ReallyReallyGoodMeat

We're saved! Well done Osborne!

David Lock

Can't be much fun in Spain - 26% unemployed (50% for kids)

dl

Tidgy

were all saved, all go out blow the moneny in yoru wallet were rollign in it!

lol, the media do like to hype it up dont they, the financial situation has and is still ****ed from 3 years ago.

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

No triple dip this week but what about next week

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

What about looking at the picture regionally too?

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

LOL the BBC are gutted, they had loads of news time lined up for the triple dip, but now it hasn't happenned they need to fill in a bit. So now they are bangng on about how we have avoided the triple dip. Did you hear the term triple dip? you will alot today because we aren't in one!

Headline news, Britain isn't launching a shutlle to the moon today

JTaylor

Crime down, borrowing down and growth; what a government!

hodgy0_2

thought it might be another yoghurt thread - shame

Dr Hu

PS Lewis is quiet these days.....

Maybe he's still trying to get his new car out of the bankrupt dealers compound

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Matteeboy

No but the term "recession" will pale into insignificance for what's coming up...

Dr Hu

Do you forsee a massive market correction then MatteBoy?

Or an implosion of Europe... with one failure bringing others down like a house of cards?

Or both

Cheery hey!

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Whatever happens, my experience tells me the £ will continue badly against the €

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Where are you getting your information from? Because from where I am sitting the £ is increasing daily against the €.

ScoobyWon't

You'll soon be using the French franc again.

Leslie

Well the Euro is probably doomed anyway.

Les

Matteeboy

We've not been able to afford pensions or most benefits for decades - it's built the deficit higher and higher but no govt will do anything about it. Add the bank bailouts, Euro bail outs and literally NO hope of recovery (what have we got that can help re-build the economy?), things might just get a bit tricky.

He said, cheerfully.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

The £ will do well against the € until the NEXT holiday comes round, then it will bomb just before....again

But hey...it's not being manipulated...

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Still only €1.18, and that's not the tourist rate.

It was €1.16 when I went at the end of March, and that WAS the tourist rate.

thing is, it doesn't seem to matter WHAT happens:

Dollar bombs? Bad for the £.
Dollar rises? Bad for the £.
Oil price rises? Bad for the £.
Oil price falls? Bad for the £.
Interest rates rise? Bad for the £.
Interest rates fall? Bad for the £.
The Euro is in trouble? Bad for the £.
The Euro is doing better? Bad for the £.

Come on...WHAT would be GOOD for the £ ????

hodgy0_2

You yo stop moaning about it, but it ain't gonna happen

Mouser

It's obviously a conspiracy.

zip106

I hear they sell hanging quality rope quite cheap at Poundland (£1 actually)

Matteeboy

You'll know that my rope will be better than your rope ;-)

zip106

Yeah, but my knot will be tighter than yours

boomer

madscoob

iTrader: (3)

the best single thing thing this goverment could do to make things improve, is to pass a law that made every buisness pay each other on 30days, no more small buisness going down the pan, no more large companies shafting small ones over, and making them go bust so they can swallow them up. but that will never happen because most if not all mp's are shareholders in large companies. i everyone paid each other on time small companies would not need huge overdrafts that cripple them

SouthWalesSam

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Probably?

Do I detect a hint of doubt creeping in here? Or is the cast iron, bang on certainty that the Euro’s about to fail (again) starting to wobble?

Well at least we’ve got our own independent currency that we can set the value of and independently set our own (totally pegged to the Euro) interest rates and stimulate our own (Indian, German, Japanese owned) economy and get our growth soaring (+0.3%) and create lots of jobs (21.2% youth unemployment) and…

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Not the best thing they could do, but not far off it. I have a support contract with one of the UK's biggest companies as they swallowed up a company I wrote some software for a few years ago. They are on 90 days payment and last year went to 120 days...... that said they do at least always pay bang on that date, however it's a ridiculous amunt of time to wait. My average payment time is 58 days yet all my invoices state 30 days.

ScoobyWon't

All of jobs I do, I take payment in advance. If asked why, I tell them it's because of late-payers spoiling it for everyone else.

One client has so far ignored the due date, but my accounting software sends them a reminder, which has annoyed them in to paying.