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Pls suggest key election questions for the three parties

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  • Asheron
    Asheron Posts: 1,229 Forumite
    The UK government doesn’t own the bank of England.

    It’s the other way around actually.

    Central banks own governments.




    purch wrote: »
    It does.

    The Government owns the Bank of England, and uses the Bank that it owns to print the money that it needs.

    If you need to educate yourself on the ownership and governence of the Bank of England might I suggest you read the Bank of England Act of 1998, which is available at the Office of Public Sector Information website.

    http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980011_en_1
    As an investor, you know that any kind of investment opportunity has its risks, and investing in Stocks or Precious Metals is highly speculative. All of the content I post is for informational purposes only.
  • Asheron
    Asheron Posts: 1,229 Forumite
    Just because you can vote for some puppet now and again doesn’t mean that they’re going to hand over
    their power to your ‘elected leaders’ now does it?
    As an investor, you know that any kind of investment opportunity has its risks, and investing in Stocks or Precious Metals is highly speculative. All of the content I post is for informational purposes only.
  • Asheron wrote: »
    The UK government doesn’t own the bank of England.

    It’s the other way around actually.

    Central banks own governments.

    Bingo! :)

    But anyway back to the bread and circuses ...

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