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UK is back in recession, says OECD

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  • guitarman001
    guitarman001 Posts: 1,052 Forumite
    crash123 wrote: »
    Got to agree I think this will go on and on

    +1, was just going to say similar. Moving away really does seem the best option for anybody looking for a better life. I'm just glad I'm not shackled with a 35-year 6x mortgage like my friend...
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    gagahouse wrote: »
    Britain has very deep structural problems which aren't going away soon.

    To be fair to the current coalition is precisely what they've been saying.

    The trouble is everybody expects a magic wand to be waved. Days are gone when people actually worked harder themselves rather than expecting it to happen for them.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    I'm just glad I'm not shackled with a 35-year 6x mortgage like my friend...

    Being shackled to 35 years of ever increasing rent is worse....:cool:
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
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