The Painspotter's Guide to Broken Britain: 50 People to Love, Hate, Blame, Rate
Author(s): Andrew Holmes (Author)
Publisher: Capstone
Publication Date: October 12, 2009
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1906465711
ISBN-13: 9781906465711
Book Description
Welcome to Broken Britain! MPs are blaming ‘The System’ for their thieving behaviour. Bankers have burnt through more cash than President Mugabe and still been bailed out. Britain is Broke. Only one thing’s going to sort this mess out – some good old-fashioned finger pointing. It’s time to take revenge… Painspotting style.
Let the Painspotting commence! This book is more effective than Prozac and cheaper than therapy. You may be angry, you may be mad, you may even be institutionalised, but put the baseball bat away, hang up your lynching rope, and let the Painspotting commence!
50 of the best Love them, hate them, blame them, rate them: The Painspotter’s Guide to Broken Britain introduces the 50 most frightful characters you’ll meet in a financial crisis, so prepare to laugh out loud at the Frightened Fat Cat, the Miserable Middle Class, the Self-help Saddo and many more.
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
Unless you’ve been living in a cave in the Outer Hebrides, or under a stone in some ancient woodland, then you’ll have witnessed first-hand the misery of this so-called ‘Credit Crunch’. Recessions come and go, but this one just keeps on coming – and apart from MPs, who always seem to find new allowances to see them through, no-one is spared.
Thankfully, this little book of vitriol gives you the opportunity to play the blame game and lighten your load by indulging in the phenomenon known as Painspotting.
From the Gravy Train Politician to the Self-Righteous Tightwad, from the Desperate Estate Agent to the Savvy Squatter, you’ll recognise many of the frightful characters you’re likely to meet (and perhaps prefer to avoid) in a financial crisis.
Who knows, you might even spot yourself!
From the Back Cover
MPs are blaming ‘The System’ for their thieving behaviour. Bankers have burnt through more cash than President Mugabe and still been bailed out. Britain is Broke. Only one thing’s going to sort this mess out – some good old-fashioned finger pointing. It’s time to take revenge…Painspotting style.
Love them, hate them, blame them, rate them: introducing the 50 most frightful characters you’ll meet in the financial crisis.
This book is more effective than Prozac and cheaper than therapy. You may be angry, you may be mad, you may even be institutionalised, but put the baseball bat away, hang up your lynching rope, and let the Painspotting commence!
About the Author
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 25th Century.
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