Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

Spartacus_Mills

tartanterra wrote: »

It's funny how LJ blames everyone but herself for her current predicament. It doesn't even seem to cross her mind that their is some personal responsibility involved here.
She is an allegedly educated person with a fabulous income, who believes that the Government should regulate lenders, to prevent her reckless borrowing habit spiralling out of control.

What a muppet; you couldn't make it up.....:(

It is symptomatic of the way people in society are reluctant to take the blame for their own failings. She is a symptom of societies malaise rather than the disease itself.

lostinrates

re harking back: pratically I agree with FC, on a personal practical basis one must just get on with it. On a campaigning, general improvement and changing for the future we learn from the past (which today will be tomorrow of course). so harking back, not with rose coloured glasses, but to see what we want from the past, and from now, to the future.

Lix schmiz....ony read when linked here: she makes people like me with (what I think are) legitimate new rural enterprise a desire to be part of rural community look bad, and moving into a new rural community can be challenging enough already!

wigglebeena

fc123 wrote: »

I have ID'd who it is from the article. I would be mighty p***ed off if that was my business she was gossiping about.

I am fed up with LJ's moaning and whining too....in fact, it's really getting on my nerves.


Is she hinting at herself as an entreprenuer? Her hobby farm animal rescue centre isn't an income generating business, but a well paid persons hobby.

The employment issue....yup, new tighter rules put off small business from employing and so, have led them to seek new solutions for getting the extra labour they need in their businesses.

I cannot be the only person in the world who just get's on with adapting to changing times? Not bigging myself up or anything but all the 'looking back' to previous times, generations and how things used to be done is winding me up.
We have to live in the now and deal with things according to the new 'rules of now'.

I was puzzled by the article, thinking, 'Have I missed something? Did she provide employment and personally generate a contribution to GDP at some point, rather than just punch a clock?' Not, then, I take it?

Oh, I'm sure she worked reelly, reelly hard... in her own perception. Compared to an immigrant slogging away cleaning in the NHS hour after hour.

Apart from the boozy drunken two-hour writer's lunches. What, no boozy two-hour lunches on expenses? REELLY?

fc123

Todays diary entry was about her solo holiday skiing. I think there is a lag of 4 or 5 weeks from event to press (remembering the snow articles) so she wasn't too crunched to afford a little holiday.
She could also afford a massage (and set fire to her hair with the candle) so, if she is currently pitching a debt free/''shopaholic because I feel worthless'' themed book idea, she may not pull it off.

It would lack any credibility as no-one in their right minds, once they have had their LBM as she claims to have done, would carry on throwing borrowed cash away...or would they?

India Knights thrifty book was prompted by her owing tax that she couldn't pay (and getting threatened with bailifffs I think) and then getting a grip with her finances.
I have to say her Aspirin facial was rubbish as I looked exactly the same after I had crunched up £3 worth of tablets and rubbed them all over my face. They tasted of childhood.

Anyway, I thought I’d fill my time with spa treatments. I booked a massage. Even I can do that. I was greeted by a huge bath filled with flowers and oils, surrounded by candles the size of hippos. This is more like it, I thought, as I lowered myself into the water. The therapist said she would leave me alone to soak for 15 minutes. Not wanting to get my hair wet and oily, I draped it over the side of the tub and closed my eyes. Utter bliss. I could smell burning, but thought nothing of it. There are log fires everywhere in this place. The therapist knocked softly. ‘Oh my goodness, your hair, it ees on fire!’

I am now soft skinned and exfoliated, but with a lopsided hairdo. Why does nothing, nothing, nothing ever go right?

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

re harking back: pratically I agree with FC, on a personal practical basis one must just get on with it. On a campaigning, general improvement and changing for the future we learn from the past (which today will be tomorrow of course). so harking back, not with rose coloured glasses, but to see what we want from the past, and from now, to the future.

Lix schmiz....ony read when linked here: she makes people like me with (what I think are) legitimate new rural enterprise a desire to be part of rural community look bad, and moving into a new rural community can be challenging enough already!

I'll bet you an Aspirin facial the farm will be on the market within the next 6 months.

elona

Having read her account of a scuba diving holiday (not a good swimmer and hated having water over her head)- the skiing (no helmet, put out that instructors were not "crumpet") - could not brave the restaurant on her own as "everyone was looking at her" etc.

She paints a picture of herself as

1 Self obsessed, egocentric and Narcissistic .

2 In her own tactful words to a friend "How old are you? Twelve?"

3 She has the emotional, intellectual and financial depth of a puddle.

4 Has no compunction in writing about so called friends and neighbours in
a way that would hurt or embarrass them.

5 She falls for "the shadow, not the substance" every time with no realisation that effort on her part is needed - to learn to ski- to scuba dive-to keep livestock or to rescue animals etc.

elona

If the farm is on the market in six months (I give it three) we all know that a prospective buyer having read her endless complaints about the people, the farm , the unfriendly area and the fact that she has financial problems will hardly be rushing to pay over the odds.

lostinrates

elona wrote: »

If the farm is on the market in six months (I give it three) we all know that a prospective buyer having read her endless complaints about the people, the farm , the unfriendly area and the fact that she has financial problems will hardly be rushing to pay over the odds.

I'd love it, but guess it would be out of my budget. I also think its probably just too far for us. Her neighbours? sound like the sort of people I'd get on with ok, and seeing I'm also a batty animal woman Liz would have softened the blow nicely for me. I reckon they could cope with some one who makes emergency trips to Space NK twice a year and wears evening gowns to feed the horses sometimes if I can also show some land management sense and takes my inappropriately dressed self to the local pub and ;let them take th piddle for a couple of hours a few times a year. A key part to being a successful incomer to any new well knit environment is being able to laugh at yourself with others, see yourself through their eyes and remember its their life you've coveted, not yours they've gone a-seeking.

''My'' farmer, is no so used to my odd appearance and insistence on thing he considers strang that it doesn't phase him, didn't take long I've only been here in an animal/land management sense for what, a couple of years? we talk land management together and this weekend when i went to get some hay with dh, he asked my inpton something...he would have been knocked over with e feather two years ago had someone suggested he might ever do that.

elona

LIR

The neighbours would fall on your neck in gratitude!

I did not mean to suggest the farm, the people, the district were "at fault" - just that her incessant moaning and well publicised financial woes would not put her in a strong position to sell at a good - or even reasonable price.

What's the betting it goes on sale at the worst possible time at the most unrealistic price? Especially if it gets repossessed.

robin_banks

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

It is symptomatic of the way people in society are reluctant to take the blame for their own failings. She is a symptom of societies malaise rather than the disease itself.

Mrs B worked with her for a couple of years on some mag or other, a somewhat obsessive character and as mad as a box of frogs.