Tuesday 8 September 2009

More Allsopp, Channel 4.

Despite calls from some quarters to ban Kirstie Allsopp, the government is currently considering plans to encourage More 4 to roll her show out 24/7, in the hope that this might help rekindle the property market before the next election. The presenter of Location Location Location, although the daughter of Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, could be considered a little suburban due to her obsession with buying and 'doing up' property. But this is what makes her popular with the prospective homebuyers, television executives have decided .

On a day when it was reported that young homeowners face legal action and bankruptcy after their 'off-plan' flats plunged in value, commentators are wondering whether television presenters who have 'pushed' the dream of untold wealth through property ownership, should be allowed the oxygen of publicity. Clearly Channel 4 thinks that they should and Gordon Brown, looking fondly back to the glory days of rampant property speculation, would like to take this one stage further.

Brown would like to create a 'rolling' property channel where suburban TV personalities would help home buyers up and down the land find their dream homes. Brown hopes that the perception that everyone is 'doing property nowadays' would swiftly return the market to the febrile state that existed pre-2008. "Who said that I did not put an end to boom and bust?" said Brown. "What happened to the property market last year was just a side show. Clearly the quickest way for everyone to get rich again is to believe that everyone can get rich again. So my advise to you, the British people is: tune in, turn on, shell out."

29 comments:

  1. All you (fucking) need is love

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  2. Dream a little dream for me...

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  3. More like, 'in your dreams', Gordon.

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  4. Confidence is High8 September 2009 at 11:51

    It is actually true that confidence underpins everything. You have to believe that property is going up to buy it - whatever the general state of the market. That's why everyone fears deflation: Why will anyone buy goods and services if prices are heading down?

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  5. Mr Bastard goes to town8 September 2009 at 11:53

    That has been Gordon Brown's policy all along. He props up the banks to inject confidence and now he wants to banks to race ahead just as they did in the early noughties so that 2008 can seem like nothing more than a blip in history.
    But what is gonna happen to the debt???

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  6. We clearly owe Gordon a debt of gratitude for saving the world, which is what he did.
    The 'Matrix' is still intact... Phew!

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  7. Isn't it time for Gordon to drop out, drop out, drop out?

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  8. Brown still dreams that the people will want him to stay on post 2010. There's a lot of world that still needs saving out there.

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  9. Con-fidence is high

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  10. I vouldn't never let anyvun ever tell me about cann-vidence vann I vass een gavernmant.

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  11. Prime Minister, Gordon Brown8 September 2009 at 12:05

    It has come to my notice that some people might doubt my ability to carry on saving the world. Can I just state that I will not abandon the world in its hour of need and I intend to stay on for ever and ever and ever.
    I have put an end to 'Brown and Bust'

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  12. Can I simply state that it is actually I, Robert Langdon, who will save the world.
    I have already proved myself as the scourge of Opus Dei, and now I will take on the dark forces of the 'negative market perception' that is still afflicting some of you doubting Thomases from Britainland. I have decoded the code that is holding back bankers' bonuses and I believe that we are on the verge of another boom.

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  13. It is I who will save the world and-

    ***The remainder of this comment was moderated***

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  14. I love Kirstie - read all about it in my blog entitled 'It's cool to love Kirstie Allsop... and if it isn't cool then it is post ironic.'

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  15. Chris Hitchens Other Brother8 September 2009 at 13:03

    He's right you know. Kirstie has that kind of post-ironic retro naff suburban feel to her, doesn't she? But I bet she knows how to hold her knife and fork and spit out food that she doesn't like in a discrete fashion.

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  16. Duke of Devonshireshire8 September 2009 at 13:07

    Yes, Hitchens is also right. I was once at a dinner party and sitting opposite Kirstie. She clearly had a problem with one of the prawns in her prawn cocktail and started grimacing. But with grace and ease she managed to gob it out discretely into a napkin which she then effortlessly dropped onto the carpet below. What a national treasure.

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  17. Duchess of Walhamstow8 September 2009 at 13:10

    That's as maybe. But I have it on good authority that she has a ghastly way of eating asparagus. Apparently she sticks the spears at least three times up her left nostril before she realises that they are supposed to go into her mouth. She looks sheepish and then claims that it is an old family tradition... The thought of it!

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  18. Apparently 90% of all you Britlandmen said in a poll that Nick Cohen does not know how to hold a fish knife properly.

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  19. What the f***!
    I am a superior pollster to Frank and I found that in my poll 98% of men women and children in this Britlandland of yours believe that Gordon Brown eats Walkers Crisps with his mouth open and also cannot hold a soup spoon properly!!!

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  20. This is all crap

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  21. Yes, it is nonsense. Please desist

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  22. I wish people would stop taking my name in vein... I mean intravenously

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  23. I too have witnessed Kirstie gob out a prawn, with time honoured style and precision, and it is indeed a pleasure to behold

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  24. Baroness Muck of Catford8 September 2009 at 14:27

    Its all well and good you young literary types waxing lyrical about Kirstie's handling of a dodgy prawn, but perhaps you ought to see how she deals with those little cheese and pineapple on a stick things that are all the rage nowadays. It really is not a pretty sight.

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  25. Apparently the lovely Sarah Beeeeeny thinks that the egg and spoon race is some kind of speed eating competition

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  26. The Duchess of Gobshite8 September 2009 at 15:16

    I know, I saw her at a recent school sports day and she polished off all the other parents eggs before they had a chance to run with them.
    Still its one way of nobbling the opposition!

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  27. This is all still crap

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  28. I agree, we need serious debate

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