The gold is sold, the silver's next...

[Zippy]

Ooh, yes.

And those boys, Bill & Ben, would earn a fortune as gigolos.

You take the lady, I'll have her horse.

[Cyberman]

How about selling Northern Rock, which they stole from its shareholders.

[RichardCranium]

Why not sell the Royal Family?

I doubt they'd raise much money.

Would you want one?

Ooh, yes.

And those boys, Bill & Ben, would earn a fortune as gigolos.

[PRC1964]

Why not sell the Royal Family?

I doubt they'd raise much money.

Would you want one?

[RichardCranium]

Next thing you know they'll be selling off HMR&C to some bunch of sharks who will take a cut of all revenue raised

I thought we had? To EDS?

[PM-Junkie]

Couldn't we just sell off the government.

Sadly, in order to sell something you need a buyer - and therein lies the problem....

[BrilloPad]

Why not sell the Royal Family?

[gingerjedi]

Ordnance Survey
Land Registry
Hydrographic Office


The DVA and Met Office do too much "important" work imo....

I could stick my wet finger in the air and come up with a more accurate guess... sorry prediction than the met office.

[foritisme]

Couldn't we just sell off the government.

[OwlHoot]

Ordnance Survey
Land Registry
Hydrographic Office

The DVA and Met Office do too much "important" work imo....

I thought the Ordnance Survey had already been privatised, many years ago.

Next thing you know they'll be selling off HMR&C to some bunch of sharks who will take a cut of all revenue raised (the way revenue collection was farmed out to "publicans" in Biblical times).

[moony1234]

Ordnance Survey
Land Registry
Hydrographic Office


The DVA and Met Office do too much "important" work imo....

[expat]

Selling the family's jewels.


In order of stupidity, which should Fatso Gordo, the one-eyed Scottish Idiot, sell off first to some poxy overseas company?

- Royal Mint
- Land Registry
- Defence Vetting Agency

Looks like Labour's Thatcherist conversion is complete. Damn. I'll have to vote Lib Dem.

[Zippy]

Selling the family's jewels.


In order of stupidity, which should Fatso Gordo, the one-eyed Scottish Idiot, sell off first to some poxy overseas company?

- Royal Mint
- Land Registry
- Defence Vetting Agency

DVA
Royal Mint
Land Registry

[RichardCranium]

Selling the family's jewels.

Selling off the silver to pay for the banks

Among the public bodies the government now considers ripe for possible privatisation are the Royal Mint, the Land Registry, the Met Office, Ordnance Survey, the Defence Vetting Agency (which security vets potential MoD staff) and the UK Hydrographic Office.

These are the first stage of a massive sell off of publicly owned assets whose sole rationale is to claw back money lost to bailing out failing banks.

In order of stupidity, which should Fatso Gordo, the one-eyed Scottish Idiot, sell off first to some poxy overseas company?

- Royal Mint
- Land Registry
- Defence Vetting Agency