chris955

http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...ptember/029409

Pollyana

I am talking to ALL of you who are chasing each other round the forums in a mini wolfpack. Put each other on ignore or take the consequences.

TheArmChairDetective

To be fair, I think you should calm down before you spoil it for one and all.

This was the Original Post
An interesting idea, but is it workable seeing as the P.O Management have taken away of what is historically "The Post Office" as we knew it?

chris955

Makes sense
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/g...mers-want.html

Pit Bull.

Girls Aloud are getting back together yaaaaayyyy

TheArmChairDetective

That's good news for the British miming community !

Pit Bull.

Bud the Wiser

Better news, although the article does dissect the figures somewhat from the headline.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/e...n-is-over.html

Pistolpete2

I'm not giving you credit for that positive post because there are already at least three maybe four others on this thread from earlier in the month dancing around the same positive news for UK 3rd quarter GDP growth.

Go find something else, and make it snappy!

Bud the Wiser

LOl. Well there was a couple of articles in the Daily Mail, but noboby belie.............

Oh what the hell.............

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...World-War.html

TheArmChairDetective

I once read in the Daily Mail that there had been a world war between some people called the Allies and some other people called the Axis Partners, but hell it was in the Mail so it couldn't be true!

Pistolpete2

Will just about let that one through even though pitbull, as I recall, already focused on the 500,000 jobs last week.

The DM, being the excellent newspaper that it is , focused on the crunch item which is that there is significant under-employment because a very large portion of the employed are working part-time and want full-time employment.

chris955

Well the latest good news for the UK is of course that GDP grew an impressive 1% in the last 3 months. Of course I will add before someone comes along to rain on the parade that there were some one off events that helped this result but what it does is create positivity and hopefully promotes and encourages investment.

Pistolpete2

Only thing that concerns me is that it was my understanding that many of the public sector cuts were delayed as the economy was too weak to withstand them. IF the powers that be think that this indeed indicates some sort of sustainable improvement then it must be tempered with the fact that those cuts will now start to come back on stream.

The medicine has to be taken but it is just a matter of when.

Pound is UP smartly today against the USD while the Euro is DOWN suggesting markets think GDP numbers are positive.

Maybe Debenhams pay as well as Fords in which case it is a wash - SIDI

Pistolpete2

Not good news or bad but this blog was in my view quite entertaining:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...ent-dreamland/

Quote:

The “too far, too fast” argument has run its course. So has the “adrenalin shot” economic strategy; as it was always destined to. The idea that Balls would stand up two years into his term as Chancellor and proudly announce “Our stimulus plan has worked, Britain is now back on the path to recovery, and as a result I am pleased to announce that the cuts to schools, hospitals and the police will now begin in earnest” was always a fantasy.

Today’s growth figures have dragged Labour unceremoniously out of dreamland, and back into the real world. And the Labour leadership should exploit it.

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