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Yes I had thought of the PO and NS&I fronterman. According to wikipedia Lloyds banking group have £1 trillion in 'assets' and £50 billion in equity. As all bookkeepers and accountants know (and people that read about it like me), 'assets' include money that is owed to the business and so this £1 trillion in 'assets' for Lloyds consists of loans made to Mr and Mrs No-Job-And-Broke to buy their ...
It is still not acceptable to scratch someone's car even if it is parked illegally. Could it have been an accident truckerash from someone trying to squeeze by?
Dawlish has contributed £312 million so far to the bailout of the banks according to the ONS: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/crbslbg0111.pdf Here is why: UK public sector debt liability excluding banks is £890 billion. The Northern Rock liability is £130 billion whilst RBS and Lloyds (which includes Halifax) is £1300 billion! So the public sector debt due to banks alone is around £24,000 ...
Thanks PJD. Here is also a link from the BBC website for those who are interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-12278658
Yes, that's bad. Do you know what happened PJD?
Sorry, that was slightly off topic from the original post. I had another point and that was that councils tend to take advantage of fines in order to improve revenue when times get tough. So we need to be on our guards. In fact, the cost of implementing the speeding cameras in 1992 was recovered through the fines imposed on speeding drivers.
Here are some interesting statistics: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1208 The number of deaths each year on UK roads reduced from over 7,000 in 1967 to just over 3,000 in 1992. Since then the number of deaths has been pretty much the same apart from a small decline in 2005. Speed cameras were introduced in the UK in 1992. Therefore, the thing that had the most impact on reducing ...
Please can we get rid of Harrisons Amusement Arcade and all the tacky outlets down that side of the town?
We already new about the tip closing at Shutterton. It was on here a while ago My thought is that If this happens up and down the country then expect to see fly-tipping make a come back.
Lynne, of course it bears thinking about. You can't have free market capitalism if governments pick and choose what companies are allowed to go bust or not. What didn't bear thinking about was the alternative which was the transfer of a huge amount of taxpayer's money, most of which comes from the poorest since most people are poor, to the richest and which clearly continues today unabated as is ...
