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Re: what a clever scam by the royal mint
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Originally Posted by Mancie
 ..Oh how we tend to forget the past... perhaps we should re- join the ERM ..Thatcher and Lamont's doing... the closest this country has ever been to joining the Euro!
Chancellor Norman Lamont raised interest rates from 10% to 12%, then to 15%, and authorised the spending of billions of pounds to buy up the sterling being frantically sold on the currency markets.
BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1992: UK crashes out of ERM |
But they still didn't leave the tip that our economy is in today £1 trillion in debt and counting 
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35 YEARS AND COUNTING
Last edited by Neil; 09-03-2010 at 13:07.
Reason: language
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