Reply to: Who's going to be Chancellor next week?

[hyperD]

Spot the quivering lip....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7589737.stm

[ratewhore]

Certainly heading that way:

linky

[daviejones]

Well, it looks like it really is tulip!!!

[KathyWoolfe]

I keep getting flashbacks to Blackadder 4 where the aide to General Melchet was a Captain Darling - and was as effective in getting believed by Blackadder.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Talking about new chancellors, I heard things are likely to come to head next week, with a full-blown sterling crisis.

Hmmm we had to wait for the chancellor to be fired after the last Sterling crisis - wonder if this one will quit if it happens?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Love it that he thinks the major problem is that "Labour hasn't got it's message across"

Yes - John Major and his pals used to say that a lot - sadly it seems that after this long in power, no party can accept that voters are sick of them

[ace00]

Not Darling, he's getting his excuses in early ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7589291.stm

Reminds me of one of my favourite quotes (by a civil servant).

"We're all focked. I'm focked. You're focked. The whole department is focked. It's the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely focked."

Reminds me of several contracts I've taken to "turn around a failing project", which translates as "paper over the cracks for this IT department in meltdown". This gov is in meltdown. Sterling crisis would be the critical mass point.

[HairyArsedBloke]

One wag I knew discribed "q. v." as a latin version of hyperlink

[bogeyman]

Ooooooooo... a "q. v.".

We don't get many of them...

Not in the Valleys, no.

More "look over by there..."

[bogeyman]

Talking about new chancellors, I heard things are likely to come to head next week, with a full-blown sterling crisis.

It's just like the good old days.

Where's the Kalagon and the Healeybun? *

*q.v. Steve Bell - 'Maggies Farm'

[Cyberman]

I can see the headlines now........ 'Another BALLS-UP by the Chancellor !!'. Perhaps he should change his name because at the moment it is just too perfect and sums up the current lot in every aspect.

[OwlHoot]

Talking about new chancellors, I heard things are likely to come to head next week, with a full-blown sterling crisis.

[bogeyman]

Where's the Ed 'Blinky' Balls option?

He's a shoo-in, surely.

[Cyberman]

Gordon Brown has always been the Chancellor and always will be while he PM. Darling is his puppet. Unfortunately Brown never was much good at the job, but excellent at spin, and now the chickens are truly coming home.

[TimberWolf]

Ofcourse, none of it is anything to do with any government policies or actions.........

I was wondering about this myself yesterday. If we'd had a conservative government in power since 1997, would we have had a boom, and impending bust cycle? My recollection of school economics lessons suggest yes.