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Tonight Programme, 8pm, ITV : Govt/housing regeneration stuff. Watch it.

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As house values continue to fluctuate, Jonathan Maitland investigates how changes in the property market are affecting government plans to regenerate housing in towns and cities.
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  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Do we have to watch it?

    Can't you just precis it for us, far more entertainingly?
  • PasturesNew
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    carolt wrote: »
    Do we have to watch it?

    Can't you just precis it for us, far more entertainingly?

    Yes. No.
    Don't lick 4rse just so I precis it ... I'm onto that one.
  • Jonbvn
    Jonbvn Posts: 5,562 Forumite
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    PN,

    I'm not in the UK so am unable to watch it.

    Pretty please???
    In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I'm feeding people and can't watch it. :( sounds interesting though. :(
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    I find it quite difficult to watch stuff on ITV and the Tonight programme tends to make me come out in a weird rash due to very poor journalism.
  • Jonbvn
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    I'm feeding people and can't watch it. :( sounds interesting though. :(

    Why have I got this picture in my mind of you feeding them, like one would feed chickens??;)
    In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:
  • mewbie_2
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    I find it quite difficult to watch stuff on ITV and the Tonight programme tends to make me come out in a weird rash due to very poor journalism.
    ITV? Here's the basic prog then - it'll save time later. Basically there is a single idea which you won't be told initially. The program will open with five minutes of fluff about the possiblity of things happening - bit non specific. The same piece of fluff will be repeated and then the ad break. Back from the break and the same piece of fluff is repeated - IN CASE YOU ARE REALLY STUPID - and then some more fluff to fill up till the next ad break. All through the program while you listen carefully for a FACT they might slip in by accident, you will see shots of buildings from strange angles, maybe someone cycling, a pedestrian and perhaps some flowers.

    More ad breaks. Back to the same piece of fluff as the initial advert for this program stated about two weeks ago. Building excitement now as we get nearer the end and surely the expert will tell us the big idea. Repeat everything again in case we have forgotten it. Then - the thought is produced, possibly with a fanfare and more wacky camera work. This thought is considered so fantastic it will now be repeated multiple times.

    Final bit of same tired old fluff to finish and there you have it.

    30 minutes, or an hour if you are unlucky - to tell you something you knew already. Any arguments couched in common denominator dumbed down language so simple a goldfish could understand it.
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    And the credit crunch will be portrayed as the problem rather than the cure that it is.


    The boom was the problem, the bust is the solution.
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Govt taking heads will be allowed to spout a lot, but no one will actually get to question the claims they make.
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    Shall we have a cleaver style bingo card ?

    I'll start with "credit crunch" and "downturn"

    Tick them off as you watch.
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
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