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Alcassin
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 Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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I see what is coming:
On the election day Labour Party will be removed from House of Commons by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who are also completely incompetent to solve any major problem in UK. I think there is no rescue, North Sea is going to be dry soon anyway - infrastructure is build to operate on that resources. Is there anyone saying what will happen when Brent is no longer a benchmark in trade?
It was decision of Maggie Thatcher to suck the oil and gas as fast as possible and every Prime Minister since her followed. I often think labour party and conservatives are the same party - Iraq, police state, liberalization, privatization, credit expansion, creating policies by The City and for The City, building highways and destroying railroads...
Like two wings of the same party - and from this malaise two parties emerge - UKIP and BNP. I wonder about the future of UK if this trend continues.
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JPL
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| Denny wrote: | | Wouldn't the London Olympics coming in 2012 create a lot of construction jobs and spin-offs for some years to come? |
There isn't going to be a 2012 Olympics. Even if there was, they'd have to clear the stadium with tear gas first.
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MrBean
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| jake wrote: | hmm... he seems to have gone absolutely mad as well. check out the top video here: link
... he just keeps repeating himself again and again and again and again as if he's in some kind of weird loop! |
Really bizarre. BBC showing latest Beckettian piece of Theatre of Absurd?
Or is this guy really in charge of UK economy? |
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threadbear
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| JPL wrote: | | Denny wrote: | | Wouldn't the London Olympics coming in 2012 create a lot of construction jobs and spin-offs for some years to come? |
There isn't going to be a 2012 Olympics. Even if there was, they'd have to clear the stadium with tear gas first. |
Gosh JPL, Maybe there will be an Olympics, the events might just be different than the ones we're used to. Who is going to get the gold for pole vaulting over mountains of debt? Who can skate on the thinnest ice, both metaphorically and literally? |
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dorlomin
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| Denny wrote: | | Wouldn't the London Olympics coming in 2012 create a lot of construction jobs and spin-offs for some years to come? |
It barely makes a dent on the employment rate in the borrough of Newham where it is based let alone the entire UK nation. |
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dorlomin
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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Darling: Its not we're all Fark Blackader, its your all Fark. |
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GASMON
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| EndOfGrowth wrote: | | KevO wrote: | | Darling, god bless him, saying this and swearing as well suggests that we're so far up crap creek that we've fogotten there was ever a paddle. party time! |
Yep and we don't even know where we are going. Brace for impact! |
Think were going here !!!
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EndOfGrowth
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| GASMON wrote: | | EndOfGrowth wrote: | | KevO wrote: | | Darling, god bless him, saying this and swearing as well suggests that we're so far up crap creek that we've fogotten there was ever a paddle. party time! |
Yep and we don't even know where we are going. Brace for impact! |
Think were going here !!! See photo Gasmon's post |
 Anyone for a game of Shitstorm?
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JPL
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| threadbear wrote: | | Gosh JPL, Maybe there will be an Olympics, the events might just be different than the ones we're used to. Who is going to get the gold for pole vaulting over mountains of debt? Who can skate on the thinnest ice, both metaphorically and literally? |
There is a shred of hope - if the UK govt. can persuade Argentina to re-invade the Falklands again, we might be able to get through 2012 on patriotic ferver. Apart from that, the games are more likly to be the only sport the British were ever good at (grin).
Do you realise there is no other nation on the planet that has been at war with EVERYONE else at some time in the last 300 years? USA, check, Russia, China, check. Germany, France, yep check as well. Japan, check. etc. etc. Everyone else was either under British rule or praying to whatever gods they believe in that these lunatics never appear over the horizon again.
Ahyhow, I digress. The British in the 19'th & 20'th centuries used to f**k the rest of the world. Now in the 21'st we are going to have to f**k each other. This is so not good...
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Jack_Curmudgeon
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| Quote: | | UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
You can call it being doomerish, I call it being realistic.
But was it wise? I wonder how this will affect the markets, foreign investment and the pound sterling on Monday? I suspect that it'll make the general public more reluctant than ever to spend. |
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idiom
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| evilgenius wrote: | | It would be funny if it weren't true. I agree with a lot of what you have said. There is a terrible hoodie problem in the UK, I have seen it firsthand. It is very common to hear people talk about how worried they are about violent or disrespectful and obstinate youth. |
Lol, you need one of these:
| Quote: | It was intended to reverse negative attitudes and smooth the animosity over hooded tops. But Hoodie Day ended in a spat of its own when National Party MPs boycotted it, claiming it had been hijacked by Labour.
MPs from political parties - including Labour, National, the Greens and Maori Party - had agreed to support yesterday's Hoodie Day, which was organised as part of Youth Week to dispel the intimidating image of the hoodie - a hooded sweatshirt.
However, when MPs assembled for a photo, National's Paula Bennett and Nicky Wagner were missing.
Ms Bennett said that a few weeks ago she accepted an invitation to take part, but it became clear this week that the photo-op had become a "Labour Government thing". |
NZ Herald
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Quinny
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:54 am Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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Of course without the damn store!
| GASMON wrote: | | EndOfGrowth wrote: | | KevO wrote: | | Darling, god bless him, saying this and swearing as well suggests that we're so far up crap creek that we've fogotten there was ever a paddle. party time! |
Yep and we don't even know where we are going. Brace for impact! |
Think we're going here !!!
See photo Gasmon's post |
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untothislast
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:51 am Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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| KevO wrote: | | JPL wrote: | | There isn't going to be a 2012 Olympics. |
that is the correct answer |
Yes there will. Only the gold medals will be replaced by promissory notes. |
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Quinny
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:31 am Post subject: Re: UK Chancellor gets all doomerish |
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It's unprecendented for a senior politician in power never mind the chancellor to talk down the economy like that! but...... Maybe he's not !
Gulp! |
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