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Ken Clarke Britain is on brink of 'meltdown'
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BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »Yes I'm sure it reminds him of the good old days under the goverment he was in:rolleyes:
2009 will be a bloodbath! - sounds like you can't wait you pl***er
Come to think about it, it is rather a melodramatic Term of phrase
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...took away milk from children,
thank God for that. I loathed being given milk at school when I was a child. I flat-out refused to drink it from the grand old age of 5....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Abandon all hope once you enter deflation
The price of white truffles has fallen 84pc. Fines wines have dropped 65pc. Lobsters are off 52pc. Deflation has reached the City. It has engulfed housing and now threatens to spread through the broader economy, lodging like a virus in the British and global monetary systems.
The curse of deflation is that it increases the burden of debts. Incomes fall: debts stay the same. This way lies suffocation.
"It is going to be absolute murder in Britain if inflation turns negative," said Professor Peter Spencer from York University. "The big difference with past episodes is that we are now much more heavily indebted. Few people owned their own houses in 1930s. Debts were miniscule."
Deflation has other insidious traits. It causes shoppers to hold back. They wait for lower prices. Once this psychology gains a grip, it can gradually set off a self-feeding spiral that is hard to stop.0 -
Ken Clarke left the country in fantastic position economically it really is unbelievable that Mr Clown (sorry Mr Brown), has managed to get us into this total mess. It yet even more unbelievable he now regards himself of some sort of messiah ..... he's not the messiah he just a silly boy .0
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »thank God for that. I loathed being given milk at school when I was a child. I flat-out refused to drink it from the grand old age of 5.
NDG did you have free milk at school? have you been fibbing about you age?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905853,00.html'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
NDG did you have free milk at school? have you been fibbing about you age?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905853,00.html
I've no idea whether it was free or not - I started school in 1981, when I turned 4. It was a GPDST school, not a state school. Don't know if that made a difference....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
NDG did you have free milk at school? have you been fibbing about you age?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905853,00.html
She didn't say it was *free* milk.
I had milk at primary school in 1992.0 -
She didn't say it was *free* milk.
I had milk at primary school in 1992.
No but the post she responded to inferred it was free because they said it was taken away.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »thank God for that. I loathed being given milk at school when I was a child. I flat-out refused to drink it from the grand old age of 5.
Two kids made to lug in the crates of milk.
Ice floating on the top of the bottle in winter. If you were one of the lucky ones, you managed to get a bottle where the birds had made a hole in the lid, so at least you had somewhere to poke your straw through.:D
Summer was worse, warm milk that had nearly gone off. We were forced to drink it and then some kids were sick, so we had the smell of that in the classroom....masked slightly by the smell of pine disinfectant. I still can't stand the smell of pine disinfectant.
Thank goodness they stopped forcing all that on children. Still, I doubt if the health and safety rules would allow them to do all that now anyway.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0
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