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[le troubadour] 27/6/2008 23:30

Gordon Brown is an Embarrassment as they wanted, but The British ARE WAR-RIERS!

Let's Take the Control of our Financial Institutions Back to the People of the Country!

Before it is Too Late!

We can rely on the British Army after Afghanistan, and Iraq, of that I promise You!

They are well aware that The House Of Hannover, Saxe-Coberg-Gotha have no Legitimate Claim on the British Throne and that they have been sent to War to put them away from protecting their families here!

[le troubadour] 27/6/2008 23:24

Can We Find A Way with the Power of the Bri'Tish?

The Shear Power of The British People?

[maiseymouse] 17/5/2007 10:35

citi valuation has gone up

[maiseymouse] 09/5/2007 13:45

change of recommendation

[hectorp] 16/1/2007 18:21

Interest rates and inflation are simply returning to standard 20th Century levels.

PS Happy Birthday! to GREAT BRITAIN now diminutively referred to as the UK.
youa re 300 years old today,the Union of Scotland and ENgland, 16th January 1707.
-though the Government doesnt want to make a big thing of it ( there is to be a 2 pound coin). Being British is somehow embarrassing.
I am proud and British, not simply Scottish or English.

[jim_bently davis] 11/1/2007 11:13

lololololol you silly Brits are going to need to earn a loy more this year jy=ust to keep up!

Inflation is getting out of control and house prices(the backbone of the current fasle economy) are falling.

Negative equity here we come.

[jim_bently davis] 11/1/2007 09:51

Come to your friendly NHS hospitals to die.





The battle against the MRSA hospital superbug may never be won, health officials have admitted.

A leaked document sent to ministers reveals that a target of halving the number of MRSA cases is "unachievable".

The memo from the director of health protection at the Department of Health, Liz Woodeson, suggests ways of dropping the target set by John Reid when he was Health Secretary in 2004.

It said: "We have a three-year target to halve the number of MRSA bloodstream infections by April 2008.

"Although the numbers are coming down, we are not on course to hit that target and there is some doubt about whether it is in fact achievable.

"The opinion of DH infection experts is that we will succeed in reducing MRSA bloodstream infections by a third rather than half - and that, even if we had a longer period of time, it may not be possible to get it down to half."

The memo, seen by the Health Service Journal (HSJ), also discussed whether the target should be put back a year.

"We might still fail to achieve the target in 2009 because a certain level of MRSA is unavoidable and we don't really know what the level is," it said.

A Department of Health spokesman said of the memo: "We deplore this leak.

"This paper confirms that from the Prime Minister and Health Secretary downwards, the Government is determined that the NHS should get on top of the problem of MRSA and other infections.

"We have always been clear that infection control is a priority, which is why we have introduced a raft of measures to tackle all infections in our hospitals."

[jim_bently davis] 05/1/2007 09:05

Rule Britiania, Britania Rule the waves.

'Navy To Be Slashed To Cut Costs' Friday January 5, 08:38 AM

Navy bosses are said to be in uproar over reported plans to mothball nearly half of the Fleet and close a key port. Six warships - Cumberland, Chatham, Cornwall, Campbeltown, Southampton and Exeter - are considered to be under threat. According to the Daily Telegraph, cuts have been drawn up which are intended to slice £250m from the defence budget.

The paper has also claimed the Navy could lose one of its three aircraft carriers, Invincible, and that one of three major ports was under threat of closure - with Portsmouth the most vulnerable.

It quoted one senior officer as saying: "We are now no better than a coastal defence force or a fleet of dug-out canoes.

"The Dutch now have a better navy than us."

Last month, Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said 13 of the Royal Navy's 44 main vessels were already in a state of reduced readiness - known as mothballing - to save cash.

A decision to mothball the other ships would mean that almost half the Fleet would not be available.

The Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "We currently have no plans to cut ship numbers.

"We routinely review whether resources are allocated where our frontline forces need them most. No decisions have been taken in this case."

He pointed out that the MoD was building new destroyers, attack submarines, and support ships for the Royal Navy and planned to sign the production contract this year for two new aircraft carriers.

The spokesman branded reports that Portsmouth will close as "complete speculation", adding: "We are reviewing our bases, and have undertaken to make savings, but no decisions have been taken."

[jim_bently davis] 04/1/2007 12:19

Property price panic


The first signs of panic in the property market were reported today by a leading estate agent.

SELLING UP: Home owners are getting out before the market starts to fall

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Henry Pryor, founder of one of the UK's biggest property websites, says a rush of sellers among home owners who believe the boom has passed its peak is threatening to produce a glut that will push prices down.


'We may look back and say the fourth quarter of 2006 was the peak,' he told the Financial Times.


Pryor, whose website primemove.com has details of 800,000 homes for sale, said he first saw signs in November of people 'motivated by greed' selling and moving into their second homes or rented accommodation because they think prices are about to fall.



He predicted this would make the seasonal increase in the supply of homes for sale even more marked than usual. The result, he said, would be that deals done in the first half of 2007 would be 'at surprisingly lower prices'.

Pryror, said the FT has a record of correctly identifying the point at which property prices have begun to turn down after a boom.

Meanwhile a very different picture of the property market – particularly in London – was painted today by property consultancy King Sturge. It believes UK house price growth will moderate slightly to 7%, down from 10.5% last year. But predicts that London prices will grow by as much as 14% in prime locations.

Wealthy foreigners and City workers spending fat bonuses will fuel the increase at the top of the market, says King Sturge, which also predicts that investment returns from commercial property would far outstrip the 7.6% consensus estimate. It expects a return of more than 8% and says there is a good chance it might even top 10%.

[jim_bently davis] 31/12/2006 22:03

More from the RSB--- Really Stupid Brits.

Shot soldier contracts MRSA bug


A British soldier who was shot in Afghanistan contracted MRSA while he recovered at a Birmingham hospital.
Sgt David "Paddy" Caldwell, 32, was diagnosed with the superbug on a ward at Selly Oak Hospital, which treats injured service men and women.

It is understood Sgt Caldwell has since recovered from MRSA.

The paratrooper, from the 3rd Battalion of the British Regiment, was shot in the neck by machine gun fire in an attack against Taleban forces.

Cash to help

A spokeswoman from the Department of Health (DOH) said it was unable to comment on Sgt Caldwell's condition but said reports of MRSA were taken very seriously.

"In the new operating framework, the government has put aside £50m of capital which trusts can bid for to tackle MRSA.

"This means that £300,000 is available per trust. This money can be used for improving washing facilities and building better toilets."

MRSA is a common bacteria with a number of different strains that can cause a number of symptoms including redness and swelling at the site of infection.

It can be passed on by doctors and nurses if they do not wash their hands between seeing different patients. Dirty conditions in hospitals are also seen as an environment in which MRSA can thrive.

[growthhunter] 23/12/2006 18:12

at home........thought you were in italy

[jim_bently davis] 06/12/2006 16:48

SQUEEZE THEM, SQUASH THEM, BLEED THEM DRY, THEY ARE ONLY BRITISH CITIZENS AND THE BACKBONE OF THE COUNTRY----AND THEN SAID Mr BROWN WHY NOT, MY PENSION IS SAFE I HAVE PATHED A LIFE OF LUXURY FOR ME.

LET THE PLEBS BE THE PLEBS AND THE PATRICANS THE PATRICIANS WHO LEECH OFF THEM.


December 2006

In a major U-turn, the Chancellor will kill off tax relief enjoyed by some life insurance polices following the publication of the Pre-Budget Report.



TAX CRACKDOWN:

Chancellor Gordon Brown has stamped on the tax releif he granted in April


Pension Term Assurance (PTA) has enjoyed a renaissance since April, when it was unexpectedly granted greater flexibility that meant more people could take advantage of the pension style tax relief on contributions into a life insurance product.
But the Pre-Budget Report makes clear that any tax-privileged pension vehicle must be used to fund retirement.

The fine print of today's report states: 'The Government has become aware that, as a result of the flexibilities that the new pensions tax regime has brought in, life insurance policies that provide lump-sum death benefits alone are being offered as personal pension arrangements eligible for pensions tax relief.' This, said the report, undermined the principles behind the change.

A spokesmen for the Treasury was less ambiguous about the prospects of PTA. When asked if PTA would be unlikely to survive after the next Budget in April 2007, he said: 'That's what we're getting at, yes.'

PTA has proved popular because it can offer as much as 40% off life insurance premiums for higher-rate taxpayers and 22% off the premiums of basic rate taxpayers.

It's abolition would be a blow to insurers and financial advisers who have spent vast sums preparing for and marketing the newly popular product.

Jonathan French, a spokesman for the Association of British Insurers, said: 'Nothing has been decided yet and we will work with the Government to discuss any plans they may have.'

The Treasury said any change would not be applied retrospectively and that anyone who has bought PTA since April, or until a change is implemented, will not be pursued for unpaid tax.

Kevin Carr, senior technical adviser for protection broker Lifesearch, said: 'It's shocking that the Treasury is saying that they have become aware of this. These are their rules and the industry spent six months telling them what the implications of this would be. It is now impossible to confidently recommend anyone to take out this product and insurers themselves will probably have to stop selling PTA immediately.'

This latest volte face is reminiscent of last year's Pre-Budget Report when the Chancellor wrong-footed the industry over allowing residential property to be held within Self-Invested Personal Pensions.