We're getting there...

Can I make one request please,

If you can hand "old chubby" a towel before he starts his questioning,

I think this would be beneficial in two ways, either he'll be able to wipe the sweat from his pudgy round face, or it'll give him something to throw in hopefully when he realises what sort of answers he'll be getting.

Good luck for tomorrow !!!!!

6.45am - bloody hell. Okay, I'll get up early especially just for you FP.

Is there a non-stickied post about this on the forum? It's quite easy to miss time-sensitive pinned threads.

Good luck. Keep it calm, don't be shrill. If they try to throw you off, brush it aside.

I wouldn't do the BoE are incompetent thing again, don't think the majority of the public are ready to accept that.

Good luck dude, remember calm talking and you'll come across as more natural.

Fair play to you, you're certainly doing good.

best of luck- i'm sure you'll make the fat pig squirm

it would be good if someone could post a link to it tomorrow

OOh - I'll have to get up early to get ready for work before the show starts - Good luck - Go for it!

FUBRA are recording

Thanks Jonathan,

I'll be listening. Your last two interviews were just brilliant! This one will be as well.

This is my normal cereal-eating-whilst-watching-BBC-Breakfast time. Then, once the local news bulletin ends at 7.00am, it's brush my teeth and out the door, and at my workdesk by 7.25am.

I am sad.

Anyhoo - I'll be v.much looking forward to tomorrow's slot Jonathan. Good luck.

25 minutes to work - I should be so lucky!!

Me too. Good look JD.

I know alot of people who watch BBC Breakfast first thing, although I'm an internet man myself.

Ooh er missus...

plug the site and get the knife into BTL (that is the markets achilees heel) get them spitting into their cornflakes(own brand) on their 3% yeilds - rent not covering half the repayments et al-have a word with declan to get him not to dismiss you as a doomsayer as others have done.

good luck mate - were all with you

you are "seconds from greatness"

keep the faith
ianbeale

if you get a chance, ask the fat fk why he thinks high house prices are so good

To get the daily news I mean...

Best of luck!!We`ll all be watching...

A free pint for each of the following phrases that you manage to get in:

"A whole new meaning to the word, 'Panic'"

"The only thing worth selling will be tickets to the show"

"Last time, 20% inflation kept the crash down to 18% average falls. How much inflation do you think we'll have this time around."

"Dont' confuse supply and demand with supply and desire. Wanting to buy a house is one thing. Having the credit to buy it is another thing altogether."

"Someone should tell Gordon Brown that the first part of 'No more boom and bust' is 'No more boom.' We've just had an unprecedented boom in property prices. No prizes for guessing what's next."

If anyone gets shirty, just ask them the current valuation of their own property portfolio.

Shouldn't you be in bed??




15 mins for me, either driving or cycling, if I don't have a meeting .

Well I just have to manage to manoeuver myself downstairs and then plonk my behind onto this chair. Doesn't take more than a minute on a good day.

..and i'd probably better be getting to bed if I want to catch Mr Davis in his element.

Yadda yadda-we believe you, zillions wouldn't

Jocularities aside best of luck FP-don't know if bambino will permit mother hen to fit in enough zzZZZZZs between now and then~sidelong glance at gurgley bundle of joy on playmat~altho by the looks I may still be up then. Sock it too 'em, tell it like it is and remember like Obi-wan to Anekin (god my kids would slay me for spelling that wrong ) forwarn deckers that you have the high ground so no funny business

Edit: cos i couldnt even fkn spell slay right Im so knacked lol

House price discussion.

defo 1-0 to hpc so far

brilliant stuff, fp was very very good

congrats to FP. This is when the sheeple start to open their eyes

Well done FP...you certainly made the mortgage broker sweat!

Nice one FP. Short and sharp, and probably a little too short.

So, Declan wants to know what house prices will be at the end of the year... just shows how short sighted he is.

i can put this up on youtube but i don't want to steal fubra's thunder as i suspect they will be posting it somewhere
edit - dyslexier (pun)

Well done FP you were brilliant!!

Nicely done FP. I thought you pitched it about right.

The other guy came over quite well too.

I'd call it a no-score draw. The HPC case needs a bit longer to get across unfortunately.

Good but short. By the time Joe Public realised it was on, many have missed it

Unfortunately I am at my desk so please post the salient points

Don't forget BBC2 8pm this eve

12 minutes for me (walking)
2 minutes by car (drive there if I have to go on business)

Please put up on you tube.

I think this is going to be repeated again on BBC Breakfast at 8.20am.

Link?

Well done FP - Excellent work.

You had a command of the figures which made you look much more considered and intelligent than Mr Mortgage, and very punchy summaries across several important arguments. Unfortunately I think that the concepts developed and discussed at length on this site are simply too complicated to get across in a few minutes to the majority of the public. When they've been fed of a diet of property hype for the past few years there's a lot of collective brainwashing, wishful thinking and sloppy analysis to counter.

Fortunately there's the Truth About Property on tonight which does gently explore a load of wider issues - and hopefully leaves enough space for viewers to form their own opinions contrary to the hype. I still have some confidence in the public (and the BBC) as a result.

I find it incredible that the media's major criticism of HPC.co.uk is that it's been around too long, and therefore must be wrong. But you made excellent use of the Somerset-Webb defence about dying to counter that - very succinct.

Mr Mortgage (sorry, didn't catch his name - he was very anonymous) did undo himself at the end by saying confidence was the major driver, and giving worthlessly hopeful predictions of "between 0 and 5% growth" over an undefined period. Like asset prices ever flatline! I wouldn't trust him with my dinner money.

Still, Declan pointed out his inconvenient truth: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." (Upton Sinclair, popularised by Al Gore). And his answer clearly ducked the major point that his whole industry is trying to increase everyone's debt, peddling the myth that rising house prices are a good thing.

Duplicate thread: http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...showtopic=59353

Nice one, Jonathan

A bit daunting, no doubt. How hot are the studio lights nowadays?

Trust the Beeb to put it on a bit later than usual! But it did mean I got to see it. Quick dive for the video remote, managed to record half of it.

Great. Please do. Any chance you could email me the recording? PM me. Ta muchly.

uploading now - click on my sig link in about 5 mins

Outstanding! You clinically dispatched the supply and demand argument with your link to the availability of credit.

I particularly loved, "What? In two months time? Er, £200,000."

It made you look like the only person in the room with any grasp of the subject.

Is anyone posting it on Youtube??

<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oh0lUDUFDMY"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oh0lUDUFDMY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>

edit - !!!

just click on the link!

[quote name='thirdwave' date='Oct 25 2007, 08:45 AM' post='821663']
Is anyone posting it on Youtube?
click on my sig link

Er, come again? Appreciate the help but please explain that gobbledook.

that was a way (apparently) to embed it onto this website

any techies out there?

if you click on my signature link , you can get it there

try this
http://www.youtube.com/swf/cps.swf?video_i...=1&border=0

Good work FP.

How do I save it to my hard drive? It shows as HTML file when I Save Target As.

hard to do - youtube don't like you doing it (you can get software to do it)

I can send it to you via disk snail mail, or e-mail it (12 mb) if your e-mail account will accept that size

Nice one FP

One thing I always tell people is to look at a graph comparing US house prices and UK house prices and over the long run they just about follow each other. Nobody's arguing that house prices are falling over there so unless we are in a completely new world, it's logical to see it happening here too, especially in today's global credit market.

Anyway, your job will be done pretty soon when the next batch of figures come out...you'll just be going on saying I told you so :-)