..She's back! Everyone's favourite home-owner-ist and property-porn queen Kirsty Allsop is getting a new show called "Kirsty's Homemade Home" where she encourages the mortgaged masses to make their own blinds and rummage around in skips for stuff to steal from rival home-owner-ists salvage!
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She also gives her views on why the UK is in such a dire mess, well worth a read.
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She also gives her views on why the UK is in such a dire mess, well worth a read.
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'she concedes that perhaps her world view is “totally unrealistic and over-idyllic”.'
That's the whole essence of Home-Owner-Ism, isn't it? Selling people a dream - for a vastly inflated price. It's no better than peddling heroin.
oh yes, and it's not a new show, it's a new series of an existing show.
The one that cracked me up was her rant about people doing homework - much better to just rush in and pay the asking price huh?
Still she is an influencial person, stealing stuff from skips might catch on with KA behind it.
The housing bubble is, IMHO, almost directly attributable to Phil and Kirsty. (I might be being slightly melodramatic)
Old episodes of Location, Location seem to be on television constantly (or perhaps it's just televisions controlled by my wife), and their advice is (or was) consistently -- housing is a great investment, prices are only going up, you must buy now. Little acceptance of the economics of bubbles penetrated their presentations. Thus all those poor sods are done for one year later, when their £360,000 flat in a terraced house is unsellable.
Then, insult to injury, Kirsty makes a "build your own Christmas" TV programme to help with all the cash strapped negative equity lost souls. That programme was insanity. She spent hours making Christmas tree decorations -- and got her dogsbody employee to do the hard graft. I'm sure in Kirsty's world, that was lots of money saved, on planet real, a quick trip to pound land sorts you out with any quantity of decorations at a far smaller time and money cost than Kirsty's supposed money saving methods.
She, and most of the property experts on the TV, don't have a clue what damage they are doing. They are persuading the middle classes that they "need" a bigger kitchen, and that "if you just knocked this wall down, all your Christmases will be white". When interest rates start creeping back up, these poor sods are going to be even more screwed over, and Kirsty told them to do it.
Sarah Beeney at least had the decency to prefix the financial analysis at the end of the show with "of course all the houses in the street have gone up in value, so they haven't really made a profit".
Sorry.
I’m very opinionated and I think about things a lot. Yes, and, clearly no you fucking don't.
Thanks for the heads up M, where's that plug-in timer?
I shall have to arrange for the TV to develop a mysterious 'signal existence failure' round about it's scheduled hour....
@Onus P, did you have to bring up that ghastly Christmas show of hers?
Mrs. C (remo def) insisted on watching it, I still have the psychological scars. 'Popping round to the workhouse with some nourishing carrot and turnip tops', forelock tugging yokels, and all that stuff.
This sounds like more of the same, but less?
NickM at counting kitties had the definitive review of that ghastly show.
e.g.
'There are wildebeast on the plains of Africa with more sagacity. The hell with that! There are things scuttling on ragged claws across abysmal trenches in the Pacific that could beat her at Ludo. She is thicker than a hippo sandwich and denser than a neutron star.'
I'd recommend it to anyone considering watching this latest effort....
Don't knock Kirstie too hard, her X-times-great-grandad helped make Burton on Trent a brewing powerhouse. That's how the family got the wealth (and the peerage) to enable her to tell the peasants how to live.
The EU will put a stop to it when harmonises tenancy law across the EU, giving UK tenants the same rights as tenants on the continent.
Don't think they're not planning it..
Has she eaten her hat yet? The one that she promised to do if house prices went down.
She's the sort of woman who got where she got because of nothing but connections. Working for posh magazines, because you're posh and then getting a job in TV because you're some posho's friend (TV is full of poshos making crap because they knew other poshos which is why the Internet is giving it such a kick up the arse right now).
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