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- EVs currently subsidised by state to the hilt in Eco-mental-central Germany. People baffled by huge 'demand'.
I said, the hardly reported news that JLR is having another break, after just a couple of weeks back, that no one is buying £50-~80k ICE/PHEV SUVs, cars generally, especially ridiculously priced, real-world way lower than lied about official mpg, thrown together by £10/hr, couldn't give a damn, temp/agency staff, JLRs, covered up 'Chip/parts shortage'. Capiche?
If Goldman Sachs is 'predicting' something, you know that's what will happen, and this confirms that the BoE will raise the base rate to at least 5% by early 2023, given the cover of this 'runaway inflation' - manufactured, created, and only really in food and energy - and so mortgages to over 10%, and car loans to 15% or more - which means the deliberate pricking of all the 'asset' bubbles, housing primarily of course, and the crashing of the economy - the 99(.9)% dispossessed of what they had:
'Investment bank Goldman Sachs has predicted inflation could[will officially] hit 22 per cent in 2023'
Goldman Sachs said inflation will double to reach as high as 22 per cent as the price cap on energy bills continue to rise, pushed up by soaring gas prices.
Should be thee news - just like Soros's attack on the £/BoE/UK was 30 years ago - covered by the BBC, ITN, the heavies, front page etc, for days, months. Now it's some 60 yr old child, fat clown dressing up each day on his farewell tour - and they say UK has not been totally dumbed down:
Investors alarmed at Britain's bleak economic outlook and political uncertainty dumped government bonds on Wednesday, extending a recent selloff and putting some gilt maturities on track for their sharpest monthly loss since records began.
www.reuters.com
- doesn't matter what the BoE monetary policy committee does. Interest rates in UK are already going vertical. We're one stop away from an Argentina situation, where 'The Markets' pull the plug on the £, its debt, and the UK.
Then, how do you pay for the 50% of imported food, the 50% of imported gas, more than 50% of oil/refined products, the 90% or so of imported cars? etc, etc.
You don't, do you. You become like Argentina, or at best, like UK in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, where it was 'export or die' - the Balance of Payments all that mattered - reported on almost nightly by the main TV news bulletins, etc.
The 'cock wombles', as the contributor above puts it - 99%+ of British people - have not a clue of any of this. They STILL think they live in a rich country.
UK ISN'T. FFS, it's been p!ss poor since at least 1945. Arguably since 1918, or the 1880s - when Germany overtook it for manufacturing output. Take away The City, the global money-laundering and tax evasion, the oligarchs and assorted global scum that reside part of the year in London, and you have one of if not thee poorest nation on the planet - no caveats.
~80m people living on fresh air - f#ck all real work - value-adding.
Insane situation.
Take away the £, and you have... not 1984, ...you have Lord of the Flies - total anarchy, dog eat dog. Mad Max.
That's why the Media report on the fat wankstain 'Boris' 24/7.
The cock wombles might be starting to realise that their 'businesses' weren't businesses at all - cafes, nail bars, beauty parlours etc - that their 'Booming Britain' economy post the GFC, or since the 1980s, was rather just clowns and idiots who thought they lived in a rich country, and that the £ sterling was like gold, silver, oil, and not just printed, into the trillions, and fast becoming the new peso:
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
Napoleon was right - 'a nation of shopkeepers'.
Take away the shops, and what have you left? NOTHING.
Those 'jobs' were never jobs. The 'Public Sector', where outside of London 50-80% of 'jobs' come from, were just make-work, adult nurseries/day-care, for unskilled, uneducated clown muppets, many 'middle class', public school, the works, who are completely useless to a productive, real society - a dead weight.
Half of me wants this 'Great Reset' to happen. I know the pain, misery, and many, many deaths it will cause, but by god, the last 40 years in UK, for anyone half intelligent, able to see what was happening, has been painful - clowns, gimps, fools, crooks, the lowest of the low, making out like bandits, and lording their wealth.
With ice coverage for July and August remaining above the 10-year average of 2010-20, the extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic has surprised experts who once predicted that such levels would be i…
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'They' know this coming winter in the northern hemisphere will be brutal. Anyone with a brain cell, and who has lived for over 45 years, knows these 'record highs' are lies, given the 80s and 90s were much warmer. What happened to the Hurricane Season this year for instance. AWOL.
There is no heat. The opposite. I've never felt so cold - almost every morning this 'summer' near 10 deg. C. The 'heat', true record droughts, and deluges in some places, are caused by HAARP, and other geoengineering, to mind warp credulous plebs that we are having more and more extremes, and so proof of CAGW.
'They' know more and more have woken up to their Big Lies - Vax, CAGW, Save the Planet while they zoom around in private jets, etc. 'They' have to go for broke now - by making everyone broke, and so beg the state for handouts, become tied serfs, or They will go broke, as in many pieces of separated body matter.
Cleverly, They'll do this by telling some of the truth - Fox News, Sky News Australia reporting on the obvious scam of Green, mass EVs, CAGW etc. The reason is to get people fit to burst, with anger, so that a civil war breaks out, while they flee, or just stand back while everyone tears each other apart. Simple.
MPs were furious yesterday over the Met Police’s plans to ditch the PM’s British-made car and replace it with a German limo. The Sun revealed yesterday how senior Cabinet ministers who have armed p…
www.thesun.co.uk
- what I don't understand is why Met Plod are refusing to buy armoured Range Rovers, L405 'Sentinels'. Ther must be some still around - only launched 3 years ago.
If JLR had its arse in gear, it would have the new car Sentinel version out already - L460 been on the market for a year or more. How hard is to do that?
But why isn't Plod buying the old car?
Could it be they are sick and tired of the unreliability? A security risk. A backup car, and a backup to the backup, for any journey above a few hundred yards?
Why aren't the Oxbridge PPE Tory MPs asking this obvious question - 'what's the matter with the armoured Range Rover, Mr Plod?'.
Jesus, what a country. A people barely fit for turnip farming, who think they run, boss the world.
The last UK leader, love or loathe her, was this character. She would have the Met Commissioner in and grilled him. And then the boss of JLR, to get to the bottom of it. And then she would told the Indians to piss or get off the pot - sort out JLR, invest some real money in it - their own - or sell the damn thing, to someone who might make a go of it.
Little known - Thatch hated her mother. Why? Because she knew she was illegitimate. Her mother's mother worked in a Big House in Lincolnshire or wherever, and was put up the duff by the squire, lord. She was Irish, Thatch's grandmother, O'Sullivan I believe - like my grandmother.
Thatch's sister, Muriel, loved her mother. Totally different to Thatch. Thatch took the fire, drive of her Irish ancestor, and her looks - 'blond/strawberry blond' - gingerish, pale skin. It took an outsider, as usual, to whip the English into any kind of shape, from their slovenly, idle, work-skiving, small-minded ways:
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
As I said, UK has been neither financially sound since the 1980s, or a recognisable nation, or sovereign - master of its own house - since The City and its rapacious greed dominated everything - Thatch was just a puppet, with the moneychangers in full control 35/40 years ago.
'UK' is, or was, simply there to serve, and provide cover for, the real power in the land - The City of London(formerly Frankfurt, formerly Amsterdam, formerly Venice, etc).
The City doesn't need the 'UK' now - 75-80 million useless eaters.
They could have pulled the plug in 1992, or 2001, or 2008, but each time they came back for one more feast on the host, printing trillions to buy up everything worth having, and leaving all the (unpayable, comical) debt, and useless 'assets' - '£1m' hovels in stabville, London - with the 'UK' - gullible, incredibly stupid Brits.
As I also said, UK was bust in 1945, and its real wealth and glory gone after WWI.
A century of real, total collapse, was hidden from the hoi polloi by The Empire thing first, and then counterfeit money - 'The pound sterling' - soon to be worth not one-thousandth of a pound of silver, measured in hard currency - rouble, yuan - or other precious metals.
Argentina was once the world's richest country, in the mid to late 19th century. Iraq was 'humanitarian interventioned' for all its gold, and oil wealth. Libya even more so. Ordinary Libyans pre-2012, had the highest real standard of living of ordinary people in the world.
The rug has been pulled, as I said. Blain knows the score. The 'UK' is being taken down - an old whore, its use ended.
Now you'll see the truth of 'the 5th richest country in the world'. Dickensian-besting poverty.
70 million or more people in 'UK' living on NOTHING, except counterfeited money.
No resources, coal pits sabotaged, coal-fired power stations literally blown up. Food imported from thousands of miles away. A populace that will die before knowing how to grow their own food.
'UK' was always a fiction. It was London and England. UK was rich, greedy Scots who went bankrupt in the early 1700s asking London/The Crown for a bailout in return for giving up 'Proud Scotland'.
No one cares about Wales.
France, Spain for a time due to New World gold and silver, and the Holy Roman Empire/Germany, were always the powers, only powers, of Europe. England was an irritant at best. Pirates harassing Spanish galleons, or bred for the purpose stout Welsh archers slaughtering the flower of French youth and nobility.
England only came into reckoning with the moneychangers setting up in Lombard Street, having scuttled away from Amsterdam. The City, The Crown, The East India Company - peddling drugs from India to China - was 'England' of the last 300 years.
Its purpose has been served. The new wealth is in Asia, hence the 'sudden' collapse of the UK and US economies and whole countries, into total anarchy and hoped for, planned for, civil wars.
Slowing demand from key markets such as China and the United States, coupled with logistics issues caused by Brexit and the pandemic, has created a bleak outlook for factories.
news.sky.com
Just as I said - NOTHING is in short supply, EXCEPT intelligence, the ability to think for oneself:
'According to S&P Global, companies experienced a steep downturn in new orders in August, with interest from domestic and overseas clients falling heavily.'
- this isn't just last month, a sudden, 180 change on the 'everything on massive backorder' BS peddled by the Media and repeated by airheads for the last 12-24 months, it's been happening since the start of this year at least - UK, US, and European economies went off the deep end months and months ago, but the idiot plebs were told to believe the exact opposite, up is down, black is white, Collapse is 'Massive Post-Pandemic Pent-up Demand'.
f#cking idiots fell for it. All those clowns bragging about how many months, years, their new car order was taking. Jesus wept. Could you not see it was created, manufactured, to pun, confected, to keep these clowns thinking their car, once they got it, would be flippable, or at least high, high residual - free motoring - and not be worth the square root of nothing, when the collapse was too obvious to hide, and NO ONE was buying anything, except the 0.1/0.01%, and their £250k+ runabouts, and £x million specials?
Why wasn't this obvious? It's human psychology - lying, pulling the wool over your eyes - 101.
Has everyone lost their minds? Has the Jab, 'Vax' gone to the brain?
JLR doing its own rug pull - the Dual Arch thing scrapheaded - after a whopping 4 years max - £hundreds of millions down the drain across the JLR UK dealer network alone:
Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) plan to open its own car retail stores as it embarks on a process of “reimagining every aspect of our Jaguar business” has sparked uncertainty among its franchised car dealers.
www.am-online.com
- what JLR is doing, is telling these greedy fools - dealers - that they're surplus to requirement, as Speth's '1 million units a year; 300k+ units/yr UK by 2018-'20' JLR, is binned, officially, with JLR doing around 50k units a year max in UK currently. Hence, far fewer dealers required.
But it's worse than that. 'JLR' will become, is already becoming, just 'Range Rover' - Full-fat and its sister car Sport, and a few very 'high-end' - silly price - Defenders.
That means dealers required only in the handful - not unlike Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, etc.
Huge news again - the axing, end of around one hundred, glass palace, 'Dual Arch', often mega, dealerships, with typically 50-100 full-time employees, and all the smaller 'businesses' - £5+ per cup coffee etc - that rely on them, so conservatively into the over ten thousand jobs gone.
'Jaguar', if it ever becomes more than Powerpoint and PR, will be even more so - just a literal few, 'mega', 'mega-city' - cough, London - 'dealerships' - "art" galleries - where you'll peruse the configuration of your by then starting from over £250k Jag.
The Dual Arch clowns must know they've been done, like a kipper, their business and likely themselves, ruined, thanks to first believing Speth and his BS, to take on BMW, Merc etc head on, and then Bollore and his 'Reimagine' BS, which just meant far fewer cars, in product lines and numbers produced, and far higher prices.
But being thick goes with being greedy. So, F 'em, as the national treasure, blowjob merchant, best mate of the midget renter of Tuscan villas to Russians would say.
The UK bond market sell-off adds to the challenges facing the next occupant of 11 Downing Street, tipped to be Kwasi Kwarteng (pictured).
www.thisismoney.co.uk
Argentina, which the Brits split their sides about, its tinpot generals, Junta etc, just 40 years ago, is undoubtedly where UK is headed in the next year. But it's closest parallel at this moment is Turkey, and its joke Lira. UK's £ needs propping up like the Lira. The BoE base interest rate should already be double digit, going up in 500 point jumps when required, just like Turkey's central bank does.
Brits haven't a clue what's ahead of them. They think places like Turkey are massively beneath them - either Midnight Express shithole for the older ones, or cheap booze trips for the younger ones. No, in comparison to UK, Turkey has a lot going for it - sun, heat 8/9 months of the year, lots of agriculture, now best mates with mortal enemy Russia, and of course the border between the vassal area 'Europe', and its owners in Asia.
Turkey knows it has assets - far too many people, granted, but that land is wonderful - Anatolia, Asia Minor, lots of water from the mountains, etc.
The only thing UK has is property. Trouble is, you can't export barn conversions for '£5m' in Surrey.
There's hope for America - where they can still laugh, and Plod won't arrest you for being mean, hurting feelings. In UK, it's finished. The intelligent ones know it's suicide to speak up, out, and the thickos - 90%+ - still lap up the 24/7 propaganda - cowards, safety in numbers, the herd.
So, a country run by the most cowardly, craven, stupid, and greedy, and its best terrorised into silence - UK in 2022.
We used to laugh like this, back in the 80s, even the 90s, pre the creature Blair. 25 years have gone by, in the Gulag, the open air insane asylum, and you forget what it is to laugh, call out cretins, idiots, pompous clowns, crooks, and, Evil.
Want to see how bad the UK car market in reality is right now - not 'Chip shortages', years long delivery times, and other lies a child would spot? This bad:
- brand new, delivery mileage, '72' September plate. Obviously a flipper - couldn't even be bothered to take it home, from the Listers Solihull dealership - formerly Stratstone's - thereby adding to the mileage, and his cost in fuel.
Arnold Clark: £55.9k.
WBAC: £63.6k
Badly burnt, greedy, stupid flipper:
'beat the waiting list and drive this car away today'
The base price of that car is £60k. With options, price he paid was probably £70k:
'20 inch upgraded black alloy wheels and side steps mudflaps and roof rails and full pan sliding roof and boot spoiler and full set of rubber matts on the floor and cooled and heated seats and ambient lighting this car has a full black pack'
- the silly prick will be lucky to lose only £5k, instead of the hoped/planned for probably £20k when he ordered it profit. But it is Solihull, 'posh Brummie' land, where brain cells are like non-trout pout women, and news travels about 2 years after it happened.
And there it goes - the UK 'economy' - plug pulled, rug pulled. Greedy, stupid, BTLers, '£1 million' hovel owners - not worth the dust in their mortar - etc, about to be slaughtered:
Shares in British housebuilders' index tumbled to a near nine-year low on Friday after analysts at HSBC warned that the country is on the cusp of a housing downturn, as a steep climb in mortgage rates casts a cloud over demand.
www.reuters.com
Just like cars. One minute, the Media and the 'experts' are saying EVERYTHING is in shortage - 'can't get a car for love or money' - the next it's fields of unsold cars - 'waiting for parts' - and mountains of timber, cement and bricks, and unemployed brickies, who were supposedly pulling down £500/day - and no doubt ordering two RR sport SVRs in their lunchtime.
All bunkum and lies, concerted, got up, to lull the morons who fell for this - 90%+ of humanity in the West - so that They could have one last laugh at the idiots' expense, and make a final killing, selling average cars for near double their usual, have to discount heavily - pre-regs, "ex-management", "ex-demo" etc - price, and crap, "Executive", jerry-built new houses, over 12 to an acre, for £500k-1 million+.
You really think a less than 1,000 square feet rabbit hutch(2 stories), 'Executive' 'house' - no garden, minimal frontage - is worth £1 million, built by the cheapest, nastiest bricks, insulated with the same crap they put on Grenfell - Celotex and the like - built by casual workers from all over the world who don't give a F, on land that might have been a refuse tip 20/30 years before, or "redesignated" - backhanders to the council - a flood plain, contaminated industrial land etc? Insane UK.
It's over. The bubbles have all been deliberately pricked, by They, with the operative word being pricked, as only greedy, shallow, none too bright pricks fell for this garbage.
I think it's also fair to say that the NHS, the sacred national institution - kills people for money - 'vaxxers', no doctors because they're all on the 19th hole, has let down our population, the mad, the insane, the oxygen starved - complaining about JLR as though anyone gives a F, they don't, and spaffer, whose supposedly still in charge.. Sad that it let's down those starved for oxygen, or perhaps those that just never got over the potato famine, the young boomers - old millennials - the ex-JLR employees that lost their wives to Haymarket Media employees - Evoque driving metrosexuals and lumbersexuals ... something something.. blah.. f'ing blah... something something...
