Exchange rate
May 11th 2007, 10:41 am
#170
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Re: Exchange rate
You big meanies ! 
(I think ! cos, like, I'm not looking anymore, remember ...?)
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(I think ! cos, like, I'm not looking anymore, remember ...?)
(moth to a flame, moth to a flame, moth to a flame, moth to a flame
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May 11th 2007, 12:11 pm
#171
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Re: Exchange rate
Housing markets is increased in multiples in most western countries in the last 10 years. Spain, US, Canada, France, Germany, the list goes on and on. A fact of life. BOE kept pace with most major central banks, cutting after the terror attacks of 9/11, to keep the US economy out of recession. In the rate hiking cycle they are ahead of Europe in the curve there. They have mantained a strong currency.
Now let's look at the many disasters that the labour government have presided over, immigration, crime, schoooling, throwing buckets of money at the NHS with no improvement, Petrol prices doubling, the Iraq war, need i go on. Do you honestly think a government controlled BOE could have done a better job? I would bet my life savings that things would be sooooo much worse if that was the case.
Chris
Now let's look at the many disasters that the labour government have presided over, immigration, crime, schoooling, throwing buckets of money at the NHS with no improvement, Petrol prices doubling, the Iraq war, need i go on. Do you honestly think a government controlled BOE could have done a better job? I would bet my life savings that things would be sooooo much worse if that was the case.
Chris
May 11th 2007, 1:10 pm
#173
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Re: Exchange rate
May 11th 2007, 1:31 pm
#174
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Re: Exchange rate
Right, education i have 2 children of school age, my daughters local school as class sizes of 30-32 children. Therefore in order to get her a decent education i pay to send her to private school.
re the NHS, my grandfather just waited a yr to have a hip replacement op. My daughter went into hospital a 2 yrs ago to have grimits fitted, the prick doctor didn't fit the gromits but instead took her tonsils out.
My best friend(was my best man) and his wife work for the NHS, he is actually an electrician at the local hospital. He told me that the guys he work with deliberate scupper the boiler every couple of weeks so that it goes off during the night. They get called out to fix it, getting paid double time, call out money and then get a day in lieu. His wife told me that the new hospital they just built down the road at Romford, a lot of the equipment is leased from private companies, which means all the maintainance staff they have can't actually repair stuff, they have to fill in paperwork send it off and wait for the company it is leased from to send someone to fix it.
For your info, i am a very well educated person i have more than enough opinions of my own and the newspaper i read the most is the FT. Now keep your useless ill informed judgements to yourself.
May 11th 2007, 1:35 pm
#175
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Re: Exchange rate
As for Iraq i am a soldiers son, my father was on the Sir Galahad when it got hit in the Falklands war and was also in the first Gulf War. I am very pro military, i agreed with the invasion of Iraq, but Blair lied. We should have gone in because he was a dictator and the mass graves with over 500,000 bodies in were more than enough justification in my opinion. All that made up shit about WMD.
Also, if he is going to send our troops into combat, he should make sure they are adequately equiped for it. And believe me having grown up in Germany as a squaddies son, going to a military school, were half my classmates then joined up, i have plenty of evidence to back it up.
Also, if he is going to send our troops into combat, he should make sure they are adequately equiped for it. And believe me having grown up in Germany as a squaddies son, going to a military school, were half my classmates then joined up, i have plenty of evidence to back it up.
May 11th 2007, 1:40 pm
#176
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Re: Exchange rate
Children, CHILDREN! 
Can't we all just play nice with the others on here?
Politics should not be aired on BE IMHO!
It just upsets people!
Kenny
Can't we all just play nice with the others on here?
Politics should not be aired on BE IMHO!
It just upsets people!
Kenny
May 11th 2007, 1:49 pm
#178
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Re: Exchange rate
Also, if he is going to send our troops into combat, he should make sure they are adequately equiped for it. And believe me having grown up in Germany as a squaddies son, going to a military school, were half my classmates then joined up, i have plenty of evidence to back it up.
Anyway, enough of this tribalism, can we go back to my post on Canadian oil and how long it's going to last? Much more interesting.
<<So what's the timeline, given the information available, for Canadian oil supplies to dwindle to a trickle and set off economic calamity? There was an article in the Enomomist a while ago (maybe years, I can't remember) that cited 2012 to be the year of impending doom for oil exporting countries.>>
I'm just worried for the poor people in Alberta.
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May 11th 2007, 2:05 pm
#180
Joined: Apr 2005
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Re: Exchange rate
Ahh, ignore him for the moment, he's having a bad day.
Anyway, enough of this tribalism, can we go back to my post on Canadian oil and how long it's going to last? Much more interesting.
<<So what's the timeline, given the information available, for Canadian oil supplies to dwindle to a trickle and set off economic calamity? There was an article in the Enomomist a while ago (maybe years, I can't remember) that cited 2012 to be the year of impending doom for oil exporting countries.>>
I'm just worried for the poor people in Alberta.
Anyway, enough of this tribalism, can we go back to my post on Canadian oil and how long it's going to last? Much more interesting.
<<So what's the timeline, given the information available, for Canadian oil supplies to dwindle to a trickle and set off economic calamity? There was an article in the Enomomist a while ago (maybe years, I can't remember) that cited 2012 to be the year of impending doom for oil exporting countries.>>
I'm just worried for the poor people in Alberta.
In the case of the latter, Alberta's reserves are reckoned to be sufficient to supply all world demand for oil for over a century.