Whats needed is for lenders to pass the savings on to borrowers, borrowing at .5% and lending at 5 - 6 % +
"Britain needs to get its economy growing" says BBC news (as of about a minute ago)
Where's this "stating the obvious" department? I need a job
Bank of England should reduce interest rates, how much lower than 0.5% can they go.....
Whats needed is for lenders to pass the savings on to borrowers, borrowing at .5% and lending at 5 - 6 % +
What's needed is a few measures to get a bit more money in the pockets of the average person. For example if my petrol, gas and electricity bills went down by 10% that's a fair chunk of money that can go to other businesses who'll employ more people.
That's common sense though.......! I suspect most people 'in charge' have no concept that your average person has no extra cash to
spend on anything at the moment and are puzzled why, when they increase tax on everything, they get little extra revenue - I'll give them a
hint.......it's because we have to buy less of everything every time you do it because we have had to take pay cuts/haven't had a pay rise
or bonus in years/have been made unemployed.....unlike yourselves.....
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Originally posted by r1_pete
Bank of England should reduce interest rates, how much lower than 0.5% can they go.....
Whats needed is for lenders to pass the savings on to borrowers, borrowing at .5% and lending at 5 - 6 % +
Whats needed is to get Britain working reduce the expenditure from the pot and pass the savings back . Too many lazy bleeders scrouning from the benefits system and denying people in real need of help. Make employers responsible for a maximum workforce quota of None british to stop migrant workers taking the opportunities that some of our layabouts refuse to take. This isn't directed at those who really want to work or are unable too do so they should be given all the suppoirt and backing to make it happen
Just jump ship!
Im weathering the storm over here in Western Australia, Will return to the uk in 5-10 years when (if) it gets its act together!
Where abouts are you Jason?
Cheers
R
The financial state may be dire, but the work situation has improved, at least in my area of work.
At the end of 2008, there was next to no work. My contract ended and I couldn't find anything. I had one interview in six months and it took me
another six months to get sorted properly.
Two week's ago my contract ended again (1 week's notice). During that week, I got 3 interviews lined up for the following week and during
the following week turned down offers of three more.
I finished work on the Friday and had an offer of a position on the Monday.
SteveW
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Originally posted by Jasongray5
Just jump ship!
Im weathering the storm over here in Western Australia, Will return to the uk in 5-10 years when (if) it gets its act together!
make cannabis legal and tax it, problem solved, and people would go to amsterdam less!
Pete
yeah, then nothing would get done and we'd be royally screwed
If everyone was stoned the government would be rich! Think of how many students there are out there! I think it is considered like alcohol, you don't have a beer in the morning do you? You have it after a hard days work!
You've triggered the irritation in me now 
Most of the students I know (and that's a fair few having been at uni nearly a decade, then
working there!) have never touched it, though one or two do of course, because generally it didn't work so well with gaining a good, complex and
worthy engineering qualification. All the friends I know who have used more than a couple of times it became seriously antisocial people to be around
and were eventually dropped from the group and have only come back to normal when they left that side of their life behind, not through being forced
out but by changing personality massively. All the folk who I knew at uni who used it regularly now don't work in their qualifications/skillset,
most of them were arts students who had the time to be wasted in a corner of a coffee shop and are suitably similarly employed now.
I'd venture to say that if it were legalised and taxed most people still wouldn't touch it (no-one likes smoking anyway these days, everyone
knows it makes you stink and kills you) and the NHS would pick up a greater bill for mental health issues from the minority that would smoke
themselves silly on it. Everyone I ever knew that took the "it's only one or two at a weekend" lost that idea somewhere along the line
and are only starting to recover normality around the age of 30.
It's about time society took the view that finding ways to cope with our oh so difficult 1st world life should not include medication and
self-numbing with drugs (including alcohol), the place would be notably better and I dare say people would be happier on the whole.
rant over
[Edited on 30/6/12 by coyoteboy]
There are people who binge on alcohol. It starts as 'the odd one or two pints at the weekend' as well. Maybe, because it is illegal, you do
it in your house, and so are not open to people saying you've had too much and you keep going. I don't like it really, I would rather stay
moderately in control of my body :p I have to say It has made me drink less too!
Considering people will happily pay £20 for a gram, which turns out to be mostly water, even if it was less the government would still be rolling in
it! We pay £3 for a pint of strongbow in St Albans for god sake!
That's criminal for strongbow!
Farming 160k's south east of perth, a little place called Quindanning!
Hows Freo?
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Originally posted by RichardK
Where abouts are you Jason?
Cheers
R
Found this today, and it's very relevant to this discussion:
Matthew Parris explains why we’re in the state we’re in…
“We have been living beyond our means. We have been paying ourselves more than our efforts were earning. We sought political leaders who would assure
us that the good times would never end and that the centuries of boom and bust were over; and we voted for those who offered that assurance. We sought
credit for which we had no security and we gave our business to the banks that advertised it. We wanted higher exam grades for our children and were
rewarded with politicians prepared to supply them by lowering exam standards. We wanted free and better health care and demanded chancellors who paid
for it without putting up our taxes. We wanted salacious stories in our newspapers and bought the papers that broke the rules to provide them. And now
we whimper and snarl at MPs, bankers and journalists. Fair enough, my friends, but, you know, we really are all in this together.”
"We" in that part doesn't include everyone though.
I suspect that he meant "We" as in "This country". I don't think he's far wrong.
Individually we may have been living within our means, but as a country...
Coyoteboy, in all the comments you've made on here, I could not agree more. I can't say those things for fear of total ostrasisation (sp?). I am a weirdo for not drinking/doping etc. My garage, my wife, my dog, are all I need. Well, that and the 7, but that's just an addiction and I don't really WANT it, I just need it. And no, I can't quit anytime, apparently.
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Originally posted by Jasongray5
Farming 160k's south east of perth, a little place called Quindanning!
Hows Freo?
quote:
Originally posted by RichardK
Where abouts are you Jason?
Cheers
R