Posts Tagged ‘UK’
House swap holidays – swap your home in the UK for a great holiday
| Wisdom | February 3, 2010
38 views In these more frugal times, holidays can often go by the way side, money has to go on other things. But there is a growing area of the holiday market, house swapping, people do it across the world, but it can be complicated, swapping homes, insurances, cars and all sorts of others things (ouch my head hurts!) However I noticed a new site Simply House Swap , which is UK based and helps mak...
The true cost of the economic crisis
| Economics & Money | October 29, 2009
13 views A business I worked for up until August has gone into administration. The downturn seemed to hit them hard and cashflow became a problem. Credit streams were harder to access and the tax man came knocking; and from a highly visible and successful company with a multi million pound turnover to administration in a few months.
Although they had already begun to make redundancies the process...
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Parliamentary expenses, New Puritans & blame.
| Featured Articles, News, Politics | May 14, 2009
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Norman Baker started it and perhaps he’ll finish it as it is revealeded he charged the tax payer £20,000 for an office in his own home.
The lack of integrity is incredible amongst UK MPs, they all cry the letter of the law and ignore the spirit of the law, as someone who is interested in politics, I am disheartened.
So the blame game continues, and new puritanism gains some...
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The Economy : Is my job safe
| Politics | October 28, 2008
138 views The conversation has changed since I wrote about the two people on the train who were not even aware of the “credit crunch”. No longer are people unaware, they are asking each other “is your job safe”, and “what sort of mortgage have you got”.
Where we didn’t even understand why these things were happening, now we are asking why we can’t st...
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The Economy : “I’m not interested in politics”
| Politics | September 30, 2008
29 views This is not just the biggest economic meltdown of modern times, but also a political one. So there am I on the train into work and this couple opposite me are chatting and the guy sees a page on my paper, he says to the woman “I am not political” but are you aware of whats happening in America with the shares falling and so on.
Firstly why did he need to make the claim he...
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