John parris special cue brand new

[les147]

Now reduced to £550 + post

[Guy3103]

It seems like we have a snooker recession these days..

[hotpot]

We are in a recession . Our money is getting swallowed up just trying to get by week to week by the gas and electric companies , oil companies , councils , and worse of all this fu**** out of touch toffee nosed government .

[cueman]

Yep, I'm afraid this recession will hit a lot of people and if you think things are bad now you really haven't seen anything yet. The real cuts will happen next year and peak around 2015 before we are likely to see a recovery and proper growth.
Its boom and bust cycles that happen near enough every generation, people living beyond their means, borrow borrow borrow because everyone wants everything now rather than save their money and have it later and then they complain when the banks stop lending and want repaying!

I don't want this to go into a full scale discussion on economics but I actually think we needed a recession to get things a little bit back to normality. Spending and the general cost of everything has been rising well above inflation for years and now finally we are going to see people have to rein their horns in and being more prudent. Too many people wanting luxuries all the time, new TV's, cars, expensive clothes, renovating their homes and gardens because they see everyone doing it on TV. It had to end, I know far too many people wthl debts on lots of credit cards, not to mention their mortgage arrears whilst I didn't take that risk.

Sadly it will affect the cue makers and those selling cues because people haven't got that spare bit of money anymore, they might just have to lower their prices to become competitive with the asian market that are producing some very good cues and equipment at a fraction of the price, just like other businesses in the UK are in other areas.

[hotpot]

It was Margaret Thatcher who de-regulated the banks . You cant blame people for wanting nice things and getting them because the banks etc were chucking money at you left right and center , the outcome of that is they were lending money they did,nt have to people who could,nt pay it back .
Now you Got osborne and cameron giving tax cuts to the super rich whils hitting studends , single mothers , disabled people , people on benefits etc but are craftily playing one against the other .