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Anyone else remember how bad it was under the last Tory government.
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islandannie wrote: »Anything you can post to disprove my statements.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mfsd/iadb/Repo.asp?Travel=NIxIRx
a link to the bank of england website showing that the interest rate was 15% under the callaghan government in 1976 should do then.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mfsd/iadb/Repo.asp?Travel=NIxIRx
a link to the bank of england website showing that the interest rate was 15% under the callaghan government in 1976 should do then.
Can you read?
Or are you a Tory clone?
No 15% there for me.Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-
Orwell.0 -
islandannie wrote: »Can you read?
Or are you a Tory clone?
No 15% there for me.
Arsene Wenger, is that you?
Look for 7 October 1976 - if you have problems finding it in the chronological list, it's got the number "15.00" next to it, in the "Rate" column. Happy hunting.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »what do you accept as "evidence"
don't waste your time mate....annie never posts any evidence....and then when you post any evidence she either ignores you or says its not evidence.If you find yourself in a fair fight, then you have failed to plan properly
I've only ever been wrong once! and that was when I thought I was wrong but I was right0 -
islandannie wrote: »Can you read?
Or are you a Tory clone?
No 15% there for me.
Obviously your eye sight needs testing again....because its quite plain to seeIf you find yourself in a fair fight, then you have failed to plan properly
I've only ever been wrong once! and that was when I thought I was wrong but I was right0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »Arsene Wenger, is that you?
Look for 7 October 1976 - if you have problems finding it in the chronological list, it's got the number "15.00" next to it, in the "Rate" column. Happy hunting.[/quotIt1s unfortunate that the figures you show when exceeding 15%% were undere a Tory government.
Do you remember Nigel Sweating and shaking?Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-
Orwell.0 -
can't even work the quote thing yet?
no i don't remember - i was either at school, or playing with lego, or both.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mfsd/iadb/Repo.asp?Travel=NIxIRx
a link to the bank of england website showing that the interest rate was 15% under the callaghan government in 1976 should do then.
Being a mortgage holder at the time,I remember it well.
Along with prices going up everytime you went shopping.
By the way what is it with some folk on here only wanting to believe what suits them?
No matter what your political views,Labour always screw up,it's a fact.We always end up like this.
It's just this time they've realy outdone themselves.0 -
islandannie wrote: »What created the most humiliating financial crisis this country has ever had ?
I'd guess that would be Labour in the 1970s - oh the shame of going cap in hand to the IMF.
But you wouldn't know anything about that would you Troll?0 -
MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »No matter what your political views,Labour always screw up,it's a fact.We always end up like this.
It's just this time they've realy outdone themselves.
Exactly. Has there been a single time when a Labour government has not ended in recession?
Not one single time.
Financially incompetent.0
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