Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:47 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

I see the Queen is going to broadcast to the nation - that should help!!

I wonder if this will be another annus horribilis moment?

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:12 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

I wonder if this will be another annus horribilis moment?

These people are an irrelevance - the sooner the monarchy is disbanded the better

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:58 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

These people are an irrelevance - the sooner the monarchy is disbanded the better

We are in alignment after all, but no worries our AAA credit rating will see us through, won’t it?

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:01 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

These people are an irrelevance - the sooner the monarchy is disbanded the better

I would love for you to go to Catterick Garrison, stand in the mess hall, and say that.

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:20 pm  

IR80 wrote:

I would love for you to go to Catterick Garrison, stand in the mess hall, and say that.

And you question Corbyn not following social distancing when you suggest the above.

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:53 pm  

IR80 wrote:

I would love for you to go to Catterick Garrison, stand in the mess hall, and say that.

Why?

What are suggesting would become of him?

Do elaborate my friend

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:25 am  

Superblue wrote:

We are in alignment after all, but no worries our AAA credit rating will see us through, won’t it?

Our credit rating will have a very limited impact on the ability of the government to dispose of bonds at appropriate interest rates. I would suggest the UK is in a much better position now that it is out of the EU - if Italy or Spain collapse that will be the end of the EU. So the question is where is the money coming from to bail Italy out - they will not be in a position to raise bonds at anything like reasonable rates

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:19 am  

If our credit rating is not that important why did we endure austerity to ensure we kept out AAA rating according to Osborne. He failed it dropped and as now dropped again to AA-.

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:05 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

If our credit rating is not that important why did we endure austerity to ensure we kept out AAA rating according to Osborne. He failed it dropped and as now dropped again to AA-.

Has it impacted the governments ability to raise funds via the issuing of bonds? The rest is just a vanity issue - Osborne had a view on austerity that had little to do with maintaining the UK's credit rating more about responsible spending. Hammond's view on austerity was a completely different issue.

Re: coronavirus and sport ? : Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:16 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

Has it impacted the governments ability to raise funds via the issuing of bonds? The rest is just a vanity issue - Osborne had a view on austerity that had little to do with maintaining the UK's credit rating more about responsible spending. Hammond's view on austerity was a completely different issue.

Any reduction in the country's credit rating will increase the interest rates on the governments own borrowing - these were the words of the Troy government, when setting out the reasons for Austerity.
Are you now saying that maybe this wasn't the case ?