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'Unemployment landslide' looms as 40% of small businesses consider closing down

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  • THX-1139
    THX-1139 Posts: 48 Forumite
    Really2 wrote: »
    It was the same in the 80s cold war etc, never happend and very less likely to this time.;)

    I know you are probably right but I am fascinated to see what is going to happen. If anything we'll gets lots of films in a few years postulating about what could have taken place.
    There is no tomorrow...
  • THX-1139
    THX-1139 Posts: 48 Forumite
    Really2 wrote: »
    Take the woolworth closing down sales no better offers than the start of this week.

    I know their sandwich boards still haven't been reduced. :D
    There is no tomorrow...
  • Phirefly
    Phirefly Posts: 1,605 Forumite
    The only way I can get my head around this attitude is by likening it to the buzz I get when inclement weather turns the nation to a standstill. But that's hardly in the league of sitting back and glowing with macabre glee at pending armageddon...

    Odd.
  • THX-1139
    THX-1139 Posts: 48 Forumite
    Try watching Dad's Army... :rotfl:
    There is no tomorrow...
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    THX-1139 wrote: »
    Try watching Dad's Army... :rotfl:

    I think you may be a fake gloomer.;) Very good.
  • Optimist
    Optimist Posts: 4,557 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    My nephew works in the Inland Revenue, the part that deals with bankruptcy. They do manage to get blood out of stones !
    They have been told to prepare for a massive increase in work after Christmas
    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

    Bertrand Russell. British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
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