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Genuine Question: How many UK 'shop floor' jobs are reliant on bankers receiving and then spending their large bonuses in the UK?

Interesting, perhaps, to note that Thatcher stuck to 'average' public spending rises in her first half of her reign.

Barclays

Putting yesterday's "cuts" (aka re-balance of public spending vs GDP) into perspective.....

The price one pays for being a Guardian reader I guess....

Anyway, is anyone keeping the score on this thread in my absence? It looks fairly even in the usual "my quote is better than your quote ner ner ner ner ner" exchanges

Which makes it even more incredible why bottler Brown stood by and let it unfold before his very eyes.....

A big increase in wages or a one off re-signing bonus?

They've been waiting for you to return Sir :-)

Very poor performance by Alan Johnstone IMHO Was fairly lucid when reading from his prepared notes but bumbled his way through the unscripted bits. And emailing the outdside world part way through GO's speech admitting that "Labour had no plan and welcomed ideas". What was that all about?

Knees jerking? On this forum? Never!

Yes. HTH

LoL at "Under 21" label

The same core voters who will be shafted for said 4 years to clear up Labour's "spend and borrow without thinking about the long term consequences". I think in 4 years time a tax cut or two will have been well deserved by those on modest incomes.

Question: do I need to pay line rental if I only use the line for broadband? In other words, given I use my landline very little, I don't need the phone anymore, just Internet. So, can I get a package that excludes landline telephone rental? Cheers

I asked my question first. You go first with the answer to mine then I'll answer yours. ;-)

Why of course Sir. Be my guest :-)

Genuine question: what skills do the heads of britain's blue chip companies lack which are required for running an economy? As I say, not a wind up question.

;-) Pssst....don't worry....I'm secretly on your side...just trying to confuse the enemy comrade

How long does it take to build an aircraft carrier compared to the aircraft one places on it? (serious question. If, say, it takes 10 years to build the carrier but only 5 to build the aircraft then maybe we buy the aircraft a bit later when the money situation is better?)

Can't we just pretend to have one? You know, like those false alarm boxes on houses? How would Iran etc know whether we actually have one or not? As long as we tell them we've got a big weapon then they will be none the wiser. We could even get the Americans to print a false receipt in case they ask to see proof of purchase.

'whooosh' count on this thread thus far = 4

You gotta love those really witty facebook groups... I trust there's an equally amusing "we hate the ConDems" page too? ;-)

My underpants. I had pledged not to change them until we'd gone 5 games on the trot unbeaten.