£1,300,000,000,000 in debt

[scooterscot]

ok France 5 England 1

happier now Sas ?

Milan.

Simple minds eh, where would the UK be without them?

[AtW]

How is this UK 0, when we make the wings, eh?

It might be -10 soon - Airbus is in trouble, specifically 380 project - they will cut costs, and since having huge wings so far away from base is not wise, and because the French and the Germans bear brunt of the project anyway, it would make sense for them to cut out UK completely. It has not happened yet, but I think it will.

[sasguru]

Simple minds eh, where would the UK be without them?

Ah, the irony. Please see previous post.

HTH

[scooterscot]

The UK is the second largest aerospace manufacturer in the world after the US, you ignorant dolts

Do try doing some research before mouthing off - you just make fools of yourselves

Now who is living in the basement, BrittishWasteofSpace, no 2nd anymore... perhaps 20 years ago.

[milanbenes]

LOL

Milan.

[sasguru]

Seems like trhe vcillage idiots are out in force.

[andy]

Seems like trhe vcillage idiots are out in force.

if you can't beat them join them :

[where did my id go?]

The end is nigh only for those

who ...

And don't change their car every year.

And don't spend all they earn every month.

so those of us who run an older car (not on credit) and save every month are fscked you think?

(still no grammar one I see)


And sorry for interrupting the argument. I'll be off now.

[Euro-commuter]

Sorry, but your post is a perfect example of unbridled caledonian pessimism - cheered me up enormously as I was thinking something similar yesterday.

I want to be Chancellor when I grow up.

[Euro-commuter]

Maybe the solution is to have global minimum time limit on shareholding - say you can buy shares but you must keep them for at least X years before selling them. This would force companies to actually have long term planning and return money to shareholders via dividends like it was happening for centuries, rather than in form of inflated share price value achieved by short term cost cutting.

There you go again (tm). In the world according to AtW, the solution is always a law to force people to do what AtW thinks they should do.

Do you never grasp the fact that the whole point of the market is that individuals deciding on their own best interests will organise more effectively that any planning?


Edit: Sorry sasguru, I echoed your thoughts.