Rory Bremner on global economic meltdown

Bremner spoofs BBC news reporting on a "fictional" global economic meltdown, very very funny.

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[raininagen5]

Problem with making stuff like this into humour is that the act of laughing at it makes people feel they have done something about it. It's control propaganda.

[hyperauxia]

insightful and unappreciated comment; I have the same issue with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central from the US, however, humour can also bring attention to issues...it goes both ways

[MrNaffifire]

I loved it when he mocked Gordon Brown xD awsome

[pigeonkid4]

@raininagen5

An interesting point, but if you think that is Rory Bremner's agenda I would have to disagree strongly. He is a satirist.

[LoveioClarisaa444]

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[Wabeberu]

If only Peston could speak as lucidly as in the first piss take!

[sosaybrothernathan]

@mikeybrumbrum What the hell are you talking about, you moronic dolt.

[ianclivewright]

The system is called currency backed by a gold standard, this would promote fiscal responsibility, and stop governments playing with the currency.

The free market will regulate the rest. If the banks are aloud to go bankrupt because of their stupid reckless lending, then the reasonable loans will be bought up by more responsible lenders, the bad debt will be liquidated, and life will go on.

Government intervention caused this bubble, and more intervention will only make it worse.

[mikeybrumbrum]

next year British Telecom announces it forgot to pay its electricity bill for the last 50 yrd.

£10Trill plus interest = 5000 Zillion

year after, the water companies realise theyve misscalculated by 3 Gazillion Willion.

[ianclivewright]

Regulation doesn't work, never has, never will, it's just jobs for the boys. Capitalism should be regulated to some degree, health and safety etc, but in so far as doing business, that's for the market to decide(which it does anyway, whether we like it or not), in a free market interest rates would have risen to calm this bubble, a gold standard for currency would have forced fiscal dicipline.

Massive Corruption, Hyperinflation, a bad transition, agreed.

[ianclivewright]

Well it's not magic, just the way the world has operated since the dawn of time.

Unregulated capitalism, Freddie Mac, Fannie May, government institutions aren't they? The Federal Reserve, The Bank of England, government institutions aren't they?

Interests rates forced artificially low to cause a credit boom, didn't governments do that?

Blatantly false inflation figures, isn't that the governments doing?

Targets for housing? Lobbying by corporations?

Unregulated capitalism, yes please.

[ianclivewright]

But that would only be true if banks and corporations were not regulated. They are regulated, a lot, but it made no difference, and will never make a difference. It's rather obtuse to call for more regulation when all the previous regulation has failed?

The market is a force on its own, and we're all about to discover what happens when you hold back the dam for too long.

Of course you don't need free markets and capitalism, the Soviets managed without it didn't they?

Gibberish indeed.