Tonight’s local election coverage on BBC News 24 is, aside from David Dimbleby, completely crap. I am currently watching Jeremy Vine do a really shit American accent, dressed as a cowboy, reading out truly woefully described statistics about the Liberal Democrats. It’s really difficult to watch. It’s as if someone has decided that local election coverage needs to be fun. Fun in the sense of BBC Children’s Television fun. My eyes feel soiled. I hope someone puts the Jeremy Vine clip on YouTube because I did not make this up but doubt anyone will believe me.
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I don’t give a flying fuck about David Cameron flaunting the rules of the road on a bicycle. The thing with Cameron is; he started off OK, but got pulled in all kinds of directions by the interests surrounding him, and when elected he’ll swing further to the right and will tolerate/exploit stuff he knows to be wrong. He’ll excuse it by deferring to ‘people being concerned about N‘ and he’ll ride them like a donkey rather than tell anybody they’re wrong, like a grown-up, with a grown-up face. See Broken Britain. In The Sun. As PM he”ll paint his bike black, get mudguards , and go out hunting peasants with his fox-gun. Probably.
If I were David Cameron post-bike scoop I’d market myself as a maverick prepared to bend the rules to get the job done. Dr House MD, on a bicycle. Minus the Vicodin. With legs that work. David Cameron with a Vicodin habit would break Broken Britain’s broken back. The Vicodin straw. The kids look up to Cameron - the street youth. Hipsters, fidget godivas, and Vicodin, all being David Cameron’s fault. Prompting apocalyptic headlines in The Daily Mail, Armageddon in The Sun, and wanky, serious discussion, with mostly idiots, in The Broadsheets. Fuck them! What does David Cameron want with them anyway? Dr House MD wouldn’t give a fuck. Oh, and The Mirror are a bunch of twats too. Just to be even handed and all. The newspapers are crap by-and-large because a great deal of the people that read them are idiots.
Heh. Heh. Heh heh heh. Lol. There’s potential for much drama today (I reckon), you can watch it live on Bloomberg. Naughty Carlisle. Heh. The stock markets will not close far down, but that’s not the point - it’s specifically about the rate of growth.
In other upcoming news from this armchair economist:
March 14th – Iranian parliamentary elections. Watch oil prices in the next few weeks. If it hits $140, we’re all fucked economy-wise, at least temporarily. More possible than most people realise because they don’t know how OPEC works or the proportion of Iranian oil on the world market.
Interesting times as always.
FYI - a recession is often thought of as a negative change in the rate of growth. The rate of growth is not the same as negative growth. So when people say “the economy is slowing”… You get the idea; something slowing is a negative change in the rate of growth. It’s like negative acceleration when a car slows down. The press is generally too fuckwitted to work that one out.
Be Your Own Pet and Fiery Furnaces (if you play this one backwards it makes as much sense) and QOTSA.
Thought of the day
Conservatives may have a predilection to fuck budgerigars and discard their spermy cadavers in rubbish dumps.
