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MSE News: UK economy still in recession

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  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    julieq wrote: »
    So I wouldn't be looking at UK figures at all, look elsewhere for the moment.
    Good suggestion. It just makes me f'ckign depressed looking at our figures. Much rather look at China.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    edited 23 October 2009 at 12:35PM
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    I like bing called my love. :)

    Itb jut seems before these figures come out, whatever they are people get very excited about what it will or won't prove.

    It's really important, because before the figures came put it looked like my forecast last winter of the first growth in Q4 was going to be wrong, and now I still have a chance of boasting on the forum.

    Ya don't get no more important than that...
    lostinrates wrote: »
    Its reflecting the little pictures we all see, right? not changing them...?

    I think that these statistics do change the little pictures... these numbers get fed into the Bank Of Englands crazy mathematical models, and produce predicted future inflation in 6 months time. These predictions are used to decide how many bazillions of pounds will be printed next month. Currently, I think the answer will be many.

    p.s. My new computer is working again! I finally used the bank of england approach, and just spent loadsa money to fix the thing! Yay! I can interwub again!
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »


    I think that these statistics do change the little pictures... these numbers get fed into the Bank Of Englands crazy mathematical models, and produce predicted future inflation in 6 months time. These predictions are used to decide how many bazillions of pounds will be printed next month.

    yes, this I can understand, but its the future: they don't change what lead todays figures or where we are, individually: if things are worse than you thought but you are emloyed and had a pay rise...things are just worse thanYOU thought, and inversely in the same respect. Now, we know howit was for everyone else the last quater: now we gird our los for the next, which yes, I agree this feeds. I was more talking about th build up on the board, in the press, to this figure.
  • Generali
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    kennyboy66 wrote: »
    The 3 greatest PM's of the last 80 years are formed as much by circumstance as by the indivdual.

    Churchills political career would have looked a disaster without WW2
    Atlee was the right man for post war
    Thatcher had a conviction lacking in other politicians to force changes through. Right person, right time.

    Why does MacMillan(sp?) never get a mention? He was a very long serving PM so must have been pretty popular (nicknamed SuperMac) yet you never hear anything about him really. I know just about nothing about him apart from he was in Black and White and he had a really great quote about Africa.
  • kennyboy66_2
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    Generali wrote: »
    Why does MacMillan(sp?) never get a mention? He was a very long serving PM so must have been pretty popular (nicknamed SuperMac) yet you never hear anything about him really. I know just about nothing about him apart from he was in Black and White and he had a really great quote about Africa.

    He was an old school toff and resigned after being diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer in 1963.

    He died in 1986!
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  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Why does MacMillan(sp?) never get a mention? He was a very long serving PM so must have been pretty popular (nicknamed SuperMac) yet you never hear anything about him really. I know just about nothing about him apart from he was in Black and White and he had a really great quote about Africa.

    I remember when John Major took over from Thatcher and the Daily Mail quoted that he was going to be "A quiet man of steel".

    :o

    Still he seemed a decent enough sort - Brown and Blair make me queasy.
  • Generali
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    kennyboy66 wrote: »
    He was an old school toff and resigned after being diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer in 1963.

    He died in 1986!

    Why did he keep getting re-elected do you think?
  • bumpoowee
    bumpoowee Posts: 589 Forumite
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    Haha green shoots my !!!!. But at least house prices are going up so that will keep the idiots happy for now.
  • kennyboy66_2
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    Generali wrote: »

    I think the thing lots of people miss about Mrs Thatcher is that she attacked lots of entrenched interests.

    A great example of Doctors self regulation is John Bodkin Adams.
    A convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer. He was alledged to have killed 160 patients (132 of whom left him money in their will).


    He was struck off in 1957.

    Back working as a GP in 1961.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams
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  • kennyboy66_2
    kennyboy66_2 Posts: 2,598 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Why did he keep getting re-elected do you think?

    He only won 1 general election. He suceeded Eden after Suez in 1957, then subsequently won the election in 1959.
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