Cheers Tim. [There’s also a slightly revised, link-added and fact-checked version of that comment on my site]
Kay Tie
I’d say that putting an MP like that straight was like kicking a puppy, but it’s not really: more like kicking a rabid Jack Russell.
But I just don’t know why either of you bother to write comments on CiF: just look at the dozens of nonsense replies either side. Drowned out by drivel.
Ooh, speaking of idiot numpties, can we have a special moment of contempt for bloody Guido, who seems to think that if NR repossesses someone’s house for not paying his mortgage that makes him a “victim of socialist economics”…
Kay Tie
” NR repossesses someone’s house for not paying his mortgage that makes him a “victim of socialist economics”…”
But it does now make him a victim of a socialist government (although he’s hardly unique in that).
Oh what fun the tabloids are going to have with Northern Rock.
I once spent a pleasant afternoon helping the Labour Land Campaign write the section on Land Value Tax for John McDonnell, which he included in his manifesto as writ, so I hesitate to lay into him. Despite, obviously anybody who relies on Richard Murphy as evidence clearly only understands half the equation.
I read JB’s full thing and have left a question in comments, which I would like to see answered so that I can make head or tail of this.
pj
“..bloody Guido, who seems to think that if NR repossesses someone’s house for not paying his mortgage that makes him a “victim of socialist economics”
I don’t think that was exactly the point that Snr F was making.
As one of his commenters punned” The war of Millikin’s arrears…”
The point is not that NR mortgageholders having their houses repossesed actually makes them ““victim(s) of socialist economics” but that the assertation will be made. If you look at his preceeding post on the NR debacle you’ll see a Labour poster from the ’05 election accusing the Tories of exactly the same thing.
Sauce & geese come to mind…
Cheers Tim. [There’s also a slightly revised, link-added and fact-checked version of that comment on my site]
I’d say that putting an MP like that straight was like kicking a puppy, but it’s not really: more like kicking a rabid Jack Russell.
But I just don’t know why either of you bother to write comments on CiF: just look at the dozens of nonsense replies either side. Drowned out by drivel.
Ooh, speaking of idiot numpties, can we have a special moment of contempt for bloody Guido, who seems to think that if NR repossesses someone’s house for not paying his mortgage that makes him a “victim of socialist economics”…
” NR repossesses someone’s house for not paying his mortgage that makes him a “victim of socialist economics”…”
But it does now make him a victim of a socialist government (although he’s hardly unique in that).
Oh what fun the tabloids are going to have with Northern Rock.
Not sure that’s true – if someone got put in jail for smashing John Prescott’s windows, would that make him the victim of a socialist government?
” if someone got put in jail for smashing John Prescott’s windows, would that make him the victim of a socialist government?”
It would make them a Hero of the People in my book!
You’re right. I’m only joking.
I once spent a pleasant afternoon helping the Labour Land Campaign write the section on Land Value Tax for John McDonnell, which he included in his manifesto as writ, so I hesitate to lay into him. Despite, obviously anybody who relies on Richard Murphy as evidence clearly only understands half the equation.
I read JB’s full thing and have left a question in comments, which I would like to see answered so that I can make head or tail of this.
“..bloody Guido, who seems to think that if NR repossesses someone’s house for not paying his mortgage that makes him a “victim of socialist economics”
I don’t think that was exactly the point that Snr F was making.
As one of his commenters punned” The war of Millikin’s arrears…”
The point is not that NR mortgageholders having their houses repossesed actually makes them ““victim(s) of socialist economics” but that the assertation will be made. If you look at his preceeding post on the NR debacle you’ll see a Labour poster from the ’05 election accusing the Tories of exactly the same thing.
Sauce & geese come to mind…
There’s a good FT blog here that explains exactly what the residual liabilities NR has to Granite companies are (executive summary: not much to worry about)