Financial Meltdown

[lancsdave]

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

[garinda]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

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]

Originally Posted by garinda

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

[garinda]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

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

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]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

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

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]

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

[garinda]

Originally Posted by accyman

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.

[Margaret Pilkington]

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]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

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 ? (3rd Paragraph)

The feud that saved Britain

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by garinda

We determinedly send London's fancy office nowt.

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

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

its all gordon browns fault oh hold on he stopped us from joining the euro 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]

What financial meltdown

[Margaret Pilkington]

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

[Mancie]

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"...