British to the core
Sep. 25th, 2007 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksCore Values, Stand up for British Values, Support schools and hospitals, stand up for you...
All phrases that, as usual, are inserted into gramattically correct sentences, and which mean absolutely nothing. Thanks Gordon.
It's incredible to think that Chris Morris produced a faux party political broadcast as part of On The Hour (or perhaps it was part of his GLR show) more than 15 years ago, and that current political speechwriters seem to have taken as their template.
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Northern Rock, eh? Cor, what a fuck-up! This is a bit like trying to sell a second-hand car that no dealer is interested in. "Nah mate, couldn't sell it for a fiver if I took it off your hands, not even if I broke it up for scrap".
The standard response is, of course, "I wouldn't start from here". Carrying on "as is" is an impossibility, because the rates that it is paying to BoE for funding are higher than the rates it is charging its borrowers. Eventually the capital will run out. And the buyers (or, rather, non-buyers) know this. Perhaps that offer of 100p a share, so derided when made a few weks ago, might turn out to be bigger than the final offer. Which, in true Godfather II terms, could turn out to be "Nothing."
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All phrases that, as usual, are inserted into gramattically correct sentences, and which mean absolutely nothing. Thanks Gordon.
It's incredible to think that Chris Morris produced a faux party political broadcast as part of On The Hour (or perhaps it was part of his GLR show) more than 15 years ago, and that current political speechwriters seem to have taken as their template.
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Northern Rock, eh? Cor, what a fuck-up! This is a bit like trying to sell a second-hand car that no dealer is interested in. "Nah mate, couldn't sell it for a fiver if I took it off your hands, not even if I broke it up for scrap".
The standard response is, of course, "I wouldn't start from here". Carrying on "as is" is an impossibility, because the rates that it is paying to BoE for funding are higher than the rates it is charging its borrowers. Eventually the capital will run out. And the buyers (or, rather, non-buyers) know this. Perhaps that offer of 100p a share, so derided when made a few weks ago, might turn out to be bigger than the final offer. Which, in true Godfather II terms, could turn out to be "Nothing."
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