Why the UK is doomed - sell your sterling

[centurian]

http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_...is-doomed.html

1. North sea oil drying up
2. City money drying up

I would add:

3. Can't even make aero-engines properly any more

What do we sell?

Quote "I've sold mine"...

Which means the only way for his 'short' to be successful is for everyone else to follow suit.

Sounds a lot like "buy-to-let ers" telling everyone else that they absolutely cannot afford to lose out and simply must buy into property because it will keep going up forever.


He might be right, but the fact that he has a vested interest in the result clearly taints what he is saying...

[PM-Junkie]

We are still a world leader in automotive and architectural design.

And, er...

we're also very good at inventing sports, exporting them, and then getting dicked by everyone...
And of course weapons....

[AlfredJPruffock]

We've got Posh and Becks - oh wait theyre moved havent they - erm Kate Moss then.

[Svalbaard]

We are still a world leader in automotive and architectural design.

And, er...

[foritisme]

Damn, now we've got to work for a living like my dad did.

What happened to those Welsh Pot Noodle mines?

[Doggy Styles]

1. North sea oil drying up
2. City money drying up

Damn, now we've got to work for a living like my dad did.

What happened to those Welsh gold mines?

[Mich the Tester]

What do we sell?

Lemon curd
Datsuns
Pornography

[DimPrawn]

I thought all this doom was just right-wing propaganda written in right-wing papers?

[BrilloPad]

Old man dies !
The note he left was signed 'Old Father Thames'
- it seems he's drowned;

Selling England by the Pound.

Citizens of Hope & Glory,
Time goes by - it's the 'time of your life'.
Easy now, sit you down.

Chewing through your Wimpey dreams,
they eat without a sound;
digesting England by the Pound.

Young man says 'you are what you eat' - eat well.
Old man says 'you are what you wear' - wear well.


You know what you are, you don't give a damn;
bursting your belt that is your homemade sham.

That was from 1974/1975? There is always a scare story about.

The city will bounce back.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Old man dies !
The note he left was signed 'Old Father Thames'
- it seems he's drowned;

Selling England by the Pound.

Citizens of Hope & Glory,
Time goes by - it's the 'time of your life'.
Easy now, sit you down.

Chewing through your Wimpey dreams,
they eat without a sound;
digesting England by the Pound.

Young man says 'you are what you eat' - eat well.
Old man says 'you are what you wear' - wear well.


You know what you are, you don't give a damn;
bursting your belt that is your homemade sham.

[zara_backdog]

Can't even make aero-engines properly any more

What do we sell?

RR seem to be doing OK ( apart from the Trent on the 777)

Goodrich and Dunlop also OK and provide Systems to other aero-engines.

[sasguru]

http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_...is-doomed.html

1. North sea oil drying up
2. City money drying up

I would add:

3. Can't even make aero-engines properly any more

What do we sell?