"Markets can remain irrational longer than you or I can remain solvent."
A. Gary Shilling
Working Mans Economics
Just watched the first episode of 'The Good Life'. Tom casually remarks to Barbara that he isn't too concerned about jacking in his job because "the house is paid for".
Tom is 40, works as a draughtsman and lives in a 3 bedroom detached house in Surbiton.
The same people reliably tell me that British Muslims don't have the same values as me. Yet they've just voted for a young woman, representing an unashamedly progressive party, led by a gay Jewish man.
The brass neck of "Sir" Jim Radcliffe, banging on about people on benefits, when he just received a £120 million bung from the government to keep Grangemouth open, despite the fact that he doesn't pay a penny in tax in this country. How's that for benefit scrounging?