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Pexbo

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I wish it would hurry up then
 

Maticmaker

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If by 'relatively new', you mean a 35 year old eyesore,
Yes, my friend told me the locals use to call it the 'dustbin', (something to do with its shape?) He reckons there is some improvement with the new complex, but still thinks an awful lot of money was wasted.
It's the sort of historical anomaly Labour could do with avoiding.
 

Frosty

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Yes, my friend told me the locals use to call it the 'dustbin', (something to do with its shape?) He reckons there is some improvement with the new complex, but still thinks an awful lot of money was wasted.
It's the sort of historical anomaly Labour could do with avoiding.
We will be lucky if there's enough money to keep the lights on after the next election the rate we are going.
 

Maticmaker

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We will be lucky if there's enough money to keep the lights on after the next election the rate we are going.
True, the 'carpetbaggers' will leave us penniless, mind you Brown's lot did something similar with the 'moneys all gone note'.
With a two-year (potential) time wait until the next GE, Lis Truss and Co. could be in the process of writing the longest political suicide note in history, couldn't help laughing at Starmer's comment about Labour now being the party of economic competence... bet they were hiding under the table in No.10 :)
 

Mr Pigeon

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Who's up for another christmas GE then?

They've already used all their subs.
Why would we have another election? It's not like we've replaced the PM without a fully democratic process that involves the electorate, nor torn up all of their manifesto pledges. What matters right now is letting this competent Government fix the problems caused by this incompetent Government.
 

Berbasbullet

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Why would we have another election? It's not like we've replaced the PM without a fully democratic process that involves the electorate, nor torn up all of their manifesto pledges. What matters right now is letting this competent Government fix the problems caused by this incompetent Government.
It is only fair that the entire country gets pulled into the Tory psychodrama as much as possible.
 

Jippy

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The BoE has just had to send a revised version of the weekly calendar it sends out pmsl. That agenda, sent at the weekend didn't age well.

THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER

Dave Ramsden: Opening remarks and panellist at the Joint conference with the Bank of Lithuania and Bank for International Settlements ‘Central banks as a pool of real-time data: the “whys” and the “hows”’ (12:30 hrs BST), Lithuania. Text to be released

(to watch please click here)

Andrew Hauser: Speech at the Market News International Connect event ‘Running down the hill: managing QE unwind’ (13:00). Text to be released

(open to media, Q&A on the record, click here to register)

 

Sir Matt

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Since she promised to review the Bank of England’s independence, maybe she can move that up to really crater the British economy.
 

Buster15

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I suddenly like the BoE. I still fecking hate the Tories, gambling with money that isn't theirs.
Irony of ironies. The non budget that was aimed at rewarding the bankers in order to ensure that the best bankers came to work in the UK is causing such a run on the £ Stirling that the BoE is forced to intervene to stop Financial institutions and Pensions companies from going to the wall....