It's obviously affected the BBC...
They now have too few staff working for their news team, so they have to steal ideas from b3ta rather than wasting time thinking up proper debates in which the answer won't be "Oh my gosh! Tarquin and I now only shop in Waitrose once a month!"

newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5955&edition=1&ttl=20090123104403

PS. A recession doesn't happen until the economy has been shrinking for two quarters. In the last quarter the economy still grew, just at a lower rate. There is not a recession yet. Please ignore the proganda.
(Papa Chocolat, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 10:49, 5 replies)

Er
Don't know where you get your figures from, but there have now officially been two successive quarters of negative growth. According to the Office for National Statistics anyway, and it's their job.

See: www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4321675/UK-recession-its-official-but-will-it-be-the-worst.html

(apologies for linking to the Torygraph, it was the first one I found though)
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 10:53, closed)

But try as I might
I can't ignore the 'proganda' - it's attached to my bloody house!



Oh, sorry, that's a 'verandah'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 11:22, closed)

Oh Monty...
Late night?
That was cringe-worthy...
( Cawl, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 11:51, closed)

Actually yes mate
3am.

Silly, silly boy that I am.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 12:33, closed)

Oh dear
People just can't stop perpetuating the verandah propaganda.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 13:58, closed)