(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps thinks the recession we’ve been experiencing for the last 7 years is like ‘an amusement ride’.
He also suggests struggling families can survive the recession by investing in real estate, futures or bonds, eating ice cream and taking regular skiing holidays!
Obviously when people are actually struggling to feed their families, he wouldn’t dare say such an outrageous thing under his own name for fear it would affect his party’s electoral prospects.
So he didn’t.
He said it under his pseudonym, Michael Green, instead.
Michael Green refers to himself as ‘a successful online marketer’, ‘marketing guru’ and states ‘his wealth is such that he actually flies his very own personal plane and also lives in a fabulous mansion’.
But Grant Shapps, the Tory Party co-chairman, has admitted Michael Green is the pseudonym he uses to separate his business activities (which have been having some serious difficulties) from his political activities.
Mr Green/Shapps has produced what he calls a ‘self-help guide for negotiating your way to better times’ called ‘How To Bounce Back From Recession‘.
It can be downloaded for free from here if you want a copy:
In this strange document, Shapps likens the recession to an ‘amusement ride’ – and he also offers invaluable tips for the unemployed to survive hard times and feed their families.
Tips such as:
- Invest in real estate, futures or bonds
- Buy a house or vehicle
- Borrow money from a bank
- Take a skiing holiday (I’m not making this up, really)
- Learn to knit or play guitar
- Treat yourself to an ice-cream
So thanks to Mr Shapps invaluable advice – we as a nation now know where we’re going wrong when it comes to making ends meet.
Struggling families are not buying nearly enough houses, going skiing enough or eating enough ice-cream.
Talk about out-of-touch Tories ……….
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Pride's Purge 
Reblogged this on aspiblog and commented:
Tom Pride gives Mr Shapps/ Green/ Fox (Sebastian Fox is yet a third identity that this man has used!) some thoroughly well merited hammer.
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Green_%28humorist%29
@Tom. I thought the name Michael Green was familiar
One of my favourite funny books
” the art of coarse acting ” was written by him
It’s all about people are actually rubbish at anything but blag their way through everything to make themselves look clever
Seems rather apt to me
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Michael Green, Grant Shapps, Sebastian Fox (and alleged others). The many faces of a consummate cun’servative.
At least he has had the tory death knell and his time is short, for he has “the full support” of Camoron.
So long Mr Green/Shapps/Fox it was not nice knowing you.
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We have to act quickly to prevent the highly contagious Foot in Mouth Disease spreading from the Tory party to threaten us all. Cull the lot of them!
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Calling a book ‘How To Bounce Back From Recession’ is asking for inclusion on the Accidental Partridge Twitter Feed! Love, Barbara
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About the Author
About the author Michael Green:
Like all new business people, I had hoped that I would find that magic combination that
that
would grow my company into something really special.
of course I wanted to earn a good income, but I was looking for something more than
than
that
I wanted my business to take on a life of its own, to grow even when I wasn’t at
at
work, to provide me with a lifestyle and freedoms that few small businesspeople ever
ever
achieved.
Well that was the dream anyway!
But it didn’t take me long to discover that day-to-day trading in a new business can be a
long hard battle. Quite literally! Working days would start at the crack of dawn and
and
carry on through to late evening and beyond.
And the financial rewards were nothing for me to write home about either. Cash was
was
tight and the creditors were never far away from my door.
Something had to change, but what?
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Just to show you how condescending and out of touch the Tories really are, Tom Pride’s presents the advice unconvicted fraudster ‘Michael Green’ gave on how the unemployed could whether the recession.
This is just one example of how the Tories really don’t have any idea of the lives of ordinary people. It simply follows statements such as that of Lord Fraud, sorry, Freud, who said that poor people didn’t have to worry about the recession so much, as they had less to lose. Or the Tory grandee who thought that £50,000 was an average, modest income. Or even Malcolm Rifkind, who after being caught in yet another lobbying scandal last week, blandly declared that an MP couldn’t possibly live on £67,000. Well, most of the country does. There’s no reason why Rifkind should be any different.
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The howtocorp.org website has been recreated by artist Simon Farid, who is bringing Michael Green back and even goes so far as doing live performance and webinars. And it’s lottery funded! The project details are at http://housetheatre.org.uk/greenhouse/projects/upstream-how-to-bounce-back-from-recession-live-webinar-with-michael-green/ and he tweet from @MGreenHowToCorp I absolutely love it – nothing could be more ridiculous than the truth.
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Dishonesty and fraud is the Tory way of life
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Shapp’s is a cunt how can someone with no money invest in real estate, borrow money from a bank only if you never intend to pay it back, the Tory’s don’t deserve to get back into power for a very long time.
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My mum’s boyfriend is called Michael Green, but that’s his real name.
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http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/savile-scandal-abuse-report-published-in-may/ar-AA9Tl6w
SAVILLE SCANDAL ABUSE DUE IN LATE MAY
HOW IS THAT FOR TIMING
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What an utter prat!
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
Another Tory twit!
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…How the unemployed can whether the recession. …
I do hope it was Shapps who made the Freudian slip of weather and whether
The growth in jobs (97 per cent of the benefits bill including poor pensioners, where half of over 60s are within the working poor)
has been mostly in low waged jobs.
These jobs may be below the Lower Earnings Level,
which grants nil National Insurance credits and
so the workers are out of the welfare state and
will never get a state pension.
See why under my petition, in my WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT section, at:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
Weathering the recession is something the rich have done very nicely thank you, with their wealth have risen by half.
Meanwhile the poor have seen their money plunge by half, especially women.
The poor are being made homeless, starving, freezing in unheated homes and facing nil state pension for life, only pension provision in old age.
So the weather, when bitter cold and freezing fog, effects the poor, more than the rich, with inflation of energy bills far more as percentage of income to the poor and poor pensioners, than any other income level.
Now the poor outnumber all other voters, especially in England.
Neither Tories and Labour will gain sufficient to run a government, even with a partner in this predicted most severe hung parliament.
A coalition does not need to be just 2 parties, but can be several who between them reach a threshold of 323 MPs.
With the Scots SNP and Welsh Plaid Cymru gaining a fair few of these, there are other different logos to put your pencil cross against on Thursday 7 May in England, that would get rid of sitting Tory and Lib Dem MPs.
See how at:
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
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