Are we heading for recession?

It might be on the cards but it's definitely not on the table. Unless the cards are on the table.

It's certainly on the cards, it's called a 'P.45' and a lot of people in this country have been given this deck of cards to play with. I think this country is already in recession although the government's news agency the BBC will never tell you, they will just say 'things are very patchy' like they always do.

Ahh thats an interesting and almost cryptic answer..

I was prompted to raise my point due to the fact that everybody seems to be talking about an imminent houseing crash...

Do you have thoughts on housing crash?

Thats rather bad news..if we are.

I most certainly would not like to be involved if my house crashed, although it is pretty stationary most of the time so it seems unlikely.

X-No-Archive: yes

They will crash by 72% on 22nd August at 2.07pm.

What if it were a house of cards, though? If you put your house of cards on the table it might well crash, unless it was a very solid table ... but if you live in a glass house of cards you should probably be under the table, just in case someone starts throwing stones ... then again, if the table is a man of straw built on shifting sand ...

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... what was the question again? Oh yes ... are we heading for recession? Or receding from our destination? (I always wondered how you could have a terminal room half way down a corridor ...) Personally I think the nearer your destination the more you're slip-sliding away.

Drat, I am buying a house on that date at 2.06PM.

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The amount of consumer debt in the UK is frightening. The manufacturing sector has virtually disappeared and the service sector - white collar service sector - is being shipped off to India en masse. That leaves the blue collar service sector - plumbers, sparkies, kitchen fitters, etc - and those people are predominantly dependent upon the white collar service sector... so they should rellocate to Bombay!

Ho Ho Ho Ho .....at least its nice to see the sense of humour is working in fine shape :)

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Yes Respected Mr. John Smith, pehaps we don't like it so much now that we see jobs actually being exported, most of the time, we are exporting more than we import, although I'm not so sure with india..I have a feeling that the figures are not far off.

It is globalisation that allows us to sell our highly competitive and cheap product on the indian market, so therefore they are now allowed to export their goods and services to us.

Whats source for the goose is sauce for the gander, but, if you wish to emigrate to india to try to find a job you will find that between december and february have the nicest weather :)

See you in bombay!

Preferable to the bitter.....

One of your better outpourings.

If your house (or any nice, fully detached house) within a 50 mile proximity of Oxford does crash (in price) please do let me know. Now, if it's a glass house of cards built on shifting sands covering WMD crashes with another house.......

Stephen.

PS These house collisions.... Are they very frequent in the UK? My wife & I would like to return to the UK but these house crashes sound rather disconcerting and I have never seen the aftermath of such an accident.

Wow! Who are you, this thread is going from the sublime to the surreal!

:>At some stage Mr Blair will call for a referendum :>on joining the Euro

"You too can be like the Germans. Yes or no?"

Somehow I can't see Blair risking what political capital he has left on tilting at windmills.

FoFP

UK politicians have always enjoyed bashing the German economy, yet it always seems to deliver a better standard of living for the majority of its citizens than the UK does. Everyone I know who actually goes there comes back amazed at the cleanliness of the place, the quality of infrastructure etc etc. I suspect you're better off being unemployed in Germany than employed on the minimum wage in the UK...

KotF

Ohhh Helppp Helppp (Groans with agony) the corniness of it all..the corniness!

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And the extortionate price for a pint of beer.