Is that "uniquely well placed" like the underdog in a Disney family matinee? or "uniquely well placed" like Eddie the Eagle in a stoic, British battler kind of way? or is it "uniquely well placed" like as in f***ed?
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Unique in that only the current goverment can actually say that as if they mean it.
From that graph, I assume we're all in debt to Norway 🙂
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From that graph, I assume we're all in debt to Norway
[url= http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya ]Forget Norway![/url]
smug bastard norwegians.
Does it really matter though?
course it does. Im fed up to the back teeth with these norwegians, flouncing around with all their GDPs and waving their Sovereign Wealth Fund in our faces.
b'stards.
Another nice pretty blue graph :
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Much to be said for coming last (ooh, missus) - at least we'll be well placed for The Rapture...
[i]"So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen."[/i] Matthew 20:16 😈
If only our oil reserves hadn't been sold off by someone - we could all be millionaires 😉
The British - failed Scandinavians. 😀
Right, this offends you on a personal level? I'm willing to bet the Swedes hate them more than you do....
It's like a fiscal "International It's a Knockout". If you listen carefully you can hear the maniacal laughter of Stuart Hall...
If only we hadnt given up our Empire.
Maybe the economic slowdown will actually be a sudden economic emergency stop, so all the people on the top of the graph go through the economic windscreen. We're best placed to avoid that, and will just en up in the economic footwell.
I read the graph as a visual representation of our great national resolve. Only we, the British, have the necessary strength to shoulder a giant diving board tower - from the top of which the Norwegians are about to leap, in a fit of opulent despair.
I thought you were referring to Alvin Hall for a minute there...
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He'd fix it!
Ernie, does that include the off the books PFI debt?
Alvin Hall would be able to fix it if the deficit turned out to be a cupboard full of kitten heeled slippers worn only once and bought on a credit card...
are you casting aspersions about our former chancellor nick? for shame.
Under the desk...A new pair everyday...Everytime he does that slack jaw thing, he's thinking of those fluffy pink ones with the sequinned heels
You know what we should do? Just print more money & use that!
Oh, hang on......
If you listen carefully you can hear the maniacal laughter of Stuart Hall...
Please don't say that - I work for his son....
fatcha did it
we have no manufacturing base left, just this rollercoaster financial services economy
so now, thanks to the iron lady and her legacy we are uniquely placed as the slow kid of europe
pretty soon the postal service will have been done over too, before you know it [url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8340561.stm ]train tickets will be £1000 a pop[/url]
wonder how much it will cost to post a letter cornwall to scotland once mandy has had his way
and just imagine what will happen to the economy once the slow kid of bullingdon is chancellor aaaggghhhhhhhhh!
thank **** i live in Norway
[url= http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2009/06/gordons-10-worst-financial-gaffs.html ]Ten of the best[/url] decisions from the Dear Leader