now that’s a U turn. They’ve been wrong at every step, good to see them starting to see sense. But probably too little too late, they’ve made real chumps of themselves.
yeah, the only possible reson for a papers falling sales is because neoconservaties think they are communists and being beastly to the Bankers.
Right.
Contradicts all your other stories about the dead tree presses falling relevance but never mind
Murdoch will be pleased
A gold star for you young man!
Like the spelling of Gilts!
Cameron has one major economic weakness. It is Called Gideon George Osborne.
His weakness is a shortage of credibility among serious economic opinion. Also polling suggests public opinion of him is mixed nut generally negative.
Unfortunately, “serious economic opinion” is dominated by Keynesianism, even amongst so-called free marketeers.
Huhne features when are you going to learn that Cameron is not in fkg government, you wank piece. It does not matter what he says in opposition by the time he gets in Brown scortched earth policy will see us overtaken by Ethiopia.
Certainly with his immigration policy we have more fkg ethiopians than ethiopia.
Waste of space
Ok, Cameron, Osborne and Hammaond have done a U turn on it though. Having been against QE (quantitative easing) they are now in favour of it.
Ok?
So MB (imbecile) you are now saying that Cameron and Osborne are economic geniuses are you?
You, MB, are an imbecile.
They are very slow on the up take.
They are not geniuses, does that help?
All clear now?
Good
Cameron has not done a U turn on the economy. Cameron like Blair knows nothing about economics and just says what he is told to say, unfortunately it is Gideon Osborne who is telling dave what to say and Gideon changes his mind every other day.
They would do better to say nowt and let Gordon lose the election rather than them trying to win it. If Labour had a decent leader, team Cameron would be fucked. Fortunately for the Tories, Labour have not even got a decent potential leader.
note to MB: without soap no soapy titwank.
innit.
oh, and the FT are a bunch of fucking communists.
commie bastards.
ofcourse it all went downhill after they allowed that useless fat c’unt ed balls to publish his communist bilge on the pages of the previously respected pink ‘un.
and look has what has happened to the Thunderer as well.
the whole world has gone to shit really, hasn’t it?
I think our press has been irredeemably compromised by the illegal wars we have engaged in.
ditto bbc, ditto sky.
they have all sold their souls to the devil and now he has come to collect.
good.
If they were Ethiopians it wouldn’t be so bad they are proud and decent people — instead we have Islamo-fascist Somalis.
I read marketoracle
Coo coo Master Baiter.
no No NO!
Oh you patHetic COWARD!
Love ONH
I read somewhere that the best-selling newspaper in the US is the Wall Street Journal; in Britain it’s the News of the World. Does that say anything?
Country is Knackered. No one has addressed the causal factor. Yes you guessed it WAR. Very expensive business ask the Chinese Japanese and Russians who are lending the US the trillions to Wage it. Ha Ha what a way to fu-k the West
Forgot to say why don’t we Privatise everything and charge the businesses and the general public double what they would pay any where else in the world for their Energy. Water. Rail Fares. Etc. Oh Sh-t they already have Conned us on that one. I thought Con tricks where against the LAW, Obviously not from Fraudster politicians it aint
Is anyone really surprised at the FT’s lefty stance. Pretty sure that Ed Balls was a journo there at some point.
And the FT online is superb; I have subscribed for some time and no longer buy the hard copy.
Osborne is more interested in short-term tactics
Published: October 27 2009 23:42
From Mr Alastair Campbell.
Sir, If you have a strategic weakness, it seems odd to act systematically to exacerbate it. Yet that appears to be the approach of George Osborne, the shadow chancellor.
His weakness is a shortage of credibility among serious economic opinion, not to be confused with media opinion, which went strangely overboard in praise of his speech to the Tory party conference, or public opinion, which polling would suggest has a mixed but generally negative view of him.
One of the reasons for his strategic weakness is the sense that he is more interested in short-term political tactics than he is in long-term economic policy, a problem the effect of which is exaggerated by his dual role as shadow chancellor and general election campaign co-ordinator. His initiative on curbing bankers’ bonuses, which fell apart on minimal scrutiny, is but the latest to draw fire from City and business leaders. It was attacked not for being tough, but because it was not thought through.
He suffered a similar credibility hit a few weeks ago when brandishing documents he claimed to have been leaked, which in truth had been published at the time of the last Budget. The media mini-frenzy was a short-term tactical gain at the expense of strategic credibility. Likewise the constantly changing figures on savings from his welfare reform proposals do little to enhance his standing.
All these mistakes reveal a trend, which will become a problem during the heat of a campaign, when his party’s positions on the handling of the economic crisis may come under greater scrutiny than they did at the time.
Conservatives point out that Gordon Brown also performed a significant election role alongside his duties as shadow chancellor from 1994-97, and again as chancellor in 2001 and 2005. But as I know from sometimes bitter experience as Tony Blair’s press secretary and campaign strategist, Mr Brown was often reluctant to engage in anything which he felt put at risk core credibility on the economy.
In appointing Mr Osborne to both positions, David Cameron perhaps reveals his own weakness in failing to differentiate between strategy and tactics. It might be sensible for the Conservative leader to relieve Mr Osborne of one of his two posts. I sense that the City would like it to be the shadow chancellorship. The Labour party will be hoping that’s the one he keeps.
Alastair Campbell,
London NW3, UK
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/23a63bc8-c352-11de-8eca-00144feab49a.html
You can say what you like about him but it was your lot who has destroyed our short term future, our image and our image in the world.
Bunch of crookes. Take your pirate ship and cast off somewhere else, preferably the continent of europe
I told him to write that
Don’t forget the other piece
Campbell calls Osborne to task over credibility
http://m.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c7e0f1a-c334-11de-8eca-00144feab49a.html?catid=88&SID=1fc61ddf3aeb3160fba6fd6540d6594b
Ouch!
Come on Master Coward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, dimwit.
Yes, Osborne is not much good. Hammond is better but he wasn’t Dave’s fag at Eton and didn’t help Dave to become leader of the party.
On the other hand, ‘not much good’ would be a great improvement on the past 12 years.
Go back to your street corner Mr. Campbell!
Right.
Remind me of Campbell’s career, sports journalism wasn’t it? Before he branched out into plagiarizing or sexing up dodgy dossiers or persecuting Dr. David Kelly.
I have had enough of seeing this scum’s name, I wouldn’t trust the man to tell the time of day let alone take his advice on the economy or the choice of Cameron’s Chancellor.
George Osborne has called it right all along, the need for public service cuts, using taxpayers money to shore up RBS/Northern Rock, and the outrage of public money being used to pay bonuses in failing publicly owned banks — if they’re that confident take the shares — they might be a little more careful with the bank’s and ultimately their own finances than they have been.
Suzie you are too nice. He was writing wank pieces in a grubby little porn magazine which I think was called Forum. But that was respectable by comparison with intimidating the lobby, eviscerating the once-noble BBC, editing the dodgy dossier etc. Nobody should ever believe a word he says on any subject.
It does.
I hate the way Labour politicians quote the FT as if it is gospel. It is a very left-wing paper, only slightly less batty than the Guardian. Neither of them are finiancially viable at the moment.
That’s very funny in the week that the Daily Mail has lost the battle of London.
Starting to get the impression that YOU Master Coward have lost this battle!
Truly PATHETIC!
I wish we weren’t just rude to MB all the time.
Ok, dimwit
The thing is a FUCKING COWARD, Sir William.
He made the mistake of saying thaT I am scared of him!
NOW we see who is the PATHETIC COWARD
There’s no reason to argue with that.
But, try a line, a hook and bait.
Lesson over, dimwit.
lesson begin: when you know masterbaiter is a bird it is difficult to take the foul mouthed old slapper seriously any more.
innit.
the truth is the FT is not really a left wing paper. It’s an excellent read if a little anti-Tory at the moment.
Wish DT would bring back Iain Martin. He’s infinitely preferable to the anodyne Ben Brogan.
If you want to write about backing the wrong horse…..how about Jonah’s backing of Holy Tony I, for el Presidente of the EUSSR?
With a bit of luck, the curse will do it’s worse……..
If the curse’s previous effects are anything to go by he’ll soon be on trial in The Hague
And William Hague for PM!
Huzzah – 14 pints all round…
George Mombeo seems to think that if that scoundrel Tony Blair were to become ‘President’ of Europe he would be very vulnerable to being arrested taken to court and tried as a war criminal. I hope that’s true, then we will win, more or less, either way.
Oh god yes, let it be true
The thought had occurred. Lure the bastard out of his bunker in the US or Berkshire and then instead of the coronation, slap the leg irons on him… he signed up to the Court of Human Rights, unlike Bush.
Gordon has an amazing ability to make the wrong decision at exactly the wrong time.
He never fails to turn a fairly mild problem into a major policy crash. Like the biscuit thing.
At PMQ’s he even said that protecting the TA budget was THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
Well why did he want to cut it then? He does so many u-turns he doesn’t even know himself which way he is facing. That’s why he’s campaigning for Blair. He’s just too dizzy to think it through.
It was the MoD that wanted the cut so they could buy more bang bang toys and that. There’s not much baksheesh in weekends away for the boys, is there?
We will fight them on the weekends…etc.
Brown is a buffoon. He would not even know how to piss in a corner of a bucket
Bang bang toys, baksheesh.
Muddy weekends for accountants, no baksheesh.
ah, now you have dropped that acid tab you are making much more sense you titfuck.
hope you have a really, really bad trip.
really.
I actually have to say MB should be less chastised for giving a version of events that doesn’t match the “house special”, it seems like a considerable proportion of regular posters appear to be somewhat disturbed…
I see far less upset caused by the neo-na zi postings here…
no no, I bash the nazi trolls as well.
and the tory trolls. but I really enjoy smashing bn p and new labour trolls skulls in most of all.
you must be new here to make such an ignorant comment.
tell you what: keep your big mouth shut you gobby c’unt until you know what you are talking about.
thankyou.
you fucking retard.
Done any military service have you? If not dickhead, I suggest you ponder the fact that what was being cut was training which could have helped the ‘weekend’ soldiers survive a tour in Helmand.
They also complete their basic training at weekends. Several have been killed in afghanistan.
I see smearing now extends to the military. Well done -you really are tuned in to the public mood
If it’s that amusing, please feel free to pop over to Afghanistan and do a little patrolling.
I always thought you were an odious piece of work and today you have exceeded my expectations. You must be proud of yourself.
Rest assured very few others are.
Bang, bang,
Anyone that enjoys being terrified hasn’t been in a war.
The last lying cheating scumbag actor-politician would be President of Europe was also responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents. His name: Adolf Hitler.
Nice point. Although Adolph wasn’t responsible for 600,000 civilian deaths before he got the job.
So what is the shortest term for a British Prime Minister?
Brown is obviously trying to ensure he does not hold the record in modern times (Douglas Home?).
We need to make sure he is out by the end of this week.
Perhaps spread a rumour that he is telling the TRUTH?
The shortest term for a British Prime Minister is ‘nit’.
Or ‘tit’.
NO!
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‘So what is the shortest term for a British Prime Minister?’
Oh a couple of days then the rope
ug
Tit the younger was the the shortest prime minister, he was only 1 foot 9 inches tall.
Gordon Brown is the only British prime minister to fart at Adam Boulton.
Adam Boulton would be the ugliest prime minister if elected, and Andrew Marr is the only Huhne with big ears. End of!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom
A lot of the early ones seem to have lasted less than a year. He looks on track to last about as long as Neville Chamberlain did.
Looking at him today, he looked manic, I think Cameron should have really put the knife in today. did he ask all six questions does anybody know?
Just take it that someone does know.
SAID THE COWARD
Agree with everything you say…
Labour should have got rid of him, the problem with our democratic representatives is that in NewLabour’s case it’s been much more of a dictatorship, a small-scale example of a stalinist regime, in which a loathed, paranoid man is staunchly defended by a bunch of idiots (the cabinet) of weak and fickle character whose own scheming and positioning causes none to act bravely and all to give up on the idea of “real” democracy in favour of a coup.
If the last decade is an advert of anything, it’s how socialist regimes run the course internally until they are both coseted in denial and completely cut off from the well-meant principles they initially believed in. It just ends up like a banana republic (think bunker mentality re: brown).
Which is why however much I dislike Cameron, I’m looking forward to the long-awaited day that we can get the fuck rid of this useless bunch.
However, George Galloway is an opportunistic, self aggrandising, narcissistic cnut, whose self-serving nauseating groveldom to a mass-murderer still makes me feel that he would be better placed working as a gimp.
“However, George Galloway is an opportunistic, self aggrandising, narcissistic cnut, whose self-serving nauseating groveldom to a mass-murderer still makes me feel that he would be better placed working as a gimp.”
True, also not much of a sense of humour:
fantastic.
Galloway is such a turd
I agree with all the above. I’m sick of tribal politics. We all have independent minds, just need the bravery to speak out. But politicians work like pack animals, they’re like hyenas, and they’re terrified to think for themselves. They don’t dare take a different line from the group.
As to George Galloway, he’s brave and articulate that’s true, but totally self serving, bigotted and grossly vain.
I don’t think he’s Brave, he’s just good at promoting himself as a pro-Islam “socialist” who is paradoxically a multi-millionaire, like most prominent socialists I can think of.
He’s like a brand that knows it will alienate some groups but is ideally targeted at others.
Re: Politiks
The problem (again) is that politicians resemble the least-democratic most authoritarian organisations where dissent is met with social alienation and no access to power, this is very primate for such a “lofty” organisation of “honourable gentlemen”, really what it is is a choice of 3 major parties all of whom promote people based on their ability to be submissive and adopt official policy wherever required.
Due to the “steep” heirachical system in the party with an (excluding red-haired females) alpha-male and several powerful allies this society exists in order to perpetuate control of a resource (us) in a manner that is sustainable i.e. it manages its environment in order to prevent collapse of the ecosytem (electoral failure) a HUGE lack of ambition to change/modernise is entirely due to the system being very satisfactory for the dominant party.
So if you (as leader) place people for election primarily for their desire to be submissive you end up with people in power becoming entirely self-serving, miliband (loathe him) knows it would be better if he replaced Brown for Labour, but he wouldn’t want to damage his own future career and inherit power at a time that it looks like the electorate will abandon the party to some degree anyway. In sequence, lower-ranking MP’s don’t want to risk THEIR future chances for promotion as junior ministers. It’s a game of risk management where the only people you ever promote are ones who you can be somewhat sure will never (while in office) do anything to damage your own elevated position, hence the entire House being very little other than a troughing, useless, talentless, idea-starved bunch of venal, self-obsessed arse-mongers two of the best examples being “Gorgeous George” and our beloved Comerade Brown.
Which is why even if Cameron is a similarly uninspiring snivelling tit, he does soon at least have a small window to be ambitious before the usual processes take control.
Two things to make the electoral system better.
1) ALL HoC Votes to be anonymous, i.e. whips can’t control policy, must rely on anonymous democratic will of party.
2) Recall Laws.
Above, An intelligent, and accurate description of the present state of things! Depressing isn’t it?
Yeah, really depressing : (
There needs to be a way of getting people in to power whose views are genuinely inspirational without requiring them to pass through the vile and contemptable system of british party politics.
When you actually think of how few “great ideas” have happened in the last decade compared to the amount of spin we’ve had to sell them, we’ve been given nothing but the most average of services by people arbitrarily appointed (based on prior subservience) to be “experts” in ministerial roles that would benefit from real knowledge and skill…
How redundant is our system : )
We are part of an intelligent people, you wouldn’t think so would you? The political system has to be grossly at fault when the country lurches from crisis to crisis, and corruption is rife. Perhaps one has to sigh simply, and come to the conclusion that we belong to the human race, and are part of a flawed species.
Not Flawed so much as well adapted for primate life.
It’s when we don’t acknowledge our failings and honestly evaluate our personas that we end up with people who are capable of living in denial…
For what reason do you comment on this blog : )
A pretty good summary of Brown. Galloway does speak quite well, doesn’t he? Shame he’s such an awful leftie, though.
Incredible speaker, but also incredibly barmy.
hmm.. george galloway is one of the few MPs whose expenses and allowances are all in order so I am not having that, anonospaz.
can I just establish, have you just stated, anonymous, that you think mr galloway has a mental disorder, if so would you care to name exactly what that disorder is and would you like to provide evidence for making such a libellous statement?
you would be best advised to immediately retract that comment.
I understand that mr galloway is not slow to instruct his lawyers and so a full retraction would be in your best interests.
unless you want to be left with nothing but a pot to piss in, ofcourse.
Socialism IS a mental disorder.
I am a capitalist.
but for you to suggest someone’s political beliefs make them mentally disordered is of course a totally fascist statement to make.
DOH!
thick as thieves
Shouldn’t it be….
thick as shit?
dude, shut the fuck up, there’s no risk that I can see of libel action here, not least because as far as I understand, the server is OUT OF JURISDICTION.
Not to mention that the FT has quite a number of editors, including Samuel Brittan, who think high debt-to-GDP ratios pose no threat at all.
But don’t forget, in 1950 you needed over 14 swiss francs to buy 1 quid, now 1.67 francs. Switzerland has on average had lower debt-to-GDP ratios than the UK in the second halve of the last century and tackled debt through running budget surpluses, not through inflation.
Quite true. Darling likes to quote no problem debt to GDP piece to the press every once in a while.
Then he goes back to No 11, sits behind his desk and shits himself in terror.
It’s the real economy, stupid.
It started in Scotch_land
And you are a real COWARD!
Currently only Canada has a lower debt to gdp ratio than the UK.
MB, perhaps, but
UK’s structural, post-recession, trend-line-growth deficit is over 100 billion pounds a year, i.e. over 4,250 pounds per person working in the private sector.
This year and next the total deficit will be around 200 billion each year, i.e. 8,500 pounds per person working in the private sector.
EU’s worst case forecast for the UK’s debt to GDP ratio is 180%, i.e. 115,000 pounds per person working in the private sector.
And the UK’s average wage that has to fund a large chunk when it’s payback time: <25k
All the leading economies are in for a tough time.
There has been a major malfunction in the financial system, globally and it started in America.
Hahaha
Yo, let me give you some investment advice: FED only looks after US interests (as it should) and not after yours. Example: >4 CHF to 1 USD in 1970, now 1 CHF.
US and UK are addcited to both debt and inflation. Keep this in mind when deciding where you store your pension.
It started in Scotchland
“Currently only Canada has a lower debt to gdp ratio than the UK.”
Until you add in off balance sheet numbers like, PFI, unfunded public pensions, Network Rail, the bank bail outs, and a host of other items like nuclear de-commissioning etc.
Then the picture becomes dramatically worse than all of our major competitors. Brooks Newmark have calculated that the debt is around £ 86,000 per family so far and rising fast.
Your grandchildrens, children will be paying this mountain of debt back, all because Gordoom would not stop trying to borrow his way out of debt and could not face the reality that, he and his policies, have lead to utter failure.
AND YOU ARE A SAD COWARD
hahahahahahahahah
Difficult to compare as much of the UK’s debt stays off balance sheet.
Until some honest admission of the true debt levels takes place this is a pointless conversation. Taking all future liabilities into account, we are looking at 7 trillion quid.
When will the nuclear power station decomissioning liability be added? Do tell.
MB (imbecile) you are lying again (just like your master McDoom). Try looking at Australia or New Zealand.
So, MB, you have now proved yourself to be a liar as well as an imbecile. Want to go for a hat-trick?
Kanga
Roo
are you one of ed balls SPads?
you remind me of one of the collective clones of sycophants that he surrounds himself with in his plush £3 million pound newly redecorated office with islamic prayer room, sauna & massage table.
will you be back here after the election?
anon,
masterbaiter is a new labour war party woman troll who is paid to post.
she doesn’t believe the bullshit she writes. she merely attempts to divert attention from the more scummy things the new labour war and torture and occupation party has done.
what a c’unt, eh?
Hahahaha. A hollow laugh for MB.
It started in Scotland
And YOU are a low COWARD
Er Masturbator,
Many economies have much lower debt ratio than the UK.
Indeed some don’t have any debt.
Canada?!!!
Huge natural resources, most which have not even begun to be exploited, with more to come once the oil in the Arctic is tapped and North West Passage is navigable all year, half the population of the UK (33,592,700) and 15 x habitable land mass.
Not really comparable with a small over-populated island who’ve used up whatever we’ve had.
Sam Brittan – brother of Leon, a useless fat fuck of a Tory MP who was also an EU commissioner. So don’t expect any pro EU bias from that neck of the woods!
EU commisioner, eh? Is that right? Remember then that retired eurofiles lose all of their eurp pension if they question euro policy. (Kinda like blackmail)
Kinda like Dr. Kelly.
Have you seen the lefty shite that fills the IoDs Director mag?
The journalists who write for it are obviously bored with the idea of serving customer needs…
fucking lefty Institute of Directors and their socialist bonuses
You’re all wrong.
Wrong on the economy, wrong on the colour of the FT, wrong on everything I tell you.
I’m the greatest financial mind that ever walked the earth!
I’m never leaving office. Never you hear?
Getting on with the job, started in America, anything chocolate, Tory cuts, etc., etc., etc.
you forgot
“it’s the right thing to do”
Do you like my fetching fake stammer? It’s designed to dishonestly garner sympathy, and give me extra thinking time. N-n-n-neat, eh?
It’s the rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright thing to do.
If you’re a ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccocksucker.
I’ll be better when the f ucker finally shuts up for good.
Whining little shit!
Especially liked the cowardly timing of your answers at Pmq today.
And is it true you stink and are scared of lifts?
Did you hear Brown today at PMQ’s??
MMMMM Mr mmmmmmmm mr Speaker
and then a NEW one;
Mr Spoker –
he is so drugged up and junkied,they must just get him back to Downing Street and throw him down in the bunker while the rest of the SCABinet sit around upstairs looking thru the Guardian for a job paying loads of expenses.
Brown The Beast In His Bunker – caged and chained – let out on a Wednesday drugged up to his eyeball.
Like the poor lunatic woman who was locked in the attic in Jane Eyre. She eventually set the house on fire.
Lucy Kellaway is still worth reading.
I’m quite partial to Fawkes’ new friend Emily No Mates myself. Apart from the slightly disconcerting lip movement, a la Boycott, she’d be ideal for the page three Totty spot, posing provocatively with her lacross stick. All in the best possible taste , of course.
This is the future. The days of long words, complicated ideas and no pictures are over.
Let’s be honest they are a joke in the modern world, they seem to think like all failed past dogmas that hiding behind the values of fairness, equality and tolerance gives them a carte blanche right to act like idiots and excuses the utter unworkable bullshine they come out with or the huge index of crimes they commit.
Wall Street Journal
Hahahahahaha
There is a new Wallstreet movie coming out, as soon as everyone sees the brillance of Gordon Gekko, WSJ readership and sales will increase by at least 60%.
FT is the past fool. Wallstreet is the future.
Wall Street Journal is a joke an out and out joke.
you are a total fucking joke.
therefore you should be on the wall street journal site, not here.
GO THERE NOW !
stop wasting the good readers’ time MB with your propaganda bullshit.
you are not welcome here. you are a war crime apologist and should a court ever find you guilty of the crimes you are currently engaged in, of aiding and abetting persons under suspicion of carrying out war crimes to evade justice, then I would gladly hang you myself.
fuck off you silly old whore.
Puffin’ Billie,
Very flabby, out of steam again?
Pull in to the sidings, get the rings seen to.
Choo choo
with the authority of a court I would string you up without a second thought.
you fucking new labour war criminal apologist.
fuck off and poison someone else’s blog with your shit motherfucker.
FUCK OFF
you cloth-eared c’unt.
He wouldn’t hahahaha after that would he tat? Guido should ‘deal’ with him, because he is disrupting the flow, not because he disagrees with most on this blog. Hasn’t he got a more suitable home to go to? Somewhere where everyone agrees with him? He shouldn’t be allowed to disrupt the general thread.
10cc says Do the wall street shuffle
Only socialists in denial find it funny.Any predictions for the GE MB.I fancy a flutter and you seem to know about politics.
and so is a pathetic COWARD like you!
And you are an out and out COWARD
One interesting point
The future masters of this planet in China happen to read and apprea
One interesting point…
The future masters of this plant in China happen to read the WSJ and appreciate it (often quoted in the official media, etc)
As Lee Kwan Yu recently said, the greast man he ever met (in a long lifetime of politics and international affairs) was Deng Zao Ping…
And he realised after the debacle of communism that capitalism was the only way…
His successors continue on his path with 9% growth while the West fucks around with QE rather than making the people work…
MB – your comments are those of an insular and retarded public school boy…
Wall Street Journal from the makers of Fock Snooze and Da Sun.
Hahahaha
“eurosceptic City and business community”
Hmmmm……
It’s troo, it’s troo. The City is eurosceptic. UKIP get a lot of support from the City.
Their prospective leadership are also highly trained economists.
Commies…. bring back McCarthy
http://newslion.blogspot.com/
here here McCarthy now that was a person who got things done.
no that was McCartney
No, that was Lenin.
McCarthy brought Wolverhampton Wanderers up to top flight football
Guidiot the Oaf, what’s up FT too difficult?
How about citing a ‘leftie’ piece?
Masturbator, that’s your 9th tedious post here in about half an hour. Is you life really so vacuous? Run out of handkerchiefs?
I do hope he uses tissues.
MB’s paid, or else he’s mad, HAhahahahahahahahahahaha.
Make a point or keep schtum.
The Conservitudes have reversed their position on QE (quantitative easing) since their ‘Conference’ at the beginning of the month.
So now they think printing money is good idea.
They’re all in it together, aren’t they?
pay per comment deal you are on innit crackhead.
fuck the quality and up the quantity.
how much are labour HQ paying you to post this shit MB?
you wanker.
It’s the responses that count.
1, 2, 3,
a, b, c,
It’s not easy nor is it difficult.
I can’t wait till Nick Griffin becomes PM and i get paid per comment.
masterbaiter is a pay per comment new labour crackhead whore.
if she stopped taking heroin and crack she wouldn’t have to whore herself and her integrity by posting her shit pro-war comments here.
innit MB?
before you make any more comments on this blog we will have to deal with your drug problems masterbaiter.
I even got steve expat through his crack addiction and he is a scum tory.
and I think you are a total c’unt but I happen to believe it is your abuse of narcotics that makes you such an arshole but I will overlook those flaws and they will not divert me from making sure you get clean from your crack and heroin addictions too.
I will help you get your self esteem and integrity back MB. I swear to God.
you will never again have to sell soapy titwanks or write your shit propaganda here like a whore to make money: choose life instead MB, choose life you c’unt.
so let us begin your withdrawal treatment immediately, no time like the present innit.
kill or cure MB, kill or cure motherfucker.
it is the only way.
It is worth repeating:
Without decorum there can be no discourse.
Now go and get shunted somewhere.
I have the soap MB, all we need is a gallon of water and we are in fucking business love.
remember masterbaiter: without soap no soapy titwank.
I could do with a nice cup of tea first.
got any nice biscuits?
Brave words for Master COWARD!
iT IS WORTH REPEATING
MASTER BAITER IS A PATHETIC COWARD!
And this must be almost the 15th time that I have called Master Baiter a PATHETIC COWARD in the last 10 minutes!
FT isnt difficult ,its that they dont seem to be printing many these days.
Don’t be misled, pink is red. Just cancelled my copy, paying far too much for Keynesian nonsense.
But it goes my colour when you wipe your arse on it.
No, you’re wrong.
Every country in the world and every leader who ever lived agrees with me.
My policies are right. The Tories are wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong.
Just you wait til I win the next election, you’ll all see!
Brown is the new red. Blue is the new brown, and pink is the new blue..
To think the FT is left-wing is to be utterly detached from reality.
Steady Ben !!!
It supported the bailouts – QED.
Listen up here boyos . . .
Kinnockio – a great and classic Old_Lie_Bore was worf it.
Shurrup!!
Innit
So the declining readership of the FT is caused by it’s stance? Have you any evidence for that whatsoever?
Perhaps it’s connected to declining readership across the industry?
You fail to mention that the City AM is a free publication. Relevant perhaps? Are their numbers inflated by all the unread copies neatly stacked on our capitals buses every morning?
Giving away things for free is capitalism at it’s finest!
Or socialism or something
Doh!
easy now…..
I can comment where I like without having to buy the FT. I cottoned on to that weeks back. If only I had five years ago.
And Precedent Bliar too . . .
It’s too, too much.
(BANG!)
I think you mean: (WHIMPER)
In today’s edition the FT thinks its perfectly reasonable to publish Alastair Campbell’s advice to George Osborne on the economy. If the FT thinks Campbell is an expert on financial matters I worry for the sanity of the rest of their journalists.
Are there links between the editorship of the FT and the dark baron of Foy?
Probably. The proof will be when they start promoting Blair/Miliband for EU supremacy.
Hey, losers it was also covered in the news pages, because it’s funny to watch an incompetent fly-catching paranoid lump like Osborne try to strut his stuff.
Corr phew!
What a joke!
What a gift!
What a lightweight!
so how much do he jock junta war criminals pay you for this?
only following orders MB?
i feel sad for you.
What’s wrong Master COWARD?
Pissed your pants have you?
Spurious ‘r’ in proof, shurely ?
Let’s see. Campbell’s financial experience amounts to :-
Dreaming up cash for peerages,
Appropriating £1 million from Bernie Ecclestone,
Lining the trough at No. 10,
Negotiating lucrative book deals.
Pretty much the norm for a Zanulab commisar.
Don’t forget writing bad soft porn stories in penthouse of course…
It was Forum
Was that before he became a Robert Maxwell gofer and chief apologist. My what a career you’ve had Mr Campbell, cheerleader for one of the biggest financial crooks in British history ; brow wiper and guide to the most inept, and second most corrupt, PM in British history (though at least Blair shared the financial spoils of Iraq with the manufacturers of artificial limbs and military undertakers); male pornographer, and not least, becoming a beneficiary of the politicalisation of the traditionally neutral Whitehall administrative machine.
I wouldn’t deign to have anything to do with anything that that prostitute Alistair Campbell has ever said or written.
I knew an FT journalist once. He let his wife bully him into buying a place in Ireland they couldn’t afford and now he comes over once a year to sponge off his City mates doing odd jobs around the garden or house — badly.
Very good article Mr Fawkes. The F…..Times should take their share of the blame for the current state of the economy.
They contined to back Labour policies eventhough they knew it would lead to ruin. I am pleased that you and Mr Martin are going to keep an eye on them.
The Conservatives can’t back Quantative Easing
Weve been promised Mugabe style hyperinflation by all the neoconservative economic geniuses on this site for months
it must be around the corner
soon
ish
The inflation has already happened, it’s just a case of it being reflected in the nominal prices of real goods.
do we need special NeoCon glasses to see it ?
Try shopping for food rather than white goods, memory sticks or “gadgets”
Take a straw poll down at your local supermarket.
It’s up but it’s obviously still not hyperinflation and the thing that has skyrocket the most is fuel bills and electricity
if QE is causing it why the fuck would Dave keep doing it ?
He was brought in to outspin Blair, nice smile, good delivery, human touch.
Pause for effect…
Not his fault he has to tackle McDoom. It’s like tag team wrestling, just when you think you’ve got your man Blair tags and into the ring jumps MadJock-ClunkingFist-McDoom with his red underpants and manic grin. If only he can tag Ozzy-Bullingdon-Osborne he can even the sides again. But now Tone The Drone is climbing the pole and threatening to jump back in the ring again.
Booooooooooooooooooo
Fact is, it’s getting close to the point of actually having to do something, lets hope he starts listening to Ken Clarke.
Hague does it better.
Economic observer/commentator Marc Faber gave an interview to Bloomberg TV yesterday in which he said that in 10 years’ time, the dollar would be worth precisely nothing. Zilch, nada, gar nichts, rien, fuck-all. The corollary of that is that the pound is heading for the same fate. Same QE policy; same disastrous public finances in Britain as in America. Plus the US government has been agitating to get the dollar toppled as the world’s chief reserve currency. Why? You tell me. It’s deliberate economic sabotage, innit.
Sorry, here”s a link:
http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=41443&t=1&c=33&cg=4&mset=
To make way for the NWO innit!
Only 10 years! Good god!! it’s just around the corner
It’s reflected in the exchange rate you stupid hoon. Our currency is fcked and next Thursday, when the MPC announces yet more Zimbabwe style money printing, our beloved GBP will go into freefall. Let’s see if you can still afford imported goods, like food for example, next year. You’ll be eating fucking squirrels with the rest of us.
what’s the inflation rate ?
how far is it from Zimbabwes ?
so fuck off you twat
Note the relationship between fx and inflation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar
And it’s:
So fuck off, you twat.
Note the 2 numbers and try to use the arithmetically challenged sponge you call a brain to find the smaller of the two
Zimbabwean inflation rates (official) since independence
(July) 2008
231,150,888.87%
UK Inflation Rate (official CPI)
(September) 2009
1.1%
one is BIGGER, the other is smaller
can you guess which is which ?
one is unbelievable hyperinflation while the other is not
keep trying to guess
take your time.
still too difficult for yout tiny brain ? try reading up on it
The Office for National Statistics’ announcement yesterday that benchmark annual UK consumer prices index inflation had dropped from 1.6% in August to a five-year low of 1.1% in September provides further hope that the Bank will enjoy this luxury of keeping monetary policy ultra-loose for many more months.
Homeowners on base-rate tracker mortgages, particularly those with home loans with no “collar” limiting the degree to which the cost of repayments can fall, will be among those rubbing their hands with glee over yesterday’s benign inflation figures and the prospect of base rates of 0.5% well into next year.
so it’s piss off to you, you neocon economic fuckwit
Then Mr Cameron had best take heed of the wise economic prognosticators on here hadn’t he ? Unless of course he is commited to dooming the UK economy.
Just like the Lisbon Treaty will that he will or won’t give us a referendum on.
Maybe. Or not.
Dave is in a very difficult position. It will do him no good whatsoever to come clean with the average voter about the depth of the shit we’re in. With an election on the way, no one in politics wants to sound too alarmist. Just wait until a new government comes in, though!
What happens in the event of a hung parliament?
democracy will return to Parliament after a protracted absence, that is what will happen, barefootcontessa.
bloody good question though. best of the week, by a mile.
we will need to start facing up to the consequences of what a hung parliament will mean because it has become the probable outcome of the next election.
you have posed one of the most important questions that will be asked during the whole general election campaign.
well done.
excellent work.
We already supplement our diet with any rabbits the cats catch for us.
BIG WOBBLING TITTIES!!!!
We won’t ease the Quantity of those!
You homophobic
Why is no-one visiting us ?
Why does no one read my artikles?
because you’re a twatty little Blairite Kevin
you don’t really want to read left wing prognostications do you Guido?
I get all I need to know about finance and the economy from listening to Gordon Brown
I get all I need to know about finance and the economy from listening to Sarah Palin
If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.
Get back to you air-condition wardbrobe.
Is there a “phobic” for being scared of big tits?
Griffinophobia
except he’s ashortarse
He is a fat bastard though
If the FT has started telling its readers what to think then they can expect a fall in circulation. The FT’s great strength in the past was its strictly neutral political stance. People who read the FT aren’t stupid. The paper’s not a fucking tabloid and when you start trying to push an agenda on a sophisticated audience, they simply won’t have it and who can blame them?
Is the paper still owned by Pearson, does anyone know?
The only sensible thing in this post is the ref to Alphaville being good. City AM? Guido old chap, you’re not coming across as knowing shit from shinola in terms of business press. One Martin Wolf commentary is worth more a month of City AM content. The FT is growing its online subs business in selling to companies here and abroad so i don’t think they care about circulation declines. Also, circulation went up early in the financial crisis and now people are bored with recession some of those new readers have probably moved on. Stick to (or close to) what you know…
At least Guido’s Portfolio position is on the up.
This is what the FT should be reporting.
One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests.
Gary Glitter ‘Executed’
Do you wanna touch…
You refer to the following:
Gary Glitter ‘Executed’ In Channel 4 Film on SKY news?
where did it all go wrong?
THE WHITE FEATHERS ARE IN THE POST MASTER BAITER!
wot post?
He’s gone home – strictly a 9 to 5 Labour troll.
Any tory-bears wanna chat?
Try after 8pm, when its a tad more quiet.
I hate zanulab
I hate zanucon
but I love me Beans
Tea time chaps BYE!
You must stop your love affair with beans or you might have to embrace carbon trading.
Broad? Runner? French? Butter? Flageolet? Haricot? Barlotti? or Black-Eye beans?
Tory MP Bernard Jenkin has been asked to pay back £63,250 by expenses auditor Sir Thomas Legg.
It’s a record!
Hahahaha
I do apologise for my smug supercilious tone, the pills are wearing off you see.
It’s hard to swallow them when your mouth is full of… Gordon.
‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!
hahahahaha
But mere peanuts compared to Champion Piggy Jacqui Smith
The public will love her on Question Time!
Hahahahahaha!!
It’s a record demand for payment.
Hahaha
I’ve got to go soon peasants, nursey’s here to collect me.
Just got to make sure Gordon has a happy ending.
wow
he’s funding the national debt for 10 seconds!
He has quite nice hair though
Right, a lot has been said about QE (printing electronic money).
The facts are (or should be) above politics but to present it as a ‘virtuous’ policy is highly misleading.
The theory is that more money in the economy will mean more spending. If I gave you 1000, you will want to spend more money today and throughout the week and month. Also, more money means lower interest rates. Lower interest rates (usually) mean that people will borrow and spend more money.
That may work sometimes, but it does not work during a recession. If you are out of a job and I gave you 1000, sure you would spend some money, but you would spend very little at a time. You want to make it last.
Also, even if interest rates are low, you STILL would not want to buy a house or borrow money to start a business in a slow economy.
Finally, when the economy picks up (which it always does regardless), there will be more money in the economy but not more goods and services. The result will be a high inflation rate.
Gordon and Alistair are inflating the currency in the hope that the true nature of the asset fueled bubble they presided over remains hidden until after the GE next May.
Only they are building up a worse situation in the years to come. UK is a trading nation, dependent to an alarming degree on finance. The pound is already weak. That is why inflation is still in positive territory. Britain’s reputation dependes on getting the finances in order. The figures are hair-raising.
QE is what Weimar Germany did for the same reasons as the Labour Government today.
The Japanese central bank dumped money into the economy and nothing happened. Why would it be different here?
My advice if you have any spare cash, get it into index linked a.s.a.p.
PS. The winners of QE are the banks who are using it to stuff the black holes in their balance sheets which they created through their recklessness (aided and abetted by lax regulation in London and New York). They are also measuring the tax payer funded cash flooding through their trading floors and paying themselves fat bonuses on it. We will be paying for that in the form of tax and a weak economy for years to come.
The main purpose of QE is to recapitalise the banks. The Govt spends the new money which then ends up in banks. The printing of money means interest rates are on the floor, the bank then lends the money at 5% and makes a whopping profit thus rebuilding its capital.
Its essentially taxing savers to recapitalise the banks without any benefit at all to the saver. The benefits all go to the investors in banks and the assets which are driven up with the printed money.
Its highly unfair and sold as a saviour to the economy by “creating demand”. Its not, its theft. I have good savings but cannot yet buy a house yet I see house prices rise in the middle of a recession! I should have higher interest rates on my savings as money should be in short supply!
Long run they cant keep printing so interest rates shoot way up as savers need more return for the risk. Or they keep printing and we go the way of Zimbabwe. either way we will pay for it.
seig heil time.
You called?
GUIDO WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING AT? WHY ARE YOU ADVERTISING TRIBUNE? BECOME A PINKO HAVE WE?
F***ing Marxists are breeding like flies. I find Marketoracle.com gives a balanced view of the end of the world, as we know it, especially Captain Hook’s technical prediction of a 90% Supercycle crash!
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article14193.html
Of course you know it’s all Dame Margie at Pearson who supports Labour. She’s quite a tough old bird, but likes to peddle a soft line to go along with her American education methods and general support for monopolist practises here and in the states.
I stopped buying the commie pinko rag some time ago.
Can’t stand its smug, left-leaning, “we know best” attitudes/culture that is so reminiscent of Nu Labour, the public sector and the BBC.
The WSJ is a proper paper!
or perhaps “The Beano”
I see the Lords’ expenses are to suffer a “clampdown” and the poor chaps and chapesses will have to produce some receipts. Yawn!
If the likes of Paul, Uddin, Goudie, Scotland, the one with the welsh hoiday home, Rennard and the rest can’t be trusted to understand the simple phrase “Main Home”, how can they be expected to sit in the House of Lords? Anyone coming across oneof these chumps in daily life should ignoe anything they are told by them unless a full, authorised, definition is provided for every word and phrase they use . When will plod intervene?
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Must be more profitable ripping off the FT’s stories than coming up with their own. Ho hum.
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