Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Hi Haystack,

It looks like I gave the game away re my Cannabis factory.

But seriously, my bill increase is sort of correct.
When I rang EDF they stated that the increase was worked out on my yearly estimate by using the last year as a base line.
I managed to persuade them to increase it to £120 and not £144, but they still consider that £120 will put me in arrears.
The tariff deal that has just ended was signed up to 3 years ago, so you can see how prices have increased.
I spent around 1 hour doing the rounds of comparison sites and only found one that had a better deal, but their customer service was shocking, so having to stick with EDF.

I see Georgie Boy has lost his virginity and is feeling Moody about it.



Promises, promises, promises.

Hays, wasn't he a friend of yours?

It was expected that we would have our AAA rating slightly to AA1. There only two major economies that are AAA and they are Germany and Canada. We have done well to have keep it for so long. We have lost it because we have not reduced debt enough. I guess we need deeper cuts and the sooner the better.

Your not balanced again Fred, it was already in trouble under labour-

Britain's AAA rating under review for first time in 30 years.
Britain's economic stability has come under the gravest scrutiny yet again after the Government's debt was placed under official review by the world's leading ratings agency for the first time in more than three decades

5:38PM BST 21 May 2009

In a decision which sent shivers through the currency, gilt and stock markets, Standard & Poor's (S&P) announced that it had put Britain's AAA rating onto "outlook negative". The decision comes only a day after the International Monetary Fund warned that the Treasury needs to cut debt faster than promised in the Budget.


The Cons have not got the debt down fast enough, no different from the labour party in the past.

It is quite cleat that if Labour were in government we would have lost our AAA rating more than a year ago.

But they never centered their whole economic policy around it.

This government is a joke.

And dont get me wrong so wos the last god knows how many years of Labour government who decided to dumb down education and make every spotty dickhead however thick as sh&te they were be able to get at place at uni !

And you reduce debt by growing your economy not by making cuts in a contracting economy Haystack.

Feck me you ever read a book on economics or have you always had your head up the latest Conservative PM/Chacellors ass ?

Take a step back they are both useless/good (Lab/Cons) at some things at
times but you are so one eyed its unbelievalbe.

Rant over !

Hays,

Read your previous postings where you appeared to think, as Osborne did, that the rating was a sacred cow.

Look at the devaluation of the pound over last 6 months, expecting that the economy was going to go into a further down turn possibly a three dip recession.

Don't try and feed the public with rubbish that devaluation is good for exports.

It is initially and if you are producing the raw materials for your exports will give a temporary boost to the economy, but then becomes a drag because the need for more essential imports imports.

Suggest you go back 2 years and read correctly what I wrote.

This present government is more interested in protecting its own at the expense of the country as a whole, without accepting the strength of the country is based on all of its members.

I listen with interests to the next set of false promises.

That chart is good. It's what the UK needs and demonstrates that the government's economic policies are working.

not sure that is a sequitur hils, though i have never understood why the euro remains so strong

Because the government are trying to weaken sterling to stimulate exports to boost output and growth, so that they can use inflation as a stealth tax to devalue the level of public debt vs GDP. Easy innit?

a bit tenuous i think ..... i'm never convinced that gov'ts have much control over ROE, or at least not over much of a period ..... the economy will recover as and when public sentiment becomes more positive - i.e. the public will start spending again ..... in that respect, the gloom-mongers do a disservice to all, but of course good news is not what sells

Moody's said that austerity must continue. They are happy with the policies. You must rember that the Eurozone is contracting at the moment which has a knock on effect on our economy.

One of the UKIP MEPs and a senior member of the party defected to the Conservatives yesterday.

So everything is getting better?

Bloody marvellous economics.

A bit like starving the patient to death, because he/she has been vomiting.


I suppose it keeps the undertakers and grave diggers employed.

Edit.

as you're such a smart-arse with apparent (well-hidden) answers to every problem in this country, what would you have done and why would your unproven magic wand have worked? .....

applauding the policies in france are you? ..... do you stare in wonder at the catastrophic unemployment in spain where they tried to spend their way out of trouble? .... what about italy? ..... even germany isn't exactly booming; go there and look

of course, you seem not to know that if someone is vomiting, the very last thing they need is food, and certainly not sugary pills .... and this uk patient is certainly nowhere near starving to death .... dry bread and water may not be a favourite diet, but it is often exactly what is needed

Cynic,

Engage your brain.

Go back and read what was posted 12-18-24 months ago.

i have better things to do than rummage through your garbage.... your gob is usually open wide enough, so stand on your soapbox and spout away ..... this is TODAY not 12-18-24 months ago

PS.

Didn't know that G. Brown was responsible for France and Germany's problems. Go back and read your own postings.