Comments on: Meanwhile, the rest of us were getting on with being skint http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/ The weblog of Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ejh http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42220 ejh Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:56:36 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42220 <i>In the case of cashflow, a couple of extra points for a couple of months on a few thousand isn’t going to ruin them.</i> No. But a collapse in consumer demand may very well do so. In the case of cashflow, a couple of extra points for a couple of months on a few thousand isn’t going to ruin them.

No. But a collapse in consumer demand may very well do so.

]]> By: Tim Almond http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42217 Tim Almond Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:28:40 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42217 The thing is, it doesn't even affect all small businesses and homeowners either. Plenty of businesses have money in the bank and use borrowing to fill odd gaps in their cashflow, or for planned expansion. In the case of cashflow, a couple of extra points for a couple of month on a few thousand isn't going to ruin them. Then there's the homeowners who bought more than 5 years ago, or who didn't also try and have holidays in Dubai at the same. All that the government is trying to do is to keep the bubble going, instead of letting the market adjust to where it should be. The thing is, it doesn’t even affect all small businesses and homeowners either.

Plenty of businesses have money in the bank and use borrowing to fill odd gaps in their cashflow, or for planned expansion. In the case of cashflow, a couple of extra points for a couple of month on a few thousand isn’t going to ruin them.

Then there’s the homeowners who bought more than 5 years ago, or who didn’t also try and have holidays in Dubai at the same.

All that the government is trying to do is to keep the bubble going, instead of letting the market adjust to where it should be.

]]> By: richard hannay http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42211 richard hannay Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:23:44 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42211 El Gordo is churning out diamond-encrusted, class AAA humbug by trying to imply that the 'British people' consists of savers, small businesses, homeowners. When we all know that its the star-spangled elite who are the REAL people, who will never be danger of being taxed properly. El Gordo is churning out diamond-encrusted, class AAA humbug by trying to imply that the ‘British people’ consists of savers, small businesses, homeowners. When we all know that its the star-spangled elite who are the REAL people, who will never be danger of being taxed properly.

]]> By: Philip http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42210 Philip Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:32:38 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42210 This fecker we didn't elect, Our lives and our livings has wrecked; And now, when we bridle, He tells us we're idle; And since we're so feckless, we're fecked. This fecker we didn’t elect,
Our lives and our livings has wrecked;
And now, when we bridle,
He tells us we’re idle;
And since we’re so feckless, we’re fecked.

]]> By: Naomi Kliens spanker http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42206 Naomi Kliens spanker Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:33:51 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42206 Yes the PM loves to use virtuous soundbites about whom he considers the hard pressed... He could just finalise the whole thing by descibing them as the 'tax payer'... It would seem to me that it was some of the 'homeowners' that were indeed to blame for part of the problem... However that would be me using the same illiterate twaddle the PM uses... It is clear that we are being brutally had from behind and getting ready for a reach around in the not too distant future... Yes the PM loves to use virtuous soundbites about whom he considers the hard pressed… He could just finalise the whole thing by descibing them as the ‘tax payer’… It would seem to me that it was some of the ‘homeowners’ that were indeed to blame for part of the problem…

However that would be me using the same illiterate twaddle the PM uses… It is clear that we are being brutally had from behind and getting ready for a reach around in the not too distant future…

]]> By: Philip http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42205 Philip Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:27:27 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42205 It's been a while since I was on the dole, but it was damned hard work at the time. It’s been a while since I was on the dole, but it was damned hard work at the time.

]]> By: bb http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42204 bb Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:31:39 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42204 How about using all that lie detector technology aimed at the poor, feckless and disabled on bankers? How about using all that lie detector technology aimed at the poor, feckless and disabled on bankers?

]]> By: marksany http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42199 marksany Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:15:24 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42199 There won't be any hard-working families soon, we're headed for the dole. There won’t be any hard-working families soon, we’re headed for the dole.

]]> By: Philip http://www.chickyog.net/2008/10/13/meanwhile-the-rest-of-us-were-getting-on-being-skint/comment-page-1/#comment-42195 Philip Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:12:35 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=3371#comment-42195 Looks like hard-working families have been dropped from the priority list, then. Looks like hard-working families have been dropped from the priority list, then.

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