The Painspotter's Guide to Broken Britain 50 People to Love, Hate, Blame, Rate

by Holmes, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781906465711
• ISBN10: 1906465711
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-12
• Publisher: Capstone

Summary

With recent setbacks in the financial system, politicians and policy-makers, the housing market, and jobs, The Painspotting Handbook provides an amusing insight into the worldwide recession. This handbook explores fifty hilarious caricatures and descriptions of people who emerged from the recession. Through a humorous approach, the book goes into detail on characters like the Enthusiastic Estate Agent, the Overpriced-Property Developer, and The Cohabiting Divorcee. The Painspotting Handbook is just the antidote needed to take the crisis out of the credit crunch and rise out of the recession.

Author Biography

ANDREW HOLMES is someone who is deeply affected by everyone around him – mainly negatively, you understand. This is a man who deliberately fills up his glass so that it’s always half-empty, as it gives him something to complain about. When he is not scowling at people in the street, you will find him living in a bivouac in an ancient Hampshire forest, well away from the credit crunch.

DAN WILSON is trained as a transforming robot Jedi ninja and regularly scribbles over boundaries betwixt low and high brow art. A fan of decreating remolicious words, he has won innumerable awards for nothing special and hopes to achieve inter-spatial awareness sometime soon. Dan lives with his family in a post-postmodern treehouse, and plans on retiring to the Sea of Tranquility in the 25^{th Century.}

Table of Contents

The end of boom and bust

Acknowledgements

Let the bad times roll

The About to Retire Retiree

The Bailout Beggar

The Buy-to-Let Basket Case

The Cash Finder

The Celebrity Money Saver

The Cohabiting Divorce

The Conspicuous Consumer

The Credit Crunch Scrounger

The Deadbeat Debtor

The Desperate Estate Agent

The Disposed of Worker (previously known as Our Most Important Asset)

The Downwardly Mobile

The Dubai Deserter

The Economic Rioter

The Economically Stressed

The Elusive Tax Evader

The Escaping Entrepreneur

The Ex, Expat

The Extended to breaking point Family

The Financial Oracle

The Frightened Fat Cat

The Good Lifer

The Gravy Train Politician

The Grumpy Undergraduate

The Humbled (but still incredibly wealthy) Bank Boss

The Irate Investor

The Living Big Loser

The Low-Bonus Banker

The Miserable Middle Class

The Newly Liberated

The No Responsibility Regulator

The Not Quite Such a Master of the Universe

The Nuevo Altruist

The Organic Food Fly-by-night

The Out of Touch Politician

The Outbound Immigrant

The Petty Thief

The Pissed-off State Pensioner

The Ponzi Schemer

The Pseudo Rich

The Relegated Rich

The Repossessed

The Savvy Squatter

The Secure Civil Servant

The Self-help Sado

The Self-righteous Tightwad

The Taxed to Death

The Unabashed Bankrupt

The Worthless Degree Holder

Afterword - The Blame Game

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