no comment.Excluding the one-off benefits of the Royal Mail pension assets transfer, government borrowing was up nearly 22% in the financial year to date compared to the same period last year.
agree. plenty of French in London these days and plenty who come here to set up up businesses cos there's far less red tape.Euler wrote:I see France is doing it's bit to lift inward investment to the Uk economy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19754016
Has anybody told them there is a Tunnel between us where people can quite easily commute to London or Paris in two hours?
i suspect that the contraction in economic activity is greater than the official GDP figures would have us believe.AA president Edmund King said: "A 10.6% fall in petrol sales this past quarter is a huge drop.
"While we welcome the fact that new cars have become more fuel-efficient, this goes nowhere near to accounting for the crash in demand over the past three months, and the past five years.
that is a pretty big decline in real pay....income per head, taking inflation into account, had fallen by more than 13% since the start of 2008.
In a blog posting, Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke said that more than half of visits to the company's website were by people checking prices.
The average annual earnings of full-time workers in the UK rose by 1.4% to £26,500 in the year to April 2012, less than the 3.5% rise in inflation.
that's the real problem (created by Labour). madness that a country pays it's state workers more than they can get in the private sector (and they have far more job security and guaranteed, taxpayer funded, indexed-linked pensions).The ONS survey found that the average weekly pay of staff in the public sector was still noticeably higher than for staff in private sector employment, despite the government pay freeze on most employees in the public sector.
