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Petrol Threat To Cons Chances
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A Badger You could be right - disaffection all round! Whats your opinion of Ming? He and Vince have been grinning a lot lately! (theyre the only ones , mind you!) Everyone else is mis!0
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Fuel goes up under Labour = redistribution / taxing the rich / sorting out the environment.
Fuel goes up under Conservative = thieving b@st@rds.
See the logic?
That's radio Labour.
Fuel going up under conservatives, apart form limited VAT increase, isn't actually helping anything, they aren't trousering the direct benefit in the exchequer either. It is just reducing consumption on other items. Appreciate that devaluing sterling has other "benefits".
As you point out under Labour it was a direct tax take under the banner of saving the planet."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
6% above inflation?! Good god.
Yes, and for some unaccountable reason, Gordon Brown is still an MP when, in a properly run society, he would be in prison (or worse) for having frittered away our gold reserves - a decision which looks more wrong-headed as every week passes.
DLW thinks people have forgotten. They haven't!0 -
DecentLivingWage wrote: »A Badger You could be right - disaffection all round! Whats your opinion of Ming? He and Vince have been grinning a lot lately! (theyre the only ones , mind you!) Everyone else is mis!
Geriatrics often grin. It means little0 -
Hmmmnnn, he was singing a very centre left tune on QT (probs loving Cleggs discomfiture after leadership contest!)
Heres the petrol article : Soaring Petrol Threat
http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/01/25/new-uk-fuel-price-rises-are-imminent/0 -
for having frittered away our gold reserves - a decision which looks more wrong-headed as every week passes.
Wasn't the sale of gold more complicated than just Brown dumping it for the dosh? Saw a Kaiser item that suggested it was helping prop up the banking system or at least banks that needed to get their hands on gold cheap to stop them going bump? Any truth in that or was it fabricated?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Wasn't the sale of gold more complicated than just Brown dumping it for the dosh? Saw a Kaiser item that suggested it was helping prop up the banking system or at least banks that needed to get their hands on gold cheap to stop them going bump? Any truth in that or was it fabricated?
Sounds like a fairy story to me TBH.
The Brown sale of gold, while particularly useless in hindsight, was part of a secular shift away from holding gold in reserve by Central Banks:
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grizzly1911 wrote: »Wasn't the sale of gold more complicated than just Brown dumping it for the dosh? Saw a Kaiser item that suggested it was helping prop up the banking system or at least banks that needed to get their hands on gold cheap to stop them going bump? Any truth in that or was it fabricated?
Kaiser?! There's a reason he is on Russian TV....0 -
Kaiser?! There's a reason he is on Russian TV....
Appreciate he isn't everyone's cup of tea and some things are a bit off the wall but do you or anyone know if their is any truth in the comments he made re the gold sell off?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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