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He made a vaid point for a significant proportion of the population (maybe the majority, I wouldn't know). However he expressed it monumentally badly from a political standpoint.

Wow. Just wow.

I guess they are aimed at the "youth market"? To me however they appear to be advertising banking for morons.

Are they a company or sole traders? Do you have an address for them or just mobile numbers?

He is definately allowed to have you with him. I wouldn't know about the other stuff though I'm afraid.

Frustrating would have been a better word. It makes the whole thing even more pointless (from the thieves point of view). Anyway. Calmed down a bit now.

It was almost definately a skate. I also descovered today that I had my expense recipts for the last 3 months in that bag... A R S E That's why you should put them in quickly!

Becuase I had planned to use the bag at the weekend. Silly me. *&(£ing c*(%s Its the futility of it all that has irritated me the most.

Just back from the anchor and hope on the cut (near waterloo). Some $^% c*&t has decided to steal my rucksack which was next to our table. Even more annoying is that they didn't even steal anyhitng of value. Knowing that I was going out for a couple of drinks I left my laptop and everything of value in the office so they have made off with a rucksack (with 1 knackered zip) and my remote key fob to be able to remotely log into the work network (without my log in details, and pin code this is also useless). Pointless theft, other than to p*ss me off and make me have to get a b*llocking from IT (for the fob) in the morning. C**nts. No idea why i feel the need to post this on here but rant over. Thieving ****ing C**nts.

Do this. No question

LOL . For what its worth I agree, why shouldn't we offer a financial incentive for those who might move into courses which will help in covering a shortfall in a desired skill? It doesn't mean that a philosophy (or what ever) degree isn't valuble. It just means that the country is seeking to recruit high caliber students into courses which it considers beneficial. What courses those are will no doubt change depending on the circumstances of the time. For example if we a short of nurses or octors then their courses could be discounted.

Was just kidding.

A graduate working hard, doing well for himself and no doubt earning a lot of money. I bet he voted conservative.

Tony Blair's policy (or his government's anyway) of wanting 50% of school leavers to go to Uni was just plain stupid. For many of those who have been to Uni in the last few years I'm sure that vocational courses or getting straight into the working world would have been far more beneficial to them. The brightest should go to Uni regardless of background (hence the subisdy for high A level grades above), insisting that everybody goes, even if it means wasting 3 years studying Kilingon from the union bar is a waste of both money and time.

I would offer a subsidy to those gaining higher grades (regardless of course). If a student gained 4 A*s and wants to go to uni then they are more deserving of the nation's investment than another wanting to go to the University of making up the numbers with 1 E and an F.

Has his gardening leave finished yet?

Well, has your opinion of insolvency practitioners gone up or down as a result of AA's performance. This makes the bitter taste twice as bad for me.

Until the administration ends all losses incurred are costs of the administration. If AA fails to raise enough funds to cover them by selling the assets then he becomes personally liable. After the club is sold to a new company the running costs are costs to be covered by the new company. Those incurred prior to the sale will remain as costs of the administration. I haven't had the heart to read all of the CVA documentation (I know, I know, I really should), however I beleive that the payments to creditors were based up x pence in the pound less costs. Hmmm...

There are always jobs available. They might not be ones that people want to do, especially if they are only marginally worse off by staying on benefits instead

On the assumption that the above post is what you are referring to... that isn't what I said. Doing better than another economy isn't actually that great if that economy is totally in the sh1t (and round the u-bend). You may as well tell Rickie that his loss of form isn't really that much of a problem because he's still better up front that me.

I don't know what the actual figures are for debt as a % of gdp (they might well be as shown on that graphic but doing well comparatively to most of the countries shown does not actually mean that we are doing well.

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The figures don't even match up within the single document. In the graphic UK debt = $1.05trillion In the text below UK debt = $42.2 trillion I don't know what the actual figures would be (although no doubt they are easily available to anybody with access to google) but I don't think that these are the best to use to make a point.

This is the attitude that really irritates me. The Investment bankers have to shoulder a large portion of the blame however blind scapegoating and pitchfork waving only goes to demonstrate a lack of understanding. Yes the investment bankers are partly responsible, however the misregulation (again contrary to popular vitrol there was lots of regulation, a lot of which was put in place by Gordon Brown, it was just totally inadequate). We would also not be in the current situation if the defecit had not been allowed to run as high as it was PRIOR to the crisis. Had we not sold our gold reserves at the bottom of the market (again thanks to one G Brown who still refuses to even acknowledge that even with hindsight this was a teeny tiny mistake) etc etc

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