5000 bankers given the boot

[Bob Dalek]

Yup, this what happen after the crash in '87. Loads of people were dancing in the streets at the thought of all those City types getting stuffed. Not too long afterwards the whole economy slid down the pan and unemployment shot up.

For 2 minutes.

[ratewhore]

how many IT contractors and consultants were employed at Lehman UK ?

You haven't been contracting very long have you?

[SandyDown]

For 2 minutes.

For 5 years actually - only started to recover around 1995

[wobbegong]

Indeed. It's the foulest turd of a town in all creation, and I am comparing it to Salford, too.

Agree 100%. Never been to Salford, but HW really, really needs bulldozing. It's a $hite hole of the very foulest kind (I know, I lived there).

[Moscow Mule]

Totty in Digress?

What? You mean they can't stick to the point?

http://www.digress-city.co.uk/location/

[swamp]

The City of London pays the rent for UK Limited.

This country is like a big shared house of skint students where a posh chap downstairs in the nice room gets his parents to pay the landlord all the money each month. Now he's buggered off and the others are pleased because he was an obnoxious chap (which to be fair he was), but it hasn't dawned on them they're all actually fscked come the end of the month.

[Cyberman]

The City of London pays the rent for UK Limited.

This country is like a big shared house of skint students where a posh chap downstairs in the nice room gets his parents to pay the landlord all the money each month. Now he's buggered off and the others are pleased because he was an obnoxious chap (which to be fair he was), but it hasn't dawned on them they're all actually fscked come the end of the month.

So true !!!

[bogeyman]

http://www.digress-city.co.uk/location/

Yes. Thank you mister literal.

[Moscow Mule]

Yes. Thank you mister literal.

You are welcome. How is tractor production coming along?

[bogeyman]

You are welcome. How is tractor production coming along?

Tractor production is down. Sell!!