SteveJ
As I said bobbleoff, I am just learning about this myself and I had no idea how banks worked until a recently. Since my numbers oversimplify the situation I am keen to hear from people like you (who clearly know more than me otherwise you wouldn't be correcting me) how we should be interpreting the numbers. Also, are you saying that the £130 billion figure stated by the Office for National ...
Yes, why not sell off our land when land prices are at an all time low? What incompetent prat came up with this idea, and which member of the house of Lords will be buying up this cheap land?
Yes I had thought of the PO and NS&I fronterman. According to wikipedia Lloyds banking group have £1 trillion in 'assets' and £50 billion in equity. As all bookkeepers and accountants know (and people that read about it like me), 'assets' include money that is owed to the business and so this £1 trillion in 'assets' for Lloyds consists of loans made to Mr and Mrs No-Job-And-Broke to buy their ...
It is still not acceptable to scratch someone's car even if it is parked illegally. Could it have been an accident truckerash from someone trying to squeeze by?
Dawlish has contributed £312 million so far to the bailout of the banks according to the ONS: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/crbslbg0111.pdf Here is why: UK public sector debt liability excluding banks is £890 billion. The Northern Rock liability is £130 billion whilst RBS and Lloyds (which includes Halifax) is £1300 billion! So the public sector debt due to banks alone is around £24,000 ...
Thanks PJD. Here is also a link from the BBC website for those who are interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-12278658
Yes, that's bad. Do you know what happened PJD?
Sorry, that was slightly off topic from the original post. I had another point and that was that councils tend to take advantage of fines in order to improve revenue when times get tough. So we need to be on our guards. In fact, the cost of implementing the speeding cameras in 1992 was recovered through the fines imposed on speeding drivers.
Here are some interesting statistics: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1208 The number of deaths each year on UK roads reduced from over 7,000 in 1967 to just over 3,000 in 1992. Since then the number of deaths has been pretty much the same apart from a small decline in 2005. Speed cameras were introduced in the UK in 1992. Therefore, the thing that had the most impact on reducing ...
Please can we get rid of Harrisons Amusement Arcade and all the tacky outlets down that side of the town?
