Dick Durham goes to buy a boat

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However I still do not like the presumption that credit is good, great and easy for everything. This is why we are in this mess.

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With that I wholeheartedly agree. I also think the headline could have been better chosen, but if we flew into a rage over every misleading headline we would be an apoplectic nation indeed.
 
"Where am I promoting my website? secondly I am calm, very calm"


You promote your website by posting a provocative post with a high profile name. Readers then click on you name to fine out who you are, and what your credentials are etc etc. They then check out your website. You end up with a load more hits on your site, and have some good stats to help sell advertising space.

Am I just being cynical, or maybe its too many Lemsips??? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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if we flew into a rage over every misleading headline we would be an apoplectic nation indeed.

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We do & we are /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Ever listened to Moneybox Live or You & Yours on R4? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I'm writing to Trading Standards & OFPRESS as we speak /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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"Where am I promoting my website? secondly I am calm, very calm"


You promote your website by posting a provocative post with a high profile name. Readers then click on you name to fine out who you are, and what your credentials are etc etc. They then check out your website. You end up with a load more hits on your site, and have some good stats to help sell advertising space.

Am I just being cynical, or maybe its too many Lemsips??? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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Now your talking even more crap than I am which is saying something! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Yes you are being cynical
 
It was just a bit too much like propaganda, talking up something that isnt there. He said it was very busy, but clearly from the lack of people in the background it wasn't! In his closing remarks he talks about people firing broadsides at the show and the current situation, I suggest we revisit his claims once the show has finished, when the number of visitors, and numbers of yachts actually sold (not those with a £500 refundable holding deposit) will be known. I was told by someone in the trade that at the Southampton Boat Show one manufacturer, who would normally expect to sell about 20 yachts, sold less than 5. Its tough out there at present. Its all well and good being positive, which I support, but he paints a picture through rose tinted glasses in my view.
 
As his next door neighboor. (Well Moondancer is sitting next to Dick's boat on the hard at Paglesham) I feel I must defend the piece. Of course it was a positive spin - but it contained some well made points. Barclays seem keen to lend some money at very good rates and manufacturers are desperate to sell.

If youy are in a fairly secure position - and many people still will be - then now must be the best time to buy for a long time.
 
He obviously didnt listen as he stated twice he would be getting this loan for 3.5%, when what Barclays actually said was 3.5% above the base of 1.5% and the actual rate would be 5%
 
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I though it made the point quite well that you shouldn't stay away from the show because of the financial climate and anyway its as much a self-generated crisis as a real one.

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1) I'd say most people probably should stay away from the show because of the financial climate;
2) Who are we counting as 'self' in 'self-generated crisis'? Please count me out;
3) Even if 'self-generated', does it make it any less real?
 
I enjoyed the video if only because I now feel I know a bit more about DD beyond his writing style, he was not the yokel-local seadog I imagined.

What were you expecting, so it was not quite as slick as an edition of Panorama but then DD is a man of the written word. By contrast have you seen the new dumbed down Working Lunch on BBC2, probably worse than the DD piece and they are meant to be TV pro's.
 
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