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TruBlue
Are Nissan going to cover the extra 9p a litre that he has to put in his Range Rover? If he doesn't sell this holiday home soon he's going to have to trade in his Sport for an Evoque in the near future.
If he buys a Nissan and gets rid of his gas guzzling piece of junk his 9p per litre will be more than compensated
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Cost of an apple iMac 4k snuck up by £250 last night to £1499 due to the weak pound
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Rjk
Cost of an apple iMac 4k snuck up by £250 last night to £1499 due to the weak pound
#firstworldproblems
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Rjk
Cost of an apple iMac 4k snuck up by £250 last night to £1499 due to the weak pound
Don't buy one then.
They'll soon put the price down when they realise people aren't prepared to pay over the odds for their shit.
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Nelsonca61
Nissan does not share your angst. Neither does the economy.
Labour and the others said it is a disgrace Nissan haven't been reassured.
They get reassurances.
Now Labour and others demand to know what the government reassurances were, instead of congratulating May's government for securing such a huge plus for the North and the UK.
What exactly would Corbyn be doing that May isn't?. Crushing industries by punishing business, leading to their flight from the country?. Maybe. That is what I'd imagine would happen from his politics.
The life of the opposition is easy.
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BlueWales
Petrol has gone up 9 pence a litre in 10 days at my local garage thanks to the uncertainty you dumbos created.
What have you tossers done ?:angry:
Pity we didn't MAN UP and join our Celtic cousins and vote to stay in ,we will be big loses in more way you can imagine in the near future ,we we had net contributions funding from European funds,no way on earth are Westminster going to match that one,whoever is in power ,Europe was good to us .
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Dr Lecter
Don't buy one then.
They'll soon put the price down when they realise people aren't prepared to pay over the odds for their shit.
I wouldn't dream of buying one of their overpriced products. But it could be a sign that we are starting to seethe low pound being reflected in price rises now.
Expect to see a lot more price rises in the coming weeks if so.
Just in time for Christmas eh?
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Rjk
I wouldn't dream of buying one of their overpriced products. But it could be a sign that we are starting to seethe low pound being reflected in price rises now.
Expect to see a lot more price rises in the coming weeks if so.
Just in time for Christmas eh?
Too right, have you seen how much you have to pay for a chateaux in provence these days???
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TruBlue
Are Nissan going to cover the extra 9p a litre that he has to put in his Range Rover? If he doesn't sell this holiday home soon he's going to have to trade in his Sport for an Evoque in the near future.
How about the theory that it's the bankers such as Goldman Sachs, along with George Soros and other associated groups who are trying to undermind our currency? One could certainly speculate as to whether or not Mark Carney is playing for the away team. A weak Pound is central to those wishing to stage a second referendum. I suspect the doom, gloom and fear will be with us until they dot the i's and cross the t's on the Brexit agreement.
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Organ Morgan.
We don't and won't know what guarantees the government gave them. UK manufacturing employed around eight million UK citizens in 1979. Now it's about two million. The 7,000 Sunderland jobs and 30,000 linked to them in the supply chain is a relatively tiny number. Britain's Services, mostly finance related (people shuffling pieces of paper around) is the economy's biggest driver, along with flipping overpriced homes, aided by record low interest rates, and massive government, corporate and personal debt. The latter is the highest per head of population worldwide. All that to produce 0.5% growth.
Per quarter. Or just over 2% annualised.
And its much more than all? that.
Though I agree we need to get off the life support of cheap credit. Its got the potential to lead to bigger problems.
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Dr Lecter
Don't buy one then.
They'll soon put the price down when they realise people aren't prepared to pay over the odds for their shit.
Nearly 3k for a new MacBook Pro with a CPU that is about to be replaced by Kaby Lake :hehe:
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life on mars
Pity we didn't MAN UP and join our Celtic cousins and vote to stay in ,we will be big loses in more way you can imagine in the near future ,we we had net contributions funding from European funds,no way on earth are Westminster going to match that one,whoever is in power ,Europe was good to us .
Europe was good for us? Europe gentrified the valleys. Europe spent lots of money on vanity projects. The outcome. Still poor.
That is why people voted out. European money has done little for the poorest in wales. A better looking high street is about all they have seen.
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Wales-Bales
How about the theory that it's the bankers such as Goldman Sachs, along with George Soros and other associated groups who are trying to undermind our currency? One could certainly speculate as to whether or not Mark Carney is playing for the away team. A weak Pound is central to those wishing to stage a second referendum. I suspect the doom, gloom and fear will be with us until they dot the i's and cross the t's on the Brexit agreement.
Well. A weak pound is good for the economy. So you could also argue that a strong pound has undermined the country for too long. A strong pound that was lifted by our financial sector.
Carney reducing interest rates was not needed, and I wouldnt be too surprised if it was a move to make people feel the brexit vote in their pockets.
I wouldnt be surprised that the governments reassurance to Nissan was a low value to sterling. Its easy to manipulate a currency to a level. Japan and the Swiss do it all the time.
People will have to make a decision between a strong economy with rising wages and more manufacturing jobs. Or a foreign holiday with static wages...
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Barry Dragon
Europe was good for us? Europe gentrified the valleys. Europe spent lots of money on vanity projects. The outcome. Still poor.
That is why people voted out. European money has done little for the poorest in wales. A better looking high street is about all they have seen.
At least Europe actually spent money on infrastructure projects that could actually improve things.
You don't see Westminster rushing to spend any money here.
The Westminster opinion is that wales gets all this money in benefits anyway , so they dont deserve anymore for infrastructure.
Benefits money doesn't change anything in the long run.
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Barry Dragon
Europe was good for us? Europe gentrified the valleys. Europe spent lots of money on vanity projects. The outcome. Still poor.
That is why people voted out. European money has done little for the poorest in wales. A better looking high street is about all they have seen.
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Barry Dragon
Europe was good for us? Europe gentrified the valleys. Europe spent lots of money on vanity projects. The outcome. Still poor.
That is why people voted out. European money has done little for the poorest in wales. A better looking high street is about all they have seen.
that is more about how our politicians spent the money
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Rjk
At least Europe actually spent money on infrastructure projects that could actually improve things.
You don't see Westminster rushing to spend any money here.
The Westminster opinion is that wales gets all this money in benefits anyway , so they dont deserve anymore for infrastructure.
Benefits money doesn't change anything in the long run.
M4 relief road. Electrification of the rails. All done by WAG with Westminsters approval for funding.
And bear-in-mind that westminster doesnt need to fund some things as its already paid EU to do it. Money spent by EU comes from the UK. Why spent more money on things when you can get the money you have paid to fund it.
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Britons will have to adapt to the changes in the pound's debasement by spending less or earning more or borrowing more. The last option is the most popular with those who are not that bright. The middle one requires a little aspiration. The first involves an increasingly old-fashioned value known as thrift.
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Organ Morgan.
Britons will have to adapt to the changes in the pound's debasement by spending less or earning more or borrowing more. The last option is the most popular with those who are not that bright. The middle one requires a little aspiration. The first involves an increasingly old-fashioned value known as thrift.
I thought the whole point of low interest rates was to encourage borrowing and increase spending????
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The reasons for rock-bottom interest rates is to maintain the housing bubble and to rob savers and with it reward borrowers. Where once it was easy to maintain one's net worth by parking dough in an inflation-matching interest bearing savings account, since 2008 it's beeen a headless chicken race to gain yield. Cue the proliferation of amateur landlords and stock pickers.
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Reasons? Or consequences
It's to ensure risk adverse corporations are encouraged to spend. There are many other trickle down effects.
I am sure the cheap credit came about when there was a housing collapse coming. And the housing market was on its knees. The London housing bubble was a consequence.
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Talking to my account manger at MoneyCorp and she was telling me they expect the years to finish at £1 - $1.10-15
If America put up interest rates this could well happen.
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Barry Dragon
M4 relief road. Electrification of the rails. All done by WAG with Westminsters approval for funding.
And bear-in-mind that westminster doesnt need to fund some things as its already paid EU to do it. Money spent by EU comes from the UK. Why spent more money on things when you can get the money you have paid to fund it.
As far as I'm aware (and do let us know if this isn't true) these haven't actually happened yet, that is, if they ever happen. It's also a bit of a dual standard here. you say the EU uses UK money. how about the UK using Welsh money? sure, they give us a lot in subsidies (there's an argument here about whether they should or not, for another time maybe) but it's not all 'UK money'. To paraphrase a common brexit argument - 'There's no such thing as UK money, it's ours and they give it back to us'.
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We are where we are, whether we wanted it or not, and whether it is going 'as expected' or not.
The only thing we can do currently is get on with it. Whatever 'it' is.
And not allow the Gov't of the day to falsely force further difficulties upon the ordinary people, perhaps in the name of Brexit.
We may have to make some sacrifices or temporary alterations if things get tight.
A reduction in Apple-mania (and similar-mania) and a kerbing of overt consumerism in general won't harm us , and may help refresh our slightly decaying society.