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Ken Clarke Britain is on brink of 'meltdown'
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Ahh but now the pound is tanking against all other currencies, which will in turn increase the cost of our imports (we import virtually everything, export next to nothing )we all know where that will end in a couple of years, inflation.
Oil will certainly go on the rise again, the downturn stopped the Peak Oil phenomenon becoming a reality, but only temporarily. We are burning 3 barrels for every 1 discovered. Peak dicovery was in 1960. Last summers oil price will return in the medium term, that is a fact.
Of course Browns' incompetancy has partly taken us down this road. I believe Clarke was a much better chancellor than Brown ever was.
You should have bought those Shell shares a few weeks ago at 12.35 (8%yield) if you think that.'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 -
The trough that oil is in at this time will almost certainly mirror the trough in the economy, I wouldn't want to tie my money up for that long.
:rotfl: You sir are never going to buy a house.'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 -
I've already had 3, in '96 in '01 and '06, you don't buy on the way to bottom.
Pretty nasty those Bailiffs aren't they.'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 -
Margret Thatcher Milk Snatcher as Education Secretary stopped milk to children over the age of 7(?) in the early 70s. Many councils refused to stop milk supplies to schools for several years. I had 1/3rd of a pint after break every day in Surrey (Tory council) until I was 8. It was frozen in winter and sour in the summer which I hated despite loving milk.
Yes, I have a vague recollection of it still happening when I started teaching, and I was grateful to Thatcher when it fizzled out at the juniors.
As a child I was a milk refusenik, hating the stuff, but also feeling that I was being 'done' for not having the choice of a more palatable alternative, like orange juice. (I have another vague recollection that after WW2, 'poor' children were given free orange juice. I may have imagined this, but held a grudge about it anyway:-)0 -
I have no idea, never been in a position to know, I take it you have then ?, you have my sympathy.
Touchy
'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 -
I think you may be thinking of the Japanese (who also smoke a lot!) but have a much higher life expectancy....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
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