Reply to: Oh Dear ™ Britain is fooked

[Bagpuss]

Interesting to note that there's not a mention of any of this on the BBC news homepage. Not a dickie bird. Practically all the other news sites I looked at today have been leading with this.

Really? Can't see it here...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/

or here

http://itn.co.uk/

or here

http://www.channel4.com/news/



sounds like another anti BBC rant to me

[DimPrawn]

Interesting to note that there's not a mention of any of this on the BBC news homepage. Not a dickie bird. Practically all the other news sites I looked at today have been leading with this.

It's almost as if this state run media outlet has a left wing agenda!

[wurzel]

Interesting to note that there's not a mention of any of this on the BBC news homepage. Not a dickie bird. Practically all the other news sites I looked at today have been leading with this.

[Bagpuss]

But it's on its way down again after the effects of the new years parties wears off.

I hope so, I want to go on holiday.

[Purple Dalek]

Yep, Obama effect here, the pound has risen against the Euro of late

But it's on its way down again after the effects of the new years parties wears off.

[Bagpuss]

Pound below $1.4

Hoping my IBM shares rally as Obamania grips the US...

Yep, Obama effect here, the pound has risen against the Euro of late

[Purple Dalek]

Who remembers Gordon saying this last autumn:

"Thanks to my good management, Britain is uniquely well-placed to ride out the global recession."

His saying that was one actually of the triggers for people to get out of Sterling.

It's not just us who listen to what he says and just knows the opposite is the case.

[Doggy Styles]

Who remembers Gordon saying this last autumn:

"Thanks to my good management, Britain is uniquely well-placed to ride out the global recession."

[Solidec]

Pound below $1.4

Hoping my IBM shares rally as Obamania grips the US...

[Bagpuss]

As long as you've got yer health though eh?

This is true you can't buy one extra second of life. It's is going to be a bad time for those loaded up on debt, and unfortunately some people who weren't idiots will lose their jobs. Although for contractors it's a time of opportunity, as long as you keep in contact that is. Contractors: You've never had it so good!

[ratewhore]

As long as you've got yer health though eh?

[BlasterBates]

not only the EC thinks Britain is fooked, looks like just about everyone else as well

[Mich the Tester]

Well said, that was market forces while it is working, supply and demand, a perfect model of capitalism! Now it's gone wrong (as those with the most rudimentary economics education could see) it's the fault of Gordon Brown and the socialists!

Who is really to blame? The greedy/stupid populace, the banks, the government, in that order.

How about businesses which made quazillions of profits in the boom but put nothing aside as reserves? And businesses which took out or were forced by hedge funds to take out huge loans for mergers and acquisitions, while it’s common knowledge that mergers are very difficult to make successful and often result in huge debts? Surely they behaved just as badly as the proles who borrowed to buy flat screen tellies and BMWs with black windows?

[EternalOptimist]

It's inevitable in life that you get fooked over every now and then, but this is starting to look like a serious barge-poling

[DimPrawn]

Well said, that was market forces while it is working, supply and demand, a perfect model of capitalism! Now it's gone wrong (as those with the most rudimentary economics education could see) it's the fault of Gordon Brown and the socialists!

Who is really to blame? The greedy/stupid populace, the banks, the government, in that order.

I'd say the banks, the government, the greedy/stupid proles, but the main fact is we're all fcuked now.