Welcome to the recession

Is it any surprise that GDP dropped more than expected? Gross domestic product fell by 1.5% in the last three months of 2008 after a 0.6% drop in the previous quarter. This means the UK is finally in recession – although we have known this for far longer than it seems the government has known it.

GBP/USD touched 1.35 today! The FTSE is Below 4000 & the Dow is Below 8000 – the worlds economy seems to be going down the financial toilet. But more importantly the UK thanks to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s actions as Chancellor & PM since 1997 has well and truly strangled this country and it’s in a worse state than many would of thought possible.



The chances of coming out of recession at a quicker pace than any of the other economies on this globe are pretty slim (hence the reason Sterling is now 1.35 against the Dollar – Traders are betting against Brown). Sterling at these levels may indeed help our exports but when an economy has no manufacturing of any importance to talk of there isn’t much to export to the rest of the world. The UK has survived these last 10years+ on high street spending by the masses – but the UK high street is now dominated by the generic institutions that you find on every generic high street up and down the country, there isn’t much an incentive to save it – the British consumer has no reason to feel loyal other than the fact they may work there or they have friends that work at x y and z.

There are very few new businesses these days in the UK that aren’t service based – yeah sure – everyone is setting up a consultancy business these days but how many people do you know have set up a business in the last 10years that are actually making something that they could export overseas? I bet you can count those people on your facebook friend list on one hand – the rest of us are dependent on working for the big financial, corporate and global institutions.

So where have all the entrepreneurs gone?

Are we surprised – we’re all pushed into going to University these days. That’s great isn’t it? Well it would be if we could take what we learnt at University and put it into practice and work for ourselves – but unfortunately the average student now comes out of University with a debt of over £20,000 (if their lucky – as it’s likely to be a lot more than this) – hard to start a new business when you are already up to your neck in debt from day 1. How can anyone possibly rent out commercial premises and start their own business with ease? The British Labour Government likes to strangle anyone’s chances in doing this – they will charge you a fortune in business rates for the priviledge of being in this country – is it any wonder the landscape is only dominated by big firms that made it years ago.



Gordon Brown will continue to preach that he is doing all he can for the economy – but the reality is this disaster of a man has borrowed up to the tilt and is now probably sending us into Depression rather than recovery. What a cock!

The Vile Winter Trend

You only have to stroll round the shopping districts of London to notice an alarming trend that seems to have engulfed the fashion victims of London. This trend is more noticeable the more upscale the neighbourhood you tour – proving once again Money can’t buy you class! The winter trend can be seen on the Kensington ladies as the temperature remains cold, the Essex Wives, the Russian pin ups and the generally clueless women of Europe. Every time, I see this fashion Faux Pas, my stomach winces and I honestly feel like vomiting there and then. Another course of action is to accost the Fashion Victim and fire of a tirade of intelligent abuse – this action has been taken many times in the last couple of months and each time I’m glared at by their blinged up embarrassed Husband or the women turn away acting clueless and innocent about the mistake they are making. So what fashion mistake am I referring to? FUR! FUR! FUR! Animals farmed and often skinned alive so that selfish fashion victims can feel wealthy and warm at the same time! Why is Fur coming back into fashion?

Why – because people don’t care anymore! Surely this can’t be the case?

People are recycling more these days and pledging they care about the environment yet when it comes to the suffering of Animals, these Fur wearing Monsters don’t seem to care.

Back in the 80’s there were huge campaigns to stop people buying fur – models were claiming to boycott the trade and the who’s who of the celebrity world would stand up and fight against the fur trade persuading the dumb masses not to buy or wear fur. But that seems to have completely changed in recent years – every clueless celebrity out there that enjoys the bling seems to be wearing a fur coat!

Here are a few examples:

- 50 Cent – Is it really that Pimping Manly to wear all those little animals?

- Invanka Trump – Donald’s Daughter as clueless as ever from the 50-Cent School of Fashion mistakes!

- Jennifer Lopez – the Jacket may be tasteful from a distance but is that blood in the critters mouth really that tasteful as it feels the last few seconds of its life drain from its body - all for its precious pelt so Jenny from the Block can look good?

- Lindsay Lohan – Crap Actress with even crapper Fashion taste – oh dear!

- Madonna – Maybe the divorce from Guy Ritchie is affecting her ethical taste – has it now gone out the window?

- The Olsen Twins – Double trouble when it comes to fur – boycott their dire films if you have any sense.


It’s my belief that the increased wealth that has come out of Russia in the last 10years has helped contribute to this fashion trend – The Russians have always been big advocates of fur – can you blame them – Its cold over there most of the year round and before Communism fell they hadn’t experienced the technological progress that can be found in synthetic warmer wears such as Gortex & neither had they been exposed to the ethical education that we in the west had been exposed to.

Fur is simply wrong – continuous education should have been taking place in recent years highlighting the plight and suffering that is inflicted on animals all because of the fur trade, the ever intelligent fur industry should not have been allowed to claw back its wealth from the Russians & the Shallow Celebrities that inflict our airwaves.

Not convinced fur might not be cruel? Observe these films on the harvesting of fur (I warn you these films are graphic):

The majority of Fur these days comes from China – Why? Because, life in China is cheap and there is no regulation – If you believe you know where that French designer sourced his fur for your precious fur coat – you really don’t! It’s sold on mass to a general market.



Still happy about the fur coat walking past you in the street?


This one exhibits a Fat American Scumbag harvesting Chinchilla Fur.



PETA investigators on a fur farm in Midland, Michigan, saw chinchillas who were being electrocuted, causing painful seizures to the animals' hearts, and having their necks snapped while fully conscious. The reason they are not cut – Chinchilla fur is only of any worth to the designers as long as there are no markings on the fur.

There are hundreds of sickening videos to be found on YOUTUBE and the rest of the internet in regards to the fur trade. Do we need to pull out the cans of Red Paint once again?
Only Cavemen were fur – so why do we need to take a backward step in the 21st Century?

What PETA are doing to take a stand: