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.

The wire news quite clearly states core CPI excludes food, energy and tobbaco and alcohol.............................and we already knew it excluded mortgage charges.

Tell hays to get updated research.

You said........... cynic - 26 Mar 2014 18:59 - 38899 of 38902

sticky - do me and everyone else a favour and read post 38898 re CPI .... the polite comment to you should be "you are badly mistaken" ..... only mortgage costs are (i think) excluded as they go into the RPI calc............................ends

post 38898 reads..........

Haystack - 26 Mar 2014 18:53 - 38898 of 38902

Battle of the Muppets!.............................ends

Cyners what have the muppets got to do with CPI????????????????????????????

You been knocking back the hard stuff on the golf course this afternoon???????????

And in fact I have further evidence the items I mentioned are included in RPI rather than CPI here........

Table 1: High level RPI weights since 1987

RPI GROUP 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007 2012 2013
Food 167 . 152 . 136 . 114 . 105 . 114 116
Catering 46 . 47 . 49 . 52 . 47 . 47 47
Alcohol 76 . 80 . 80 . 68 . 66 . 56 61
Tobacco 38 . 36 . 34 . 31 . 29 . 29 30
Housing 157 . 172 . 1861
. 199 . 238 . 237 254

Cynic..........It doesnt matter I dont need an apology. Im a meek type of guy.

you, you're downright aggressive!

i have no problem at all in apologising, and i fully concur that it's absolutely nuts to exclude those key items even from "core CPI" whatever that may be, though perhaps it is the RPI we should be more concerned with, which apparently does include those items



by the way, orange juice and lemonade at lunchtime with no ice :-) .... and nor did i post or even allude or link muppets to CPI

cynic
I made a comment about the Battle of the Muppets. It was made about the Clegg vs Farage debate this evening..

What a pair of muppets they were. Nothing sensible said by either.

Muppets?

maybe, but at least they had the bottle to fight it out on live tv, unlike the other two.


anyway, opinion says Farage won it by a whisker.



Call me Dave and the lesser spotted Millibandus will not be queueing up for a big one, cos either of the two tonight would wipe the floor with the pair of them.

FARAGE won on points.

POLL SHOWS

You Gov Poll.


57% to Farage 36% to Clegg

FARAGE Lands a knock out blow.

Look out Tory Boys.

That's a big win for Farage, I'm surprised, cos Nick is slick.

Official result of poll....You Gov Poll

Guido Fawkes ‏@GuidoFawkes
Yougov/Sun: Farage 57% – 36% Clegg

Hays Hays Hays Hays.........

a big kick in the goolies for the Tories.

Millys going to nos 10, Millys going to nos 10, Millys going to nos 10 dar ra ra ra dar ra ra ra.

Millibandus is in the doo doo, the consensus is for a real referendum.

MaX do me a favour and pass on the result to Hays.

I will if I see him gf, but I suspect he will have the vapours after that little show.

If Labour win the 2015 election which looks likely 2017 will just be an idea on a memo.

LOL yep max. Hes probably hiding under the bed.

SKY News viewers also give Farage the victory by at least 2-1.

Tories beware.

Manuel.

You wrote:

"i have no problem at all in apologising",


With all your problems, I am sure you have got used to apologising!

Could be water of a ducky's back!

8-)

Thought Clegg to be a Liberal Democrat, hey ho