Channeling Super Mac?

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MrMark replied

19 November 2010, 19:54
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

Digby Jones has been on the media today supporting the comments, saying the recession has been great for some (home-owners having their mortgages paid for them; but terrible for others, old age pensioners, savers, jobless). Pretty obvious stuff surely, what is Camoron on about now. It's a rare event that Jones says something sensible though isn't it? Sensible at least in terms of what's good for UK workers.

whs

surprised the geezer had to resign though. Gordo got away with "no more boom or bust"
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TimberWolf replied

19 November 2010, 16:44
Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post

Post recession?

Technically by a gnats dick yes, IMO the reality is indistinguishable from the the last 24 months.

Lord Young has gone now BBC News - Cameron adviser quits over 'never had it so good' claim

I wouldn't say we are out of recession either. We've got money to pay back, and this amount is still rising, inflation poised to go stratospheric, food and energy prices to rise, interest rates so low they can only go up, unemployment and rioting, and probably more money printing to come. Not quite out of the woods yet.
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TimberWolf replied

19 November 2010, 16:37
Originally posted by zeitghost

Ironically, it was probably true when MacMillan said it in 1957.
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OwlHoot replied

19 November 2010, 16:13
Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

BBC ON THIS DAY | 20 | 1957: Britons 'have never had it so good'

Macmillan looks almost the spitting image of my uncle in that pic although, unlike him, Mac didn't wear a monocle on account of his "lazy eye".
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gingerjedi replied

19 November 2010, 14:19
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

Lord Young is right about post-recession Britain, says IEA think tank - Telegraph Duh.

Post recession?

Technically by a gnats dick yes, IMO the reality is indistinguishable from the the last 24 months.

Lord Young has gone now BBC News - Cameron adviser quits over 'never had it so good' claim
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TimberWolf replied

19 November 2010, 14:00
Lord Young is right about post-recession Britain, says IEA think tank - Telegraph Duh.
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TimberWolf replied

19 November 2010, 09:54
Digby Jones has been on the media today supporting the comments, saying the recession has been great for some (home-owners having their mortgages paid for them; but terrible for others, old age pensioners, savers, jobless). Pretty obvious stuff surely, what is Camoron on about now. It's a rare event that Jones says something sensible though isn't it? Sensible at least in terms of what's good for UK workers.
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zeitghost started a topic Channeling Super Mac?

19 November 2010, 09:46
Channeling Super Mac?

PM aide regrets recession comments - News - Virgin Media

You've Never Had It So Good. (c) Super Mac 1957.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 20 | 1957: Britons 'have never had it so good'
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