she said that she was seeing some green shoots or, as some seemed
to suggest, should she have been dragged off to the nearby Tower of
London to be flogged for the criminal act of being a bit daft? Now
I know it’s not fashionable or sensitive to be upbeat when there
are companies going bust and people are losing jobs, but I am
seeing some quite encouraging signs.
myself, and also lost a business in the last recession, so of
course I have great sympathy, but businesses go bust and people are
made redundant all the time. In the same news report following her
so called ‘gaffe’ Tesco and Sainsbury announced the creation of
thousands of new jobs, so should we continue to feel full of doom
and gloom as the daily job loss reports get bigger, or should we
start looking for things to feel good about?
Huge headlines followed the saving of 155 lives by the pilot who
managed to bring his aircraft down and surf it along the freezing
Hudson River. He even looks as though he sports a ’tache, making
him look like Errol Flynn or a British WWII fighter pilot. But this
uplifting story was quickly replaced by news of companies
struggling and people losing jobs. No wonder we all feel like
jumping off the roof – except for me, that is, because I have
already had more enquiries in the first two weeks of this year than
during the whole of January last year.
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Now of course the enquiries that I have will still have to be
converted to orders, and, with all the lenders having jointly
around 50 quid to lend to potential borrowers, this is a bit of a
challenge. Of course I also have high demand for S Class Mercedes
for the monthly payment of a Fiat Punto, but I’m encouraged
(touches wood). Incidentally, I actually did touch wood, not my
head! What’s that all about? People say touch wood then touch their
head, duh, your head isn’t made of wood and unless you actually
touch wood you can’t bring good fortune so don’t bloody do it!
Anyway, we won’t get out of this recession unless we all start
feeling good and we won’t feel good when all we get is bad news and
damned rain. So, whilst we can’t change the weather, and it might
be a good idea for the government to inject more and more of my
children’s future into making flat screen TVs and S Class Mercedes
more affordable, they would achieve so much more if they created a
new law, something this lot are incredibly good at, that banned the
reporting of bad news.
There you go, problem solved! My suggestion is that they should
start with Motor Finance, I don’t expect to see one bit of bad news
in this issue, Jo, or you’re off down to the stocks with Baroness
what’s her name for a bit of a whipping! [Ed: Er…]
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