If this is The Worst Recession Ever why does the manager of my local KFC say they are having a record year ? Folks downsizing from proper restaurants maybe ? Nope, the manager of our Wanamaga says the same and so did the Meat Manager of Booker Wholsale Cash'n'Carry to me just yesterday.
I can understand that there might be pockets of difficulty, London with its' swarms of zombie X-Bankers and the West Midlands feeling the decline of the remains of heavy industry but The Worst Recession Ever is not happening around here nor in many other areas with whose inhabitants I have discussed it.
Worst Recession Ever
Worst Recession Ever file under scare-mongering lies alongside WMD, Swine Flu Pandemic, Climate Carnage, Domestic Terrorism etc.
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The worst recession ever is hardly visible in my neck of the woods either.
I live down a narrow country lane which over the years has turned into what they call a rat run, and it's still like Piccadilly fucking circus out there.
I'm also puzzled how the ftse can continue it's healthy looking uniform rise over the last 3 months.
And there's always a ready supply of money for nonsense. Note the football pitch story over at All Seeing Eye's place today.
I do sometimes wonder if people are just bullshitting. Doesn't matter if they are right down on their skids, they will tell you they've never had it so good. To admit they are struggling or even failing is too much for their egos to handle. I might be wrong, I usually am.
On the other hand, my mate the taxi driver reckons the trade has gone down quite a bit. "Older people aren't going out so much of an evening".
But I thought his trade would increase, with people giving up their cars.
NWO.This is to make us feel depressed and feel that there is NO point in anything any more.Controlling peoples emotions is THE greatest power of them all
My friends in the gambling industry (big business in this neck of the woods) have never been busier and their companies are recruiting like crazy. Business is booming and it's not the bullshitting that Hermit ponders about - from the work I do for them I know that is perfectly true.
Now you could say this was the sign of disposable income, or the sign of desperation with the struggling single mother spending her last few pennies on a lottery ticket. Probably a combination of both.
Hermit is right, as are you, Banned. It's anecdotal stories which bear out a recession rather than soulless tractor stats. How busy is your local restauranteur - is it easier or harder to book that table for Christmas this year? Your Chinese takeaway chappie - what's the queue like in there on a Friday? Is it a struggle to get to the bar of your local at lunchtime? In my part of the world it seems everyone is getting along okay.
That either means that it's a bit hyped up, or that somewhere else a whole lot of people are royally fucked.
Eye, I rarely venture out of an evening but my taxi drivers tell me that over the weekend the city center is " fucking mental " and the early Xmas shoppers first arrived two Saturdays ago, as is usual.
Hi Hermit, I see no reasons for the three I mentioned to be bullshitting, I am not a journalist, they are just three people that I know casually who work in that sector. I could equally mention the Tesco lady next door who is forever being harrassed to do more overtime.
The car trade may well have been helped by the scrappage scheme but none of the many local dealers are in trouble, indeed at least two of them have expanded this year.
We are told that housebuilding is at a standstill but this is simply not true. There are three or four quite large sites ( by local standards ) that, while they lay dormant for a few months, are now building away merrily. Builders are not fools, the last thing they want is unsold stock on their hands, they would rather hold onto a vacant lot.
Hi Banned
My taxi mate also told me that it was business as usual on a Fri/Sat night in town. He's not struggling. I know him well and was just picking his brains to try and find any evidence of recession, of which there seems little.
I'm in agreement with all here, but continue to wonder just what is going on.
On the other hand, Brooon has built up a, literally, mind blowing amount of debt and liabilities since the start of the recent crash with the specific and single minded intention of creating the business-as-usual-folks appearance that you all describe.
Anything, he presumably hopes, in that spasming, bogey scoffing way of his, to prolong his time in the limelight and perhaps claw in another term at the helm.
Anyone seen reasonable estimates of future PFI liabilities that Brooon's signed us all up to recently? Or the scale of potential liabilities under the Asset Protection Scheme??
The shit's in the post, I think. It's not landed yet and it might arrive gradually, rather than suddenly, but debt is debt and there's enough of that to go around to bring on a multidecadal slump.
Here's hoping I am as my name suggests.
Mouthy Idiot "The shit's in the post, I think. It's not landed yet "
Perhaps so. I do hope thatyou are wrong !
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