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I'm not sure a victory for OBama is anything to celebrate, not yet anyway. He's a Democrat like Clinton who some consider to be responsible for the subprime mortgage crisis.
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and there was me thinking you were worldly wise, Lewis Hamilton is the new BRITISH F1 CHAMPION...yeh!!!!!! so come on lets be positive for a change, i know it is not part of your psychi but go on give it a go....I am sure you can do it.
We really are in dire straights when all there is to be positive about is the fact that the guy who can go round and round in circles in a car quickest happens to be a British tax exile.
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Generally my outlook for this country is gloomy but generally it doesn't bother me much because it doesn't bother most people. Now the economic outlook is gloomy, very gloomy and it does bother me because it is bothering a lot of people right now and will bother many more before things turn around.
Hundreds of thousands of people will loose their jobs and their homes, tax deposits are plummeting and benefit claims will be soaring. Our countries wealth has been squandered, the pension fund has been plundered, personal pension funds have been decimated and there's no recovery looming on the horizon...oh and we're up to our eyeballs in debt, then there's the small matter of the nations youf going round stabbing each other.
No amount of whistling 'always look on the bright side of life' can change that. If you want some positive spin it's that Bush is on the way out although sadly he and Blair probably wont be tried for war crimes.
I see nothing else positive about the up coming US elections, there's a choice between a huge unknown and an old guy who's in poor health and if he dies he'll be replaced by a vindictive looney creationist bint. Look to the west and you'll see a huge dark cloud hanging in the air about 3000 miles away and as ever it will be coming in our direction.
sorry Roger I listen to the great man himself, but missed it.
Chris,
Why are you so interested like WWW in patronising the viewers to this forum. The reality is that you would have to have your head buried near the centre of the universe not to realise there economic problems out there...but then again you did not know who lewis is, so you are probably living in warmer climes.
What is your connection with aviation, do you work in the industry???
You seem to be very negative about everything which is quite sad, but hey ho...
as for our tory friend lastman do you not remember thatcher
as for our tory friend lastman do you not remember thatcher
You obviously dont, she was the best thing to happen to this country in decades. She broke the back of the unions that were making our economy stagnate and helped get the country out of billions of dollars worth of Labour debt. But hey ho, the people that cant be arsed reading a manifesto are aloud to vote and so Labour and its army of stabbing chav followers get back in power and screw it all up again......and the cycle continues......
The difference this time will be that clueless Cameron has got no idea what he's doing and less charisma than last weeks road kill. We need another Iron Lady/Gentleman to take the reigns, tell Europe where to go swivel, kick the Beurocrats back to Brussels, slap the chavs in to the low income void left by the euro migration boom and get this country back on its own two feet.
Bia, You might see it as patronising, I see it as trying to point out the futility in giving the example of a British guy driving a racing car as something to be positive about. It's a bit like falling in a cess-pit then finding some toilet paper.
I doubt the family who loose their house, the bloke who has to work until he's 80 or the guy who is made redundant will actually give a monkey's about what a ex-British tax exile gets up to. It's rather crass don't you think.
You say i'm negative about everything yet if you look at the majority of my posts i've always tried to put a positive spin on the reality we are all facing.
We need another Iron Lady/Gentleman to take the reigns, tell Europe where to go swivel, kick the Beurocrats back to Brussels, slap the chavs in to the low income void left by the euro migration boom and get this country back on its own two feet.
What we need is a dusty old bald bloke in a moth eaten taylored suit who spends his evenings reading the financial times sat in a well worn chesterfield chair in his gentlemans club while sipping on a cognac...preferably smoking a pipe.
Oh yes, of course. It's annoying really, these pesky airlines just don't want to be talked down by people who obviously know better than they do that they should be going bust.
Ryanair's October figures 18% up on the year before, load factors the same. Ryanair.com
Load factors and revenue are irrelevant - costs and cashflow are king.
Their own headline on their results was "Ryanair Half Year Profit Falls 47% To €215m" - the margin fell from 26% to 12%, and p9 of the presentation states "pay freeze and redundancies implemented".
There's nothing like a taking choice phrases from an investor presentation now, is there, Alex?
The reality is that Ryanair are strong, will probably continue to grow, and you may have a chance to get experience there. However, they are a business, not a charity, and you enter that business with full awareness of how they run their operations.
Reading the metro today, O 'leary still boldly stating that by christmas there will only be Ryanair, BA, Lufthansa and Virgin left. What a complete and utter
Does he really think that people are going to read that and only book with Ryanair for low cost flights?
Reading the metro today, O 'leary still boldly stating that by christmas there will only be Ryanair, BA, Lufthansa and Virgin left. What a complete and utter
Does he really think that people are going to read that and only book with Ryanair for low cost flights?
I know but you've got to love his humour. Am already looking forward to his next statement he cracks me up.
At the end of the day when you add the hotel and spending money to your £5 flight that weekend break still looks expensive these days.
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