John Ward December 9, 2019 beyond bojo bollocks

At the End of the Day

Wake Up

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Today the Daily Mail is offering you Gordon Ramsay’s best-ever Christmas recipes. His restaurants lost £3.8m last year. This trend comes amid hard times for restaurateurs long predicted in these columns. Fellow celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s restaurant business fell into administration this year – closing all but three of its 25 outlets – while chains including Carluccio’s have been forced to close outlets.

This is the beginning of a retail “froth” cull that is going to leave High street rents at rock bottom, and create huge migrant worker unemployment levels. I wish the government of the day luck in dealing with it.

And now, a commercial break during which Remainer fluffies can make a cup of tea….

Over in the banking sector, a brand new Bank of International Settlements (BIS) report has just pointed out that the “US repo markets currently rely heavily on four banks as marginal lenders.” The BIS is pretty much the top of the tree when it comes to globalist financial matters.

These columns have opined for some time now that the Guilty Six here are JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs Group, and Morgan Stanley. These chaps hold almost exactly half of all lending exposures

Going forward, the New York Fed is coughing up $25 billion a day in an effort to cap off this magma.

Waydergo Chrissy Lagarde….good luck with this one when it comes to eurodebt.

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I choose these two seemingly unrelated realities as symptoms of ‘Neither Brexit Nor this General Election is Relevant to What Lies Ahead’…..beyond dumping any and all liabilities we face in the Withdrawal Agreement to the European Investment Bank.

Fear not: I do not harbour delusions of grandeur. I know perfectly well that 99.5% of humanity isn’t tuned into this channel. But face it: ‘Get Brexit Done’ is like saying, in 1938, ‘Get Hitler’s signature on the Munich Agreement’.

It isn’t going to solve anything.

Thank you and goodnight.

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keithbartlam on December 12, 2019 at 10:46 am

JW. Are you familiar with this Journalist, ….what are your views on his writings?

https://christopherstoryarchive.wordpress.com/category/hmqueen/

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pfmills@hotmail.co.uk on December 11, 2019 at 12:38 pm

Too true JW, but don’t ignore Costa and Starbucks, their turnover ids down, they have never made any money [at least in theory]

My hope is the election is that Corbyn slips in [just] but needs the help of the usual trio [LD, SNP & Greens] to do anything [so hopefully not too much damage or speed]

He spends months negotiating with the EU on a fresh withdrawal agreement May/Boris/Corbyn/EU mark 4? or whatever.
Returns to the UK waving his bit of paper, as his new referendum on this WA, spending a further 6-12 months agreeing the wording.

In the meantime the World as a rerun of of 2008 melt-down. But the Political class is now so disunited that we have a proper 1929 crash. which is what should have happened in 2008.

% rates rise to normal levels, the US retires to an isolationist stance, the Chinese foreclose on all its assets in the EU and we all learn to speak Mandarin.
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The Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has defended Myanmar’s government against accusations of genocide at the international court of justice,

But the Genocide of Christians in the Middle-East, Pakistan and Bangladesh as usual will be totally ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/11/aung-san-suu-kyi-tells-icj-myanmar-genocide-claims-factually-misleading

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Derek Reynolds on December 11, 2019 at 9:50 am

George Carlin had it right in so many subjects. R.I.P.

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Caratacus on December 10, 2019 at 4:57 pm

Instead of “Get Brexit Done” it should more accurately be phrased, “Get Brexit Out of the Bloody Way” because what those wiley bu99ers in the upper echelons of Westminster have planned for us may certainly not be referred to as Brexit in any meaningful sense.

Whenever I hear de Pfeffel utter the phrase now, I feel like Samuel L Jackson’s character in “Pulp Fiction” … “Say ‘Get Brexit Done’ again. Say ‘Get Brexit Done’ again, I dare you, I double dare you motherf****r, say ‘Get Brexit Done’ one more Goddamn time!” Mind you, I don’t have an automatic pistol stuffed in Boris’ left earole so the allegory falters somewhat …

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RouterAl on December 10, 2019 at 11:25 am

I always assumed the bell weather of the high street was florists, when things are going well, they go very well but when the general economy starts to go belly up so do they.
I now have a feeling that come Friday morning when I wake to the bulk of the results, that like yourself I think I will see little will have changed.
The only good thing I have seen in this election is an independent candidate running in Mole Valley Surry called Robin Horsley, he is a no deal Brexit man I wish him luck. He has talked about the only sense I have heard in this election campaign so far. Anyway the local Tory sitting MP has threatened him with legal action, so that further warms him to me.
However I now am convinced tribalism will returned with a vengeance again, we have a country which votes against one or other party most of the time not for something.

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Jack Savage on December 10, 2019 at 9:20 am

And on that note….let me be the first one to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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alisonfletch on December 10, 2019 at 8:33 am

You have advised me in the past to “follow the money”. Not original advice but sadly, does seem to be behind most political smoke screens these days.

Following my pension trail for instance, I find that George Osborne took a job paying £650,000pa for 4 days work a month(!) with Blackrock. Can’t be bothered to investigate further at this stage of my life as I still have to work, but guess they like rising State Pension ages and using my National Insurance.

Carillion for instance, made them a mint by going in to liquidation after getting Govt contracts…

Bottom line in my world is, that people can’t deal with all these details. We delegate them to our MPS. Brexit too. Character and capability important so then policies follow.

That is why millions will vote Labour ‘cos they think they’re more honest characters who aren’t JUST out for themselves.

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eggbutnobacon on December 10, 2019 at 7:55 am

No, it won’t solve anything but, it will give them somewhere to lay the blame, won’t it?

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Ian Batook on December 10, 2019 at 7:24 am

Our family are healthy vegetarians, We know how to peel a brussels sprout, slice a cabbage and remove the pip from an apricot. Eating out for us is going to the fruit and veg market 3 days a week. Sheer heaven.

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steptoes bones on December 10, 2019 at 6:55 am

There’s a very interesting article by Susanne Moore in the Guardian. She discusses the idea that after the election people should start to talk to each other and try to understand their differences. Very sensible thoughts….then read the comments below the line!
Another example of the dogmatic is the comments in response to John Crace’s political sketch on Corbyn.
These idealogues will not be crossed.

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steptoes bones on December 10, 2019 at 6:55 am

There’s a very interesting article by Susanne Moore in the Guardian. She discusses the idea that after the election people should start to talk to each other and try to understand their differences. Very sensible thoughts….then read the comments below the line!
Another example of the dogmatic is the comments in response to John Crace’s political sketch on Corbyn also in The Guardian (9/12)
These idealogues will not be crossed.

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michaeljspencer1 on December 10, 2019 at 5:57 am

Great reporting as ever JW. BRgds from one of the .5% who does appreciate you! mjs

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tonyopmoc on December 10, 2019 at 1:05 am

I thought I had made it quite plain, especially locally, that despite what my wife says to them at the front door, that despite a bit of political cock waving, down the pub, that I was highly unlikely to vote for any of them…

So today we got what seemed a hand written letter in a hand written envelope addresed to our family, suggesting we vote for him, like we used to.

Now, I know how they do this, and they actually use a computer controlled biro in a production line. Every letter, hand delivered of course, looks very personal as if from a friend. The content of the letter is almost exactly the same, for each “family” who receives it. It is very effective propaganda, and he will probably get in again. They mass produce thousands of them, tailored with the content, they think most appropriate for the area within the voting borough. The Labour Party and The Tories, can’t compete.

But I am not voting for the cnt, ever again. I don’t mind political views, but I detest, complete betrayal, of the people who used to vote for you, when you get near to a seat of of power, and suddenly from being the ultimate pacifist, become the worst war monger in support of a foreign country and religion.

I sometimes wonder how much they paid him. I know his history. I have researched him, and I am not going to vote for him, whilst I admit I used to.

You are supposed to represent us. Not a foreign Country who has almost certainly bribed or blackmailed you. You are neither Liberal, Nor Democrat.

You are just a bunch of Sad Trotskyists. You even embarrass, the most Left Wing of the Labour Party – and Lib Dems – You are Far more Right Wing Than The Tories. I admit you may have the prettiest girls, except your leader. Where the hell did you find her??

I am not voting for any of them.

I’m staying home.

Tony
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George Carlin, American superhero. Oh how I miss him.
JW

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Inchcock on December 10, 2019 at 12:00 am

Sorry, I wrote git in the first reply, it should have been this. Tsk!

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Inchcock on December 9, 2019 at 11:59 pm

My lack of education often limits my understandings of financial and political shenanigans. although, an interest remains. But this git through clear enough. Thanks.

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Alec Swan on December 9, 2019 at 11:40 pm

…….. yet another incisive and thought promoting and providing article. We can all see what’s wrong, we can track the growing hurricane of collapse and despair since the failing of Freddy May – but still, we sit by and do nothing – in fact we do less than nothing, we do fuck-all and that simply adds to the burden and accelerates the decline.

Excellent – thank you John.

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Andy5759 on December 9, 2019 at 11:38 pm

It’s all going more or less as any slightly right wing cum libertarian blog readers would have predicted a decade ago. The choreography of these dances is awe inspiring. We are all caught up in a devilish reel heading ever downwards to the pit. I will vote, it’s my duty. I will vote Conservative, more in hope than expectation. People of my generation have learned through experience to have few expectations. Hope? Hope is like faith, it’s a bet against the worst case scenario.

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