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    #21
    As long as we keep importing people like there is no tomorrow we will be fine

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      #22
      Originally posted by _V_ View Post
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ht/8062417.stm

      Speaking to Newsnight he said 100,000 people will lose their job each month "at least until the end of the year".

      He warned we face a "lost generation" of young people if the government fails to invest in the future.
      The state of the UK jobmarket doesn't in itself actually have much of an impact on the Dow. The main reason for the drop was the latest release of jobless figures that were pretty grim.

      Of course, the fact that Cheyney opened his trap again may have something to do with it - I wonder which bit of "your team lost the election" he doesn't understand?
      Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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        #23
        Originally posted by sasguru View Post
        Don't be lulled into a false sense of security. This is just the eye of the storm.
        What is coming is the realisation by external countries that the Emperor has no clothes - Britain is bust.
        Why do you think that?

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          #24
          Originally posted by sasguru View Post
          Shift your GBP into other currencies - as I am doing.
          What kind of wonder currency are you shifting into

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            #25
            Canadian dollars & gold.

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              #26
              How does one go about converting GBP into a proper stable currency?

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                #27
                S&P have just downgraded UK debt
                "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


                Thomas Jefferson

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                  #28
                  The pound is doing well - how do you know it's going to collapse
                  Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.

                  I preferred version 1!

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
                    S&P have just downgraded UK debt
                    stated the obvious

                    What was there in the S&P statement that was news??? All they were doing was stating what everyone knows anyway.
                    Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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