Daily Mash: Housing Market

Graham_Devon

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have unveiled a £400m investment to encourage new building and help first time buyers after realising Britain had long since given up on anything that was not ultimately about houses.

The prime minister said: "This package will help to reinflate the house price bubble and give mortgages to people who can't really afford them. Unless anyone has any better ideas?

"It's worth remembering that the only reason the British economy seemed successful in the late '90s was because of a house price bubble and mortgages being given to people who couldn't really afford them, so it's not as if we're in uncharted territory.

"This will definitely work."

Nick Clegg added: "We calculated that if you strip the housing sector out of the British economy you're left with some Duchy Originals marmalade and footballers paying for threesomes.

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molerat

Closer to the truth than most articles in the "real" press.