http://www.ukresults.net/08sep.html#penningtonOriginally Posted by Roadrunner
If you haven't sorted it by weekend, you could always run this! The Prize Money should keep you going a few days.
That's as long as someone will sub you the entry fee
http://www.ukresults.net/08sep.html#pennington
If you haven't sorted it by weekend, you could always run this! The Prize Money should keep you going a few days.
That's as long as someone will sub you the entry fee
Exactly! Good stuff Witton.exactly - It Didn't Have To Happen.
I Strongly Believe In The Free Market, But I Think That Some Of These People In Government, Bank Of England, Fsa, The City Etc Have Behaved Extremely Irresponsibly With Our Money - Whether Our Money Is Our Savings Or Our Taxes.
I Mean, Spread Betting By Financial Insitutions - Madness.
The Calibre Generally Of People At The Top In These Institutions Has Gone Down Immensely In The Last 20 Years Since Maggie Went. The Old Style Politicians, Love Them Or Loath Them - At Least You New What They Stood For.
Most Of Them Now Are Not Fit To Run A Whelk Stall.
How Can You Trust Govt That Has A Minister Like Mandy That Cons Us, Resigns, Comes Back All Forgiven, Cons Us, Resigns, Then Ends Up On Double The Salary In Charge Effectively Of All The Eu Trade.
I Think There Is More Pain To Come Yet - And Looking At The Polls Now - We Have To Hope That Cameron Has More About Him Than We Have Seen So Far.
Labour Are Stuffed - Perhaps Permanantly Now - And For Those That Think It Is Not Their Fault - They Sold The Gold At A Knock Down Price - Robbed The Best Funded Private Pension Funds In The World - Spent The Money On New Deal Which Would Have Been Cheaper Giving All The New Dealers £20k In The Hand!
Taxed Us To The Hilt And Frittered It All Away.
Need I Go On?
They Should Certainly Be In A Better Position To Deal With This Than They Are - And Blair Should Really Cop For A Lot Of This As It Was Created Under His Leadership.
We're Going To Hell In A Handcart
Just want to mention something on the FSA. I am against regulations, all regulations and here's why:Exactly - it didn't have to happen.
I strongly believe in the free market, but I think that some of these people in Government, Bank of England, FSA, The City etc have behaved extremely irresponsibly with our money - whether our money is our savings or our taxes.
I mean, spread betting by financial insitutions - madness.
The calibre generally of people at the top in these institutions has gone down immensely in the last 20 years since Maggie went. The old style politicians, love them or loath them - at least you new what they stood for.
Most of them now are not fit to run a Whelk Stall.
How can you trust Govt that has a minister like Mandy that cons us, resigns, comes back all forgiven, cons us, resigns, then ends up on double the salary in charge effectively of all the EU trade.
I think there is more pain to come yet - and looking at the polls now - we have to hope that Cameron has more about him than we have seen so far.
Labour are stuffed - perhaps permanantly now - and for those that think it is not their fault - they sold the gold at a knock down price - robbed the best funded private pension funds in the world - spent the money on New Deal which would have been cheaper giving all the New Dealers £20K in the hand!
Taxed us to the hilt and frittered it all away.
Need I go on?
They should certainly be in a better position to deal with this than they are - and Blair should really cop for a lot of this as it was created under his leadership.
We're going to Hell in a handcart
About a week ago a top financier was on Hard Talk( a BBC news program on Sky). He said the FSA couldn't regulate the banking sector, because they couldn't understand it. It was too complex.
They weren't the only ones. The bloke on the show didn't understand it either. In fact he said hardly anyone understood what was going on. Loans and investments with big names and pages and pages of information.
What was understood was that it couldn't last. There was too much money going out to too many people.
So we were paying taxes to regulate the banking sector and it couldn't be regulated. So more waste and also the illusion we were being protected.
With the pound tied to gold the markets wouldn't need regulation
I suspect I'll not be the only forumite who finds your thinking on China naive to the point of stupidity and hope I'm not the only one who thinks you using the phrase, 'primitive cavemen', sickening!
Give me a break Derby. Tell us why it's naive?
The way it's going over here, we'll be getting Chinese investors coming over here to invest in manufacturing plants
- taking advantage of the cheap labour force!
And I'm not joking - a shoe factory in Fuzhou recently told me that they were having to pay some of the sewing machinists wages that would be close to the UK minimum wage over here, such is the shortage of skilled workers in the Chinese industrial areas.
The China comment may be naive, but it could be taken two ways.
1. Of course China is relavant to the current economic problems. The huge growth there in a country with 25% of the worls's population has put so much pressure on the world's resources. The pressure on Oil, Steel, Coal etc - even items such as rubber is incredible and these commodities have seen huge increases in price over the last 3 - 5 years.
Remember $10 a barrel?
2. IT isn't relevant. CHina has gorn as it was the natural factory of the world - if it hadn't have been - somewhere else would have been - such as Africa etc.
In fact China will soon start to lose as it is becoming difficult to source from in som instances.
DT - I just think that sometimes we shouldn't get too sickened by such terms.
I have young white youths in my neck of the woods I often refer to as Pond Life, Neanderthals etc - basically just terms to describe the local useless nob-heads that blight our society.
I think it is fair to say that this and other countruies have been assisting quite powerful Pond-Life in other countries around the world in the name of "Aid"
but in fact have been making the life of the poor sods on the ground a misery, rather than helping.
Much of the government "Aid" dished out is poorly targetted at thugs and villains, who seem to have a very nice life thank you.
Mugabe certainly has some dapper suits!
"primitive cavemen" Christopher? You're in danger of losing respect. If you start talking like that you'll find yourself surrounded by shouting rednecks slapping you on the back and respectable people won't be fighting through them to get near you.
And by the way, with regard to "primitive", what is gold? Just stuff. Only worth what people agree it's worth. No intrinsic value at all. More like fantasy capital. It can just as easily turn into a floating anchor if people stop believing it's heavy.
China is creating an interesting situation at present. For several years we've seen them selling commodity goods including clothes and household goods at below actual global cost because of low labour costs but also importantly, their government's subsidies. As you point out WP this is changing. I travel the world selling chemicals and manufacturing is becoming more and more itinerant. The time it stays in one place is getting shorter too as employees expectation rise and rise more quickly
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