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Originally posted by zeitghostYes.
I trust you are looking forward to 33% basic rate tax again...
You never know, maybe they'll bring back Selective Employment Tax as well...
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostRichard I said he'd be happy to sell London if anyone would have it.
I think before long the NHS will be up for sale too, if some Yank investors can afford it and want it. And a good thing too - It's a millstone round our necks, and high time it was privatized.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View Posthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8160614.stm
Total outstanding government debt in the UK has risen to a record £799bn, or 56.6% of UK GDP - the highest since records began in 1974.
Didn't we have a Labour government then as well?
Is there a pattern emerging?
Meanwhile, a National Audit Office (NAO) report said that tax receipts fell by 10% in the past year - the biggest fall since 1923.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostRichard I said he'd be happy to sell London if anyone would have it.
Londres?
C'est à vendre
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Originally posted by Cyberman View PostI've said all along that we are losing a billion pounds every two days. This just underlines further that dire situation and the need for HMG to stop wasting money. The sooner that they start making savings, the less we will have to pay later, but they just seem too thick to understand this simple truth.
That's *all* he cares about, postponing the day of reckoning until after the election.
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Originally posted by thunderlizard View PostPaying Richard the Lionheart's ransom of 150,000 marks resulted in a national debt of 300% GDP. That was in the 1190s so a bit before my time.
I think before long the NHS will be up for sale too, if some Yank investors can afford it and want it. And a good thing too - It's a millstone round our necks, and high time it was privatized.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View Posthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8160614.stm
Total outstanding government debt in the UK has risen to a record £799bn, or 56.6% of UK GDP - the highest since records began in 1974.
Didn't we have a Labour government then as well?
Is there a pattern emerging?
In those days we had massive problems with miners and electrician strikes, and also were held to ransom by the oil states. Nowadays we have no such excuse. We just have a crap government that does not understand that you should not spend more than you have to spend.
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Originally posted by Cyberman View PostI've said all along that we are losing a billion pounds every two days. This just underlines further that dire situation and the need for HMG to stop wasting money. The sooner that they start making savings, the less we will have to pay later, but they just seem to thick to understand this simple truth.
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Originally posted by Cyberman View PostI've said all along that we are losing a billion pounds every two days. This just underlines further that dire situation and the need for HMG to stop wasting money. The sooner that they start making savings, the less we will have to pay later, but they just seem to thick to understand this simple truth.
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I've said all along that we are losing a billion pounds every two days. This just underlines further that dire situation and the need for HMG to stop wasting money. The sooner that they start making savings, the less we will have to pay later, but they just seem too thick to understand this simple truth.Last edited by Cyberman; 21 July 2009, 11:10.
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Paying Richard the Lionheart's ransom of 150,000 marks resulted in a national debt of 300% GDP. That was in the 1190s so a bit before my time.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostSeriously, are there no government accounts records going back further than 1974?
This reminds me of a Simpsons quote:
Homer: Lisa, there's no record of there ever being a hurricaine in Springfield.
Lisa: Yes but the records only go back to 1974 when the records office was mysteriously blown away.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostTotal outstanding government debt in the UK has risen to a record £799bn, or 56.6% of UK GDP - the highest since records began in 1974.
This reminds me of a Simpsons quote:
Homer: Lisa, there's no record of there ever being a hurricaine in Springfield.
Lisa: Yes but the records only go back to 1974 when the records office was mysteriously blown away.
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