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Great piece by Larry. Actually Fred, I had a bit of a Sunday wobbler in the supermarket yesterday - an over-active imagination combined with post-Saturday weariness got me to thinking about how the customers would behave if there were shortages and empty shelves. I shudder to think what some of them would be reduced to.

that's all well and good, but just what has any of it got to do with "multicultural Britain"?

of course - HAs will also need underwriting by the taxpayer. They've got some pretty hefty deficits and borrowing already...

Goodfellow is a very smart operator. He bought a small telephone broker in the early 90s and sold it for a collosal profit in 2000 just as the market peaked.

with respect to the OP - I have seen this in many places in London of late, the latest example being a West Indian take-away in Tottenham.

Clearly - and unsurprisingly - there is still widespread reluctance on Tyneside to acknowledge just how rotten NRK had become.

Please! This is a person who was famed on Teesside for setting fire to high denomination banknotes in his favourite boozer after went on full professional terms with L**ds, and could often be found face down in a pile of Bonnie Prince in his time in Madrid. Not to mention his inate hatred of students which led him to be barred from Teesside Poly SU and become involved in a particularly notorious affray in Leeds some years ago.

How many of these products have been sold in the last few months though? I can't imagine it was very many.

Corruption Perceptions? (I'm by no means ramping anything btw, the cultural differences alone would have most UK investors tearing their hair out within weeks)

Capital growth has been strong in Ghana lately, and in many other Anglophone African countries - obviously the ones that are most stable. This is partly due to the expat community drawing away some of the credit bubble prevalent in the Anglo-Saxon world. and so far as corruption is concerned - its no worse than here. We're just better at hiding it, that's all. There's plenty of posters on here who devote a large proportion of their posts decrying how corrupt the financial and social systems of this country are - its a bit rich to start throwing round tired old cliches about African countries that most here have never even visited.

Indeed... is it the pearly gates for this govt?

Although I still hold to the view that the area will suffer disproportionately - principally due to over-capacity in the new-build flat market - it may merit a mention that my mother (58 years of age and recently retired) stated that she found the area an attractive proposition because "everything is here". Although I work here, I wouldn't want to live round here (I preferred a 25 minute cycle from E5) without significant discounting as I still consider it to be somewhat "culturally underpowered" and lacking in soul - but each to their own, I suppose.

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There are already an unutterably vast number of empty flats on the IoD, with many thousands more already being built. I'd say the prospects are extraordinarily grim.

Rallying. Recession cancelled.

Looks like the IR medicine is wearing off pretty darn quickly!

That's the ticket Dogbox, you tell those silly pessimists!

is he the gadgie who comes on News24? My friend at Cantor says he's a good guy, but if its the same one, I don't believe it!

just dropping off another cliff now

rallying now

Its all true. The only way I can "perform" these days is if I close my eyes and picture the 30s dustbowl...

Hmm, file alongside "we can solve this problem caused by bad loans by making it easier for people to get credit"

Private Eye had some interesting things to say about the bid this week.