What is that "mate" of mine Sadiq Khan trying to achieve ?

 

You lost you demented little cretin, get over it and concentrate on your job you terrorist sympathiser.

So, definite Armageddon

 

What are we all doing to protect our future and our family?

I've recently set up trade deals with african clients and i've good going to Ghana, Congo and Cameroon.

 

Otherwise know as selling stuff in bulk to 3 different lasses who ship it home to their family

Their website says the oecd promote Policies that will improve economic and social well being of people. So instead of commenting on the UK reversing a democratic vote shouldn't they be actively working to get the EU and UK to get a deal agreed? That they are not doing that and that they were anti Brexit in the run upto the vote and made unsubstantiated claims about Brexit which were clearly wide of the mark, makes me think the OECD are siding clearly with the EU.

 

Read the report. What they are outlining is recommendations for the relationship that should be negotiated. It is an evidence based report with each source cited and uses peer reviewed evidence. At no point do they say we should have a second referendum or stop Brexit.

What they do is outline potential outcomes and their effect on growth in a table. One such outcome is a "political change" leading to Brexit reversal. Which they project would be good for economic growth.

 

They don't outright at any point recommend anything other than concluding the closest trading relationship with the EU possible as a result of talks.

Dreadful news

 

If interest rates rise from 0.25% to 0.50% next month (or indeed any month) the headlines will scream INTEREST RATES DOUBLED.

While this will be true, it will be extremely misleading.

its not misleading at all, its a fact and therefore true, it will have doubled

I'm already looking to minimise my exposure to a recession, batten down the hatches now i reckon

No, silly, I am retired, and I never did work in the Civil Service.

 

And my friend was a statistician, not Permanent Secretary.

 

The other was head of a university economics department before over a decade as vice-chancellor.

Half my office are statisticians and researchers. 

 

My ex wife was a Grade 7 civil servant.

 

My mate Ollie from Sheffield has just passed his driving test.

 

We can play this all day, Malc. All day.

Abolish the triple lock and let the fuckers manage like the rest of us on 1 or 2% increases every couple of years.

If interest rates rise from 0.25% to 0.50% next month (or indeed any month) the headlines will scream INTEREST RATES DOUBLED.

While this will be true, it will be extremely misleading.

I'll bear this in mind thank you????

Half my office are statisticians and researchers. 

 

My ex wife was a Grade 7 civil servant.

 

My mate Ollie from Sheffield has just passed his driving test.

 

We can play this all day, Malc. All day.

 

Well perhaps one of them can explain how hardly any pensioners will actually receive a full 3% increase.

Increase Carlos what the fuck is that all about

I've asked Ollie and he says you're diverting the point because you haven't actually got an answer to any of the previous statements.

 

Ollie's a bright lad, only the first from Oxford.

 

See, all day long, Malcolm me old duffer.

 

(well, actually not all day - I've got to take the eldest to see a school in a bit)

Edited October 17, 20178 yr by Not in Crawley

Increase Carlos what the fuck is that all about

M&S is full of the fuckers waving their final salary pensions around.

I've asked Ollie and he says you're diverting the point because you haven't actually got an answer to any of the previous statements.

 

Ollie's a bright lad, only the first from Oxford.

 

See, all day long, Malcolm me old duffer.

 

(well, actually not all day - I've got to take the eldest to see a school in a bit)

 

"It is still a truth that the lowest earners in our society will be hit badly."

 

Nothing to disagree with there - they usually are.

Abolish the triple lock and let the fuckers manage like the rest of us on 1 or 2% increases every couple of years.

 

 

wouldnt that be nice

Fortunately I work for a global company.

Kent and I are going to start up our band again and achieve world fame. At this point I'll have a Bono-esque belief I can change the world through mid-tempo ballads and personally hold the Brexit talks at my house.

 

I will then hold all the cards, and there will no jockeying for position as everyone will have set placenames.

 

Do you a need a competent sax player?

Do you a need a competent sax player?

We need some competent tax payers....

And you are permanent secretary to the cabinet?

 

Or I take it you have as much of an idea as we all done about the inner workings of the cabinet office?

I quite agree with your last sentence. On that basis I'm reasonably content not to be fully briefed on brexit positions and strategies. Especially given that compromises will have to be made.

 

Perfectly happy to leave the government to it and judge later- that's what they're there to do.

I'm still clinging onto the dim hope that we're trying to lull them into a false sense of security by appearing incompetent before fooling them into a deal which sees us on top.

I work for a global organisation. Fuck all this year, 1.5% last year, fuck all the year before.

If you felt an atmospheric pressure drop - it'll be the collective intake of breath from 51% if the population on hearing the latest advice from the OECD.

 

Codswallop plus. Their assertions are based on the 'no deal' scenario. We all know that's not going to happen but we need the threat of it just to keep those cuntinentals honest.

 

Edited to highlight that bit after reading more folk willing to swallow the OECD line hook, line and sinker.

Edited October 18, 20178 yr by bolty58

Codswallop plus. Their assertions are based on the 'no deal' scenario. We all know that's not going to happen but we need the threat of it just to keep those cuntinentals honest.

 

Edited to highlight that bit after reading more folk willing to swallow the OECD line hook, line and sinker.

 

They model most of the conceivable scenarios, not just that one. 

They model most of the conceivable scenarios, not just that one. 

 

You'd think someone who expresses such strong opinions about a report would've actually read it, wouldn't you?

Edited October 18, 20178 yr by Cheese

I'm already looking to minimise my exposure to a recession, batten down the hatches now i reckon

Think you'll be ok, when we come out of the other side when deals all sorted I'm confident you'll be thinking was that it.

Edited October 18, 20178 yr by Mounts Kipper

Think you'll be ok, when we come out of the other side when deals all sorted I'm confident you'll be thinking was that it.

 

So you think we might enter a recession then?