Looks like Northern Rock was just the start of credit crunch with Bear Stearns needing a huge federal pay out just to stay afloat today. JP Morgan were ‘advised’ to  buy Stearns for $1 a share to rescue the company and the USA from a huge fiscal implosion.

 There is only one way this can go now without a shadow of a doubt and that is down. No amount of Prime ministerial reassurance will halt the thought processes going through any investor or creditors mind. If George V Dubya thought he could go out on a high after the Iraq debacle, he was very wrong. Didn’t his dad once say “read my lips : no new taxes” and then swiftly be removed from office for messing up the American honey pot.

 Which financial institution will be next? Well it won’t be anything from the far east for the moment. In the UK HBOS group or Halifax and the Royal bank of Scotland have been hit heavily today wiping around 13% off their shares.  Chances are they’ll be fine and the smaller building societies will be hit hardest. Anyone who has interests in American investment better have an escape plan as we could be downsizing for the next five years or so.

 It is a real shame I didn’t invest in gold around 6 months ago as the price per Krugerrand was around £340 GBP.  Now it is nearer £530 per ounce which is a staggering rise which happened directly after the American credit crunch and Northern Rocks collapse in the UK. Of course, hindsight is always 20/20 but those guys in the wild west were right to deal in gold in their days of uncertainty.

 Gordon Brown’s tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer was bullet pointed as fruitful and the best period of financial stabilty in the UK for, well, possibly ever. Now we can see that he was riding the crest of the financial boom time and that all it took to ruin that was a lot of pikey Americans not paying their mortgage on home sweet home, or a trailer. Maybe he is cleverer than we think and pushed through the Euro thingy because he saw all this coming and knew that it could well be the end of the Bank of England if he didn’t. The Euro has jumped up to £0.76 GBP from £0.65 about six months ago. 

 This all means the UK is becoming cheaper to travel to and live in especially with free European trade discounts but Ibiza holidays are gonna be very expensive. Oh well.

Posted: March 17th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Just the other day I commented on how the new James Bond was so politically correct even new labour were turning up their noses to the chap. I harked on about how at least Pierce Brosnan had a bit of the Roger Moores about him with his womanising and irresposible driving. Of course Pierce advertised really manly products like Omega watches which were MI6 spec

Well Pierce Brosnan has gone and buggered that up by appearing in a L’Oreal vita lift commercial. Whats wrong with advertising diving watches or the new Aston Martin Vanquish or even a bloody Swiss army knife. They even keep good time. No. Oh no. I’m gonna advertise bloody hair care products “for the man who used to be a real man in James Bond”.

Pierce buddy, the last of the real Bonds has died and now he’s working as a make up girl on celebrity “dust me up and get me out of it”. Bollox. Roger Moore will always be my favorite.

Posted: February 28th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Hello and wilkommen to the England U21s. Theo Walcott is no stranger to the press since being in Sven Balls up golden Erricssons T-mobile’s world cup squad in 2006. Luckily for the little guy, he scored against another team when he was playing for, wait, England. Cool..

 Lets hope he can score against Luxembourg and Andorra for the grown ups next time.

Posted: February 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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..Deserve the fooking gallows. Always I would like to side with the innocent and the people who have fallen foul of the justice system but then there’s people who kill and then shag dead cadavers.

 The excuse is drugs and alcohol. Luckily the judge was actually awake in this trial and had no further engagements to go to that day. Therefore, guilty as charged, the defendant that is, to being one of lifes lowest amoebas. Hopefully he can’t split in two and replicate. The fact that he tried with a dead girl is a horrible idea. Err

Posted: February 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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 So super Tuesday is upon us or at least thats what the news teams accross the UK would like you to believe. After making such a huge gaffe in the 2000 American presidential elections by electing a guy more suited to South Fork than the Pentagon, all eyes are on the two front runners and it’s going to be one hell of a race.

 Common sense tells me that Americans need a change and that it needs to be big enough to excise the memories of Bush V Dubya. In the blue corner, I think, is Hillary Clinton, the former wife to the current prime president person, Billy Bob Thornton. She put up with her husband playing sax on Leno and playing nurse in the White House for eight years and now she wants her bite at the cherry. Sorry dear, that cherry has been bitten, chewed and spat out in to a copper bucket wild-west style by George the kid. What is left on her side is a long running American tradition; tradition. Thats not a keyborad slip.

 Having run America for two whole terms as Principal Skinner would Springfield elementary, Bill Clinton is a well known character and this gives Hillary the head start in the presidential battle. Think how much scandal was brushed under the carpet by the Kennedys for them to come out on top of the poles every time. Maybe it was the Donny Osmond smile or the slightly shaggy hair but looks and a sense of humour plus a bit of filandering go a long way in politics. Don’t get me started on Reagan.  Hillary is assured of the middle America vote mainly because she is married to a former President of the USA and she is white. Sorry to bring that up.

 Which takes us to Barrack Obama, the new kid on the block and a guy who is winning not just a regular spot on the Oprah show but a lot of support from Americans. Having had no marriage to a former president (yet) and not having done much filandering (wait till the White House), the only thing Hollywood could cast him as is the guy from Africa who lived the American dream and became President of the US of A. What could be better. The perfect script for Hollywood and hopefully for America and the world.

 Unfortunately for Barrack and the world, the guy ain’t white and I’m guessing that won’t go down to well with some old timers who probably wouldn’t vote for anyone unless it was to vote against someone getting in. The bookies are sceptical too with Hillary being 5/4 favorite, Mccain Chips 2/1 and Obama slipping down the table to 5/2.

 It’s be a real shame if Obama doesn’t get in this time but in all honesty I think he has left it too late with his campaign and maybe in another four years he’ll get another chance to lead the USA. On the other hand, the old-timers might not like the idea of a woman running the country and Mccain might slip in between the two to emerge as winner. Yeah right, and Al Gore will win a Nobel peace prize. Wait a…

Posted: February 4th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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 So poor old Havant go crashing out of the FA cup to Liverpool after making it all that way. Great name for a pun or two but unfortunately that will probably be the last we hear of them. It is great that lower division teams get the opportunity to play the likes of Liverpool and Man U and maybe one day we’ll see Havant or Accrington Stanley win the FA cup.

 Unfortunately the glory days of the FA cup are over and now what we see are the top clubs reserves playing the lower echelons of football leaguery.  I’m not surprised that managers do it as there is such a huge gap in performance between the two halves of the Premiership these days let alone lower leagues that fielding a your best players simply makes no sense.

Posted: January 26th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Don’t turn your back on James Bond cos he’ll be producing another film with a dodgy name in cinemas near you. Yes its that time again as the title of the 22nd James Bond film is anounced.

 And what a title too. Quantum of Solace. I suppose we’re too used to Live and Let Die and The man with the Golden Pants type names rather than something that might have an ounce of meaning behind it. Then again, who cares about meaning with a James Bond film. It’s meant to be about a womanising daredevil who sips a vodka Martini one minute then bashes the hell out of Rambo’s ugly brother in the jungle before rolling lucky sevens to win stacks of cash at a casino.

 Unfortunately Casino Royale ticked none of the obvious Bond boxes due to its new man political correctness policy. I mean, where the hell was Q? Or is Cleese meant to be P? I’d have taken a Zed as the letter doesn’t really matter as much as the charcter being missing from the film.

 So James Bond has turned into a no gadget girl-friendly chic-flick. At least Pierce Brosnan  had a bit of the old Bond left in him. He even advertised real  Bond like products like Omega watches that were  mini submarines down to 1000m and looked like MI6 standard issue. I imagine Daniel Craig will be plastered in Maybelline after the premiere of Quantum of Solace.

Posted: January 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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For the first time in 21 games, Spurs have (finally) beaten Arsenal in the most important competition of the year, the Carling Cup.  Cries of “Spurs are on their way to Wembley”  heard from White hart lane were not just a hollow remark based on a Spurs bus driver taking the wrong slip road off the A406, no, they were talking about the stadium and a final to be played there.

 Spurs played the better game and left Arsenal a bit confused as to the score being the wrong way around. Arsenal attacks were thwarted almost as soon as they were conceived by an impressively eager Tottenham side. 5-1 to the Spurs and Chelsea in the final. Sounds about right.

Posted: January 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Lets face facts, if Tottenham Hotspur were any good then they would have won some silver ware in the last ten years. Unfortunately there is more use for Duraglit than silver polish at white hart lane these days. Maybe they should all get a Kevin Keegan perm from the 80s to help with shooting in front of goal.

Arsenal verses Tottenham still provides a decent entertaining football match and although the Gooners normally give the Spurs a good roasting, the fans believe Keane and co can win.

Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Havinge realised that 12gbfree.com have deleted half of my Alice Ant homepage, I’ve re-jigged that site and added a pictures page @ aliceant.12gbfree.com/page3.htm.

Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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