Yes, the apocalypse is here and we're all doomed. Apparently, Gordon Brown was wrong when he said there'd be no more boom and bust. Shocking. And apparently this recession will be as deep as some other recessions we've been through and maybe not quite so bad as some others. Wow. And some nice hedge fund manager has told people not to buy sterling. Er, hang on..
Anyway, I may have only lived through 3 of these recession things, and a couple of dodgy downturns but I don't recall anyone boring for England on the subject on *quite* the same scale as all the column-writers and pundits are doing on the telly and in the papers at the moment. And I certainly don't recall reading as miserable a collection of views as have been doing the rounds in the papers the last few weeks. Honestly, if you just read the papers and watched the news, you really would think the apocalypse had come, and this time the Devil has chosen to turn up as a giant bank manager rather than Mr Stay-Puft.
Now, as stunning an admission as it may seem from someone with my mercenary tendancies, can I just say that whatever problems are here or are coming, IT'S FUNDAMENTALLY ONLY MONEY AND LIFE GOES ON. And if you step outside the front door, the world is still there. It strikes me though that some journos just want to initiate or at least wallow in misery as part of some bizarre mass hysteria. Strangely though, none of the pundits and columnists seem to be affected in the same way as the people whose lives they are writing about. Quel surpris.
So until people can write about these things a bit more constructively, I shall be getting my news from The Sun and Digital Spy websites, thank you. Might not keep me bang up to date on who has come up with the longest possible duration for the recession this week, but at least I'll have all the latest on Girls Aloud to keep me company.
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It's all about selling papers, and to Hell with if they scare anyone.
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