Financial Meltdown

lancsdave

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Greece nearly bust, Italy going down the pan, and even worse Tesco sales at their lowest for 20 years. We're all doomed :(
 
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.
 
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:
 
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
 
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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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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:
 
if you don't have one........we can lend you one. On a non return basis, that is!

A generous offer .... howerver, thanx, but no thanx.:D

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but you are all no doubt sitting on the edge of your seats waiting for the results of today's Onatario General Election ;) ... I've been following it all night. And it looks like we have another Liberal (Lib-Dem, sort of) government with the NDP (Labour, more old than new) making gains. And it is a minority govt.:alright::alright::alright: That should keep the buggers honest ... or, as close to being honest as politicians can be:)
 
A generous offer .... however, thanks, but no thanks.:D

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but you are all no doubt sitting on the edge of your seats waiting for the results of today's Ontario General Election ;) ... I've been following it all night. And it looks like we have another Liberal (Lib-Dem, sort of) government with the NDP (Labour, more old than new) making gains. And it is a minority govt.:alright::alright::alright: That should keep the buggers honest ... or, as close to being honest as politicians can be:)
That's funny Eric I always thought the Canucks wanted to share everything with good old blighty:D
 
That's funny Eric I always thought the Canucks wanted to share everything with good old blighty:D

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:Don't hold your breath on that one.

Thing is, from what I read on here, good old blighty has been sharing too much with folks that roll up to the door, cap in hand, no knowledge of English, and a large extended family to feed.:rolleyes:
 
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