Bank nationalisation, with the shareholders being wiped out, has now to be on the cards.
Yep, quite. Get on with it.
An outbreak of teh sniffles is just the excuse we need to nationalise the financial system.
Sorry, did I say excuse? I meant proves the validity of.
But, there is little reason the supporting many energy companies: when we know that they have been drastically overvalued because of the presumption that oil is the basis for our future, when that is clearly not true we should not be seeking to preserve their value now. The time for their nationalisation has arrived so that the transition to the green economy can be taken forward with speed after this crisis is over.
Oh, and nationalise the oil companies.
The Nazis confiscated savings accounts and insurance company reserves, in addition to making levies on people who wanted to leave the 1000 year Reich. I wonder if he has been studying his role models again
I do hope that Murphy’s pension pot is as fucked as mine.
What an absolute fucking suppurating bellend cunt.
@BraveFart
“What an absolute fucking suppurating bellend cunt.”
You’re far too kind.
Have you seen his latest tweet? Calling Rishi Sunak’s £330bn package a ‘trick’ that a ‘shit accountant’ would pull.
It’s obvious that if Sunak had announced he had a free cure for the virus and a gold brick for everyone that Spud would have criticised him, but using pathetic schoolboy insults at the same time shows just what a twat he really is.
Come on chaps, fair’s fair, he’s not a well man.
Knowing that he reads Tim’s blog assiduously, why don’t we show a bit of kindness and make some book recommendations to help him through this difficult time?
For my own part I have a hugely collectable copy of the DDR statistical yearbook from 1978 which I could wrench from my shelf in the spirit of fraternal self-isolation. The section on per capita consumption of cement in the Potsdam area is especially rousing.
That isn’t nationalisation, that is theft, pure ans simple. Unless he really meant wiped out like the Romanovs in which case it is approaching genocide (Lloyds alone has 2.4 million individual shareholders, Santander 4 million (including some Spaniards), Barclays, RBS, HSBC a few million more).
Oil companies are doomed, therefore the state should buy them in order to hasten their doom? What is he smoking?
I have news for this idiot
The worlds economy is dependent on oil and will be for many decades into the future despite the snake oil salesmen with their shiny electric cars and renewables propped up with OUR money
He really needs to relax… Probably more time needs to be spent with his choo-choos.
… Or in front of my camera.. M
I’m disappointed by the daily increase in the body count.
If it carries on like this, I reckon the GBP is going to smell a rat before the weekend.
Then, sell Daily Mail stock.
In what way are you disappointed? Too slow or too fast?
Slightly OT
We’ve had our son and his fiancé living with us since November while they sort themselves out after a year travelling in South America and SE Asia.
He rang from work this afternoon to say he was on his way home after meeting someone who was displaying the virus symptoms and had coughed on him*. We evacuated the house and are going to be spending at least the next 7 days living in our motorhome. This would be OK except most campsites are still closed and we need to visit one every 3 or 4 days to dump our chemical waste and get fresh water.
What a pain.
* The idiots answered the door to him!
“I do hope that Murphy’s pension pot is as fucked as mine”
Friend of mine was trying to decide between 2 job offers, one with a govt defined benefit pension scheme and one without but 10% more pay.
Said this has made it a much easier choice
BniC. I think disappointed because the body count is only going up by about 20 a day. The exponential curve is taking a while to get going, and the man on the Clapham omnibus is going to realise he’s been forfeiting his Liberty for a complete crock of shit.
BniC, I ought to have signposted a sarcasm alert.
Oh, come on, we’re wogs….
@BniC
The DB scheme is probably worth ~25% of salary (depending on age etc). But they’d need to be work there for (at least) several years to get the ‘benefit’, so if it turns out to be a shit job, they’re a bit locked in.
Rocco Siffredi: … Or in front of my camera.. M
I’m inclined to believe that a box set of select material from your Ely lock-up may shortly be released upon the car-boot market which features excited donkeys, seraphic Toynbees and corpulent quasi-academics from Ely.
However, leaving the donkey to one side for a moment, resent it though he may, the panting from the remaining cast may only signify excessive political excitement plus an urge for ‘social distance’ above inflamed desire, so you could conceivably end up with a bit of a turkey.
Gobble, gobble, gobble!
Ritchie will soon be parading the streets wearing a:
– “The End Of The World Is Nigh – Repent And Give All Your Belongings To The Government”
I rather liked this, puts the virus hysteria in perspective
Have some compassion for the poor Veggiecarbohydratednessism.
He is ill, and the delusions of his waking life now look sane, even to him.
The correct response is: “Yes, Dear. Now rest until you feel better”.
But there’s something in what he says: the state should immediately nationalise an address in Ely. Without compensation. How can he object?
This is a surprise
Well done Susan Michie for putting country before ideology
Perspective: In UK ~1,680 die every day Total ‘with’ CV-19 UK Deaths is? Daily death rate this month vs Mar 2019?
PS Ritchie – wearing a sandwich board proclaiming
It sounds like he’s been drinking his hand sanitiser.
the state should immediately nationalise an address in Ely. Without compensation
After all the ranting about landlords, I’m starting to think he’s renting.
Think have far down this route we’d already be in Corbyn had won the election.
The spud gets better and better. It’s as if Charles Pooter was running the Khmer Rouge.