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scooterscot replied

13 March 2009, 15:53
Originally posted by _V_ View Post

....Norway has £240bn of hard cash it can't wait to spend as surplus from "oil and gas" when the UK is £5trn in debt and it too once had oil, gas and coal reserves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...-property.html

Could it be our government wasted the wealth of a nation and theirs invested it?

Don't even get me started.
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thelace replied

13 March 2009, 14:56
Dog's don't take much feeding, we all know they'll eat their own tulip....
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Mich the Tester replied

13 March 2009, 14:43
Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

Plus, there are only 23 Norwegians...

You've forgotten their dogs. They have sled dogs; whole teams of them.
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NotAllThere replied

13 March 2009, 14:39
Plus, there are only 23 Norwegians, and the UK has 300,000,000 inhabitants.
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Rantor replied

13 March 2009, 13:52
Originally posted by _V_ View Post

....Norway has £240bn of hard cash it can't wait to spend as surplus from "oil and gas" when the UK is £5trn in debt and it too once had oil, gas and coal reserves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...-property.html

Could it be our government wasted the wealth of a nation and theirs invested it?

Mass deindustrialisation ---> Unemployment Benefits + Long Term Sickness Benfits

Class warfare don't come cheap.
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Mich the Tester replied

13 March 2009, 13:46
The Norges Bank is not directly run by the government, but by the King, the bank’s governors and a council of ministers. If the government want to spend loads of the cash on nonsense policies, the King and the governors can tell them where to shove their pipe dreams.
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DaveB replied

13 March 2009, 13:35
Originally posted by _V_ View Post

....Norway has £240bn of hard cash it can't wait to spend as surplus from "oil and gas" when the UK is £5trn in debt and it too once had oil, gas and coal reserves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...-property.html

Could it be our government wasted the wealth of a nation and theirs invested it?

To paraphrase Lord Blackadder :

"Found it, pinched it, spent it."
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_V_ started a topic How come....

13 March 2009, 13:26
How come....

....Norway has £240bn of hard cash it can't wait to spend as surplus from "oil and gas" when the UK is £5trn in debt and it too once had oil, gas and coal reserves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...-property.html

Could it be our government wasted the wealth of a nation and theirs invested it?
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