Panorama now on BBC1

aHullKingstonRover

...about the effects of the credit crunch

anna42hmr

apparently you can text questions live now, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7667716.stm

luvpump

I gathered from the First 10 minutes what I had suspected anyway ....The U.K Economy is FxxxxD !!! The Figures of Debt Etc were frightening !! :eek: Repos going through the roof, Unemployment Exploding, The Country is broke and we have only just entered Recession.. That Pensions Expert said, we are entering what will be a "very Nasty Recession" ... :eek:

ed123_2

.....but looking on the bright side of life...la la la la...we still got Gordon the moron...

amcluesent

LOL. The BBC, so you can guess the background --

<ring,ring>
"BBC here, how can we help the Labour party"
"Aye, Gorrdunn here laddie! You'll have had yer tea? Anyway it's all the fault of spivs and international financial turbulence, ye ken?"
"Err, of course PM. No reflection on your financial titanosity"
"No, will it had better not be, if you follow my drift! Hoots!"

2latenow

ed123 wrote: »

.....but looking on the bright side of life...la la la la...we still got Gordon the moron...

Indeed, but (love him or hate him), you'd be forgiven for thinking he's still the Chancellor and not the PM. And that Capt Darling was just his assistant.

Sorry.. slightly OT... Back to Panorama.

JohnnyJet

Wish they would stop saying that we all borrowed too much and that is why we are in this mess, I didn't but I am starting to feel the pinch from not being able to access my savings.

LGG_2

i didnt borrow anything saved all my wages and put it in savings and now i cant get it. would have been better off spending it all and claiming benifits lol
you cant do anything right in this country you get bitten on the a** either way

richardlionheart

2latenow wrote: »

Indeed, but (love him or hate him), you'd be forgiven for thinking he's still the Chancellor and not the PM. And that Capt Darling was just his assistant.

Sorry.. slightly OT... Back to Panorama.

YES we would prob of been better off under the leadership of Black Adder and Baldrick ! ( at least they had a cunning plan ) :rolleyes:

ManAtHome

But at least we got a proper definition of 'bust' (as in in [no more] 'boom and bust') - according to treasury twonk it's when interest rates hit 15%. Apparently just a 'downturn' when the taxpayers have to stump up hundreds of billions to rescue the banks - so everything back to normal in a week or two then..?

Would have been much more interesting if they'd left the talking heads in the hospitality room IMHO.

richardlionheart

I liked the line about the Banker that had Jumped from a tall building !?

luckily he had a soft landing ,apparently they had landed on a tax payer. phew