The BBC needs to leave it out … Britain has been doing great since the Brexit vote
Doomsday Beeb Remainers and the Bank of England don't want to accept the facts
I DIDN’T feel gloomy enough on Saturday so I tuned into BBC Radio Four’s Today programme where you can always be sure of a massive dollop of pessimism no matter what the facts are.
I was not disappointed.
They had sent a ho hum presenter out to Gibraltar to do a “woe is me piece” on how the Leave vote would mean the baboons committing suicide, expats dying in the street from malnutrition and the Rock floating into the Med.
Of course the financial reality since the Brexit vote is the complete opposite but that doesn’t suit the Remainers running the Today programme.
Here are the facts that neither Osborne wanted to acknowledge or Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, wishes to hear:
- Unemployment actually went down to 4.9 per cent, confounding claims that there would be a new Jarrow March by Christmas.
- The annual rate of house prices went up to 8.7 per cent in the year to June 30 despite Osborne and Co saying you would soon be able to buy a house in Eaton Square for the price of a packet of lemon drops.
- Government borrowing was £3 billion lower from April to July than in the same period last year despite Osborne saying there would have to be an emergency Budget to deal with the hole in our accounts caused by our exit.
- Thanks to a very welcome decline in sterling, London’s West End had a record July with the average Chinese tourist spending an astonishing £1,410 in the shops.
- Thanks to Brits not wanting to be blown up or shot in Belgium or France or sexually assaulted in Germany many plumped for a staycation giving a £1.4billion boost to the tourist industry in the UK.
All great news and all down to the fact that you ignored the doomsayers, the “experts” and, I am delighted to say, ALL three political leaders.
Perhaps our next referendum should be on whether the editor of the Today programme should stay in his job.
I think I know the answer already.
Leave.
Time to de-select Danczuk
UNTIL I read her own story in the Sun on Sunday I had no idea how seriously Karen Danczuk had been hurt when her estranged husband, the MP Simon Danczuk, kicked in the door of their holiday apartment, covering her in glass.
She had 40 stitches in her chest area.
Let me say that again.
Forty stitches.
How on earth can Danczuk continue to be the MP for Rochdale with that kind of blood on his hands?
At a both local and national level there needs to be moves by Labour to have him deselected.
There doesn’t need to be a big debate.
All you need is someone to say: “Forty stitches.”
That would be enough.
DO you think Kim Kardashian’s rear end should be made a Unesco World Heritage Site?
MISSING - HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?
Last seen July 2016 with £3.5m
HAS anybody seen Roy Hodgson?
If you do spot him, I would be grateful for a photo of the ex-England manager who has been missing for almost two months since the Iceland game and has never explained to us mugs why we were so awful in the Euros and why on earth he shouldn’t pay back some of his £3.5million annual pay packet.
Please send sightings to [email protected].
IN a survey of erect penises apparently African men are the longest at between 15cm and 16cm, Asian men the smallest at 9.3cm-10.5cm with the UK standing proudly at 12.9cm to 14.7cm.
Putting aside who would actually do the measuring – I imagine David Furnish might work for free – I am so grateful for my Ghanaian grandfather!
WHEN you see Olympic champions it’s often worth looking at their DNA.
Andy Murray would be a good example.
Mum was a good player and a fine coach.
Take the Brownlee brothers, the gold and silver winners in the triathlon.
In the Second World War their grandad Norman – by all accounts a tough old bird – served in the Merchant Navy.
The ship was sunk.
So what did he do?
He swum to the shore.
The only difference between him and his grandchildren . . . they had a bike waiting for them.
Switch for big savings
THANK you, Kelv. Column reader Neil Collins from Skegness, Lincs, tells me HSBC wanted £1,200 for his house insurance renewal and instead of paying took my advice and switched to LV for £300, saving an astonishing £900.
Same story with Paul Guppy from Northampton who faced a £677.04 bill for his car insurance despite having nine years of no claims, so he went online and found the Post Office was offering the same cover for £304, a saving of £373.
It doesn’t matter if you go to , Go Compare or the Meerkat but if you don’t switch you clearly have more money than sense. Do you?
Do send your saving stories to kelvin@ the-sun.co.uk.
IF you had bought £5,000 worth of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland exactly ten years ago how much do you think they are worth today?
£3,000? Wrong.
£1,000? Wrong.
£500? Wrong.
The exact figure is a shocking £191.
In new research, RBS come bottom of the 20 worst performing Footsie 100 stocks since July 2006.
And yet these tossers give customer advice at their branches on what to do with your money.
Ignore them – unless you want to go skint.
Physician, heal thyself comes to mind.
I DOUBT if you will drop a tear but I hear that a famous Premier League footballer has taken a substantial haircut on a house he is selling.
He put the shade-under-5,000-square feet joint in Weybridge, Surrey, on the market for £2.4million but has accepted around £2million.
Estate agents tell me that right now deals like this are the norm.
Stamp duty on a £2million house is around £170,000 which has knocked the market sideways.
Life on the Road - a welcome surprise
HAD no real expectations for the new David Brent movie and was wholly wrong.
If the early scene setter had been halved and there had been a couple more standout gags this film, in which Ricky Gervais starred, wrote and directed, would have been the work of genius.
Just like a horror film you had to turn away when he sang massively politically incorrect songs about Native Indians, kids dying etc, which were gut-wrenchingly funny.
I hope it’s the surprise success of the summer.