Guest 3706- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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#1
Without turning this into a Brexit debate, or the ins and outs of government handling of the pandemic:
- What is your prediction for the economy - How do you think it play out??
Guest 3701- Registered: 19 Jul 2020
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#2
It’s not looking good. It’s just a question of how bad it will be. Jobs/ brexit/ cv19/ confidence
If we are lucky I reckon a Keith
If no deal then we are deco into a Jan
Can’t rule out an Elphicke.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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#3
Can we have that again Sardine, this time not in your strange shorthand?
Guest 3701- Registered: 19 Jul 2020
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#4
Nope. I think the astute reader can make sense of it.
Guest 3706- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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#5
Sardine wrote:Nope. I think the astute reader can make sense of it.
Don't overestimate the OP'er :)
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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#6
Generally speaking, I think it's either going to be this bad, or that bad. There are only gradations of bad.
A second covid wave and no deal Brexit puts it absolutely horrendous; a vaccine, no second wave and a deal with the EU puts it at fairly bad.
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#7
DFL wrote:Without turning this into a Brexit debate, or the ins and outs of government handling of the pandemic:
- What is your prediction for the economy - How do you think it play out??
That’s a loaded question DFL and one that will draw different predictions according to the age and experience of forum members.
I believe that there is no short term fix as it will take many years to pan out, but the only way is up if there’s a real desire to make it work.
There have been many hits on the U.K. economy, the struggle after WW2, the miners national strike and a 3 day working week readily spring to mind.
We came through these by adopting a must do attitude and hopefully this will re-emerge now that it is needed again.
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Guest 3706- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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Bob Whysman wrote:That’s a loaded question DFL and one that will draw different predictions according to the age and experience of forum members.
I believe that there is no short term fix as it will take many years to pan out, but the only way is up if there’s a real desire to make it work.
There have been many hits on the U.K. economy, the struggle after WW2, the miners national strike and a 3 day working week readily spring to mind.
We came through these by adopting a must do attitude and hopefully this will re-emerge now that it is needed again.
Generally my feeling that this is not an economic downturn as such, but a confidence dip due to the unforeseen virus. As we learn to live with it, and a possible vaccine or medication to limit it, comes about......who knows, good news must follow. Many things will never be the same again. Not least how people work. The world has moved online, unless you are a builder!
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#9
(as tweeted by Mrs E) Oh ye of little faith! Feel like we ought to ring the church bells or something...
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Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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#10
It only goes to show the disregard and even contempt she must have for her constituents.
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Weird Granny Slater
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#11
The doppelgangers push their nonsense because they assume that enough of the electorate are economic and political simpletons. That the doppelgangers are even in office, and the certainty that they will still be in office after the next election, kind of suggests that assumption is fully justified.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon
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#12
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Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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#13
If Natalie wants to show some honesty and understanding about the state of our economy and its prospects for the future, she should consider this hapless example of Johnson's boosterism and Brexit BS.
www.britishvolt.com
Collective hand wringing does nothing to hide the reality that nobody wants to invest in a giga factory for cars which won't be built in sufficient numbers to to justify the enormous capital outlay. And why won't they be built? Answers on a postcard to Natalie please.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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#14
She's never had to struggle
I hope all of you that have issues with her
That they ask conservative candidates next April if they support her
If they say yes I would suggest you DONT
Vote conservative
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Jan Higgins
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#15
Local elections should be about the quality of the councillor nor which party they happen to support.
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#16
James Dyson attacks Rishi Sunak’s ‘shortsighted, stupid’ tax policies.
(Though one suspects that if asked he would describe Keith Starmer's policies as even more shortsighted and stupid? But as people will point out he's never been so useless at budgeting that he's had to use a food bank so what would he know!)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/19/james-dyson-attacks-rishi-sunaks-shortsighted-stupid-tax-policies"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#17
Questions being asked on Centrica profits and charges to local people
Hopefully the hike in prices will drop soon
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