Financial Times warning on UK economy

On Mon, 30 May 2005 19:38:20 +0200, abelard mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

OMG another listing.

That obviously explains the variations.

It was early so I'll let you off ;-)

Yes a billion.

At this point I will gracefully withdraw from billions and trillions.

Well forgetting trade, the additional cost of oil at $50 over $30 takes quite a lot of spending power out of the pockets of UK consumers and industry and puts it elsewhere. As you say it's about 0.5% based upon 539,000,000 barrels pa consumption.

"Tim" wrote

I don't think there are too many people spending 900 a year on electricity, to be honest.

Yeah, right - "The price of my house is 749,000, plus 400 for the cost of the wind turbine that still owes me money." I don't think so somehow.

On Mon, 30 May 2005 11:24:43 +0100, "John Redman" mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

It will all be the fault of the global economy.

Under last Labour Govt, we ended up being bailed out by IMF loans. Don't things will get that bad, but things are going to get a lot worse under this mob.

I think there's a good chance Torys will be grateful they didn't get in, they'd end up picking the pieces of Gormless Gordon

"John Redman" wrote

We do, and we've actually been thinking about getting a wind generator!

"John Redman" wrote

You're right - they'd just simply ask 749,500 -- without referring to the relevant proportions from the turbine & the rest of the house.