[quote=patientrenter]Those who lived through the 1970’s in the UK will remember the inflation and general financial mess. The UK is capable of much worse financial perfidy than even our beloved Treasury and Federal Reserve.[/quote]
There was a great parody of “Our House” from the Spitting Image folks that was posted to YouTube a while ago … it’s been taken down but here are the lyrics. Keep in mind these lyrics go back to the early ’90s or so.
Dad believed what Maggie said
Get a mortgage buy a home
So Dad took out a great big loan
For a while there we were chuffed
Now the market has collapsed
And we’re absolutely stuffed
Our house, in the middle of a slump
Our house, no one wants to buy this dump
Dad is desperate to sell
But now our home’s worth even less
Than a pension from Maxwell
Our living room’s a mess
Full of magistrates and bailiffs
Trying to repossess
Our house, in the middle of the boom
Our house, it was worth a small fortune
Our house, left us in a dreadful state
Our house, why the hell’d we decorate
We really caught a cold
Nowhere we can go to now
All the council houses have been sold
Our dad’s taken some stick
He’s still voting Tory though
By God he must be thick
Our house, didn’t work out like we planned
Our house, prices dropped by fifty grand
Our house, threw us out and changed the locks
Our house, it is now a cardboard box
