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 Post subject: UK loses AAA Rating
PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:44 pm 
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Everything the coalition have done since the election has been designed to protect that rating, all the cuts and austerity have been in preference to losing the rating. Now they're borrowing more than Labour ever borrowed, still in recession, and now the rating has gone. Osbornes in trouble now.

Who's in it together? Not F***in me.


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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:52 pm 
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Nidge2 wrote:
Everything the coalition have done since the election has been designed to protect that rating, all the cuts and austerity have been in preference to losing the rating. Now they're borrowing more than Labour ever borrowed, still in recession, and now the rating has gone. Osbornes in trouble now.

Who's in it together? Not F***in me.


fekk me the pennies dropped

so wot yer gonna do about it demo, strike, civil disobedience, or fekk all :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:11 am 
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Sorry, what was that?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... ating.html

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
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Nidge2 wrote:
Everything the coalition have done since the election has been designed to protect that rating, all the cuts and austerity have been in preference to losing the rating. Now they're borrowing more than Labour ever borrowed, still in recession, and now the rating has gone. Osbornes in trouble now.

Who's in it together? Not F***in me.



Well, they know where I am if they want advice :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:34 am 
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captain cab wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
Everything the coalition have done since the election has been designed to protect that rating, all the cuts and austerity have been in preference to losing the rating. Now they're borrowing more than Labour ever borrowed, still in recession, and now the rating has gone. Osbornes in trouble now.

Who's in it together? Not F***in me.



Well, they know where I am if they want advice :lol:



You can always borrow them your shrapnel bag in the glove box, that'll ease the debt for a few years.


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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:30 am 
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Nidge2 wrote:
Everything the coalition have done since the election has been designed to protect that rating, all the cuts and austerity have been in preference to losing the rating. Now they're borrowing more than Labour ever borrowed, still in recession, and now the rating has gone. Osbornes in trouble now.

Who's in it together? Not F***in me.



devaluation next....

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wannabeeahack wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
Everything the coalition have done since the election has been designed to protect that rating, all the cuts and austerity have been in preference to losing the rating. Now they're borrowing more than Labour ever borrowed, still in recession, and now the rating has gone. Osbornes in trouble now.

Who's in it together? Not F***in me.



devaluation next....


The UK's fecked.
Pretty soon the £ will make the € look like a stable currency. :shock:

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
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And we were never in it together.

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gusmac wrote:
And we were never in it together.


we are, they, and such as they, aren't. :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
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The UK's fecked.
Pretty soon the £ will make the € look like a stable currency.



Andddd...........the other side of the (unintended pun) coin is - Beckham is reported to be paying 14k PER NIGHT to stay in a hotel in France :shock:

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:25 pm 
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A bit of perspective here half of Europe and the USA have already lost their AAA credit rating and these agencies didn't get their ratings right with the banks did they so not many people take them seriously now.

The real problem is the National debt and how are we going to balance the books our credit rating is a side show

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:58 pm 
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AA-Outch, ey?

You know what, when I see this pathetic still boyish looking banker boot-jack of yours now, after he has preserved the wealth of the bankers and ruined the rest of the country, I feel like a rat.

For in 2009 I´ve left a sinking ship.

Cheers, from AAA country.

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does this mean our batteries are now useless?

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:13 pm 
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Nidge2 wrote:
Everything the coalition have done since the election has been designed to protect that rating, all the cuts and austerity have been in preference to losing the rating. Now they're borrowing more than Labour ever borrowed, still in recession, and now the rating has gone. Osbornes in trouble now.

Who's in it together? Not F***in me.

They are not borrowing more than Labour.

But one of the reasons the ratings have dropped is that the Tories are starting to get a bit soft over reducing the debt.

All that said do we really care what these agencies have to say, didn't all of them give top ratings to all those toxic funds/banks we have bailed out?

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 Post subject: Re: UK loses AAA Rating
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wannabeeahack wrote:

devaluation next....

If it makes our exports cheaper, and keeps more holiday makers in this country, alongside making it better for foreign tourists, then bring it on.

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