Wilsons, in the press yet again

Zandoni

Why do the press print this stuff?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219390/Meet-retired-teachers-richer-Beckhams-180m-buy-let-empire.html?ITO=1490

mbga9pgf

Gonna laugh when ol fergus is on the street pimping his wife to pay off his btl debts. I believe he has got so desperate that he has started selling off plots of land to gyppos. Must be desperate....

I wonder how much state support old fergus is getting with the BTL void rates we are seeing at the moment?

lostinrates

Message for singlesue...I know I said elsewhere I taped my car wing mirror on but I am NOT a wilson.

nearlynew

I love the end of the headline.......... "do they know something we don't"?


............ as if these idiotic, greedy chancers are somehow experts.

Zandoni

They are amazing mathematicians, but they can't count how many houses they have.......hehehehehehehe

dopester

That article wasn't all pro-Wilsons.

I detected the occasional dig at them. Perhaps a final glorying article for the most part, but suggesting the press would be ready to get their sharp claws stuck in if the Wilsons fail to come good and sell for a profit.

If his waiting around for some big-time crazy foreign moneybags to buy all their houses doesn't work out like he expects. To tell the other side of the story and blast them.

The daftness of saying they were ordinary, whilst they have staff on nightwatch patrol around their own house, and other things. (Which six people? Their daughters included?)

• and that their acumen is so astute that they have made six people millionaires through their advice alone.
• And so the couple, who own between 700 and 900 houses - Fergus hasn’t counted recently
• After spending an afternoon with the ‘billionaires’
• Fergus, 61, is also adamant that their fortune has stood relatively steady against the recession.
  
• Then, when I arrive at their home, Judith clucks about like a kindly grandmother, not the woman who spearheaded the Judith Wilson Property Investment Bond scheme and whose name is on the deeds of hundreds of properties.
• Sometimes he spends hours playing ‘pattacake’ with his guard dogs. He doesn’t respond when I ask whether the buzz of buying has dried up. No doubt, after nearly 900 houses, it has.
• Twice a week, newspapers and television crews visit and he recites the same old anecdotes about his childhood — sometimes word for word. He has, it seems, become a little jaded, a little cynical.

Afriend_2

Zandoni wrote: »

Why do the press print this stuff?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219390/Meet-retired-teachers-richer-Beckhams-180m-buy-let-empire.html?ITO=1490

I stopped reading the Daily Mail when I realised all their stories created negative emotional responses and added little value. Now I don't read any tabloids. I think they are created for the amusement of sheeple.
Hence why sales are so high.

carolt

It's funny that, I never, ever read them until I came on here and people kept linking to them.

Now I find them a guilty pleasure, and find all the celeb gains a pound! celeb in bad dress! celeb has a wrinkle! deeply relaxing, for some unaccountable reason.

wageslave

Jordan and the Wilsons. They make you feel glad to be you.

carolt

Sorry, have to disagree.

How can anyone fail to be tickled by headlines like:

"Father-to-be misses birth of his son after being arrested for grabbing nurse's breasts on way to delivery room"

"Ralph Lauren apologises for digitally retouching slender model to make her head look bigger than her waist" and

"Why you need to be exceptionally well-heeled to work at Harrods (stilettos are compulsory on the shopfloor)".

The last one interested me as I used to work at Harrods. (Many years ago.) Being made to wear stilettoes would be painful in any job, but far worse at Harrods, where you are sacked if found to be sitting down. At all, all day long. Aaagh. :eek: