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lancsdave 05-10-2011 17:55

Financial Meltdown
 
Greece nearly bust, Italy going down the pan, and even worse Tesco sales at their lowest for 20 years. We're all doomed :(

garinda 05-10-2011 18:28

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Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 938138)
Greece nearly bust, Italy going down the pan, and even worse Tesco sales at their lowest for 20 years. We're all doomed :(

On the positive side...

Charity shops profits up 12 per cent - Civil Society - Finance - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits

Which would account for the feel good factor we're currently experiencing in Accrington.

As Graham said, 'Great places move on, and evolve'.

Bye-bye traditional businesses.

Hello musty woolens.

Evolution.

Great.

lancsdave 05-10-2011 18:45

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 938148)
On the positive side...

Charity shops profits up 12 per cent - Civil Society - Finance - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits

Which would account for the feel good factor we're currently experiencing in Accrington.

As Graham said, 'Great places move on, and evolve'.

Bye-bye traditional businesses.

Hello musty woolens.

Evolution.

Great.


Obviously in our line of work we get asked to help out charities quite a lot, maybe thats why their profits are up. Might change our name to GiftAidPrint, we might even make a living :rolleyes:

garinda 05-10-2011 18:48

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Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 938156)
Obviously in our line of work we get asked to help out charities quite a lot, maybe thats why their profits are up. Might change our name to GiftAidPrint, we might even make a living :rolleyes:

What does 'help out' mean?

Give special rates to?

You should go on strike Brother.

East Lancashire charity workers? strike vote plan (From Lancashire Telegraph)

accyman 05-10-2011 19:23

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Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 938156)
Obviously in our line of work we get asked to help out charities quite a lot, maybe thats why their profits are up. Might change our name to GiftAidPrint, we might even make a living :rolleyes:

theres a lot of money to be made out of charity.Them oxfam directors dont drive around in bentleys etc because they are eco friendly and teh cheaper option ;)

always cracks me up when i see people giving tehir free time for organiszations such as oxfam stood in teh rain freezing to death while teh top guys get chaufered around to meetings.

this is why when i participate in fund raising events i make sure its for a local cause

cmonstanley 05-10-2011 19:42

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its all gordon browns fault;) oh hold on he stopped us from joining the euro:p Chris Patten: a big disappointment all round | The Spectator

garinda 05-10-2011 19:45

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Originally Posted by accyman (Post 938177)
theres a lot of money to be made out of charity.Them oxfam directors dont drive around in bentleys etc because they are eco friendly and teh cheaper option ;)

always cracks me up when i see people giving tehir free time for organiszations such as oxfam stood in teh rain freezing to death while teh top guys get chaufered around to meetings.

this is why when i participate in fund raising events i make sure its for a local cause

It always amuses Cllr. Wendy Dwyer and myself, when we have the twin-set and pearls ladies up, from Parkinson's UK headquarters in London.

That they're always saying they 'do charity work'.

We always say 'No you're not. You're employed by a charity, and receive a generous salary for your efforts'.

By the way, any money we are lucky enough to be given gets spent up here, unless someone specifies they want it used towards research.

We determinedly send London's fancy office nowt.

:D

Margaret Pilkington 05-10-2011 19:47

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Well, yes he might have stopped us from joining the Euro, but he DID sell all the gold reserves at the bottom of the market...(when we didn't actually need the money) so that labour could go on a good old spending spree.......not the best of moves that........but ah you seem to have missed mentioning that one.
Prudence wasn't quite as prudent as he might have been.

DaveinGermany 05-10-2011 20:24

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Originally Posted by cmonstanley (Post 938187)
its all gordon browns fault;) oh hold on he stopped us from joining the euro

Really ? Was it truly an economically inspired undertaking or more to spite his nemesis Blair ? :rolleyes: (3rd Paragraph)

The feud that saved Britain

mobertol 05-10-2011 21:27

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 938188)

We determinedly send London's fancy office nowt.

:D

Well done -as they say, "Charity begins at home" and that's where it should stay.

garinda 05-10-2011 21:40

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 938189)
Well, yes he might have stopped us from joining the Euro, but he DID sell all the gold reserves at the bottom of the market

Just think how much better off we'd all be, if he'd waited a bit, and heeded all the advice.

Goldfinger Brown’s £2 billion blunder in the bullion market - Times Online

The fecklessly humourless Scot could have sat cross-legged in his flat in Number 11, stuffing the nation's gold reserve into those pre-paid envelopes, addressed to We Buy Any Gold.

jaysay 06-10-2011 09:27

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Originally Posted by cmonstanley (Post 938187)
its all gordon browns fault;) oh hold on he stopped us from joining the euro:p Chris Patten:*a big disappointment all round | The Spectator

I blame you C'mon its all your fault, well the people you so readily support, you just remind me of the chap that goes into a crowded lift and lets out a SBD then looks at everybody else trying to shift the blame;)

Eric 06-10-2011 20:16

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What financial meltdown:confused::D

Margaret Pilkington 06-10-2011 21:01

Re: Financial Meltdown
 
if you don't have one........we can lend you one. On a non return basis, that is!

Mancie 06-10-2011 23:20

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But sly boy Osbourne and this Government have it all in hand..they have told the Bank of England to print £75 billion more money and give it to the banks :).. the same as the last lot did 2yrs ago when Osbourne said it was (quote) .."the last resort of desperate governments"...:rolleyes:


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