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UK councils unable to pay staff wages

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    UK councils unable to pay staff wages

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...-collapse.html

    failed state

    #2
    Good from the inflation perspective though.

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      #3
      Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post
      Good from the inflation perspective though.
      Plus a significant proportion of them aren't worth paying anyway.
      ǝןqqıʍ

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        #4
        Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
        Plus a significant proportion of them aren't worth paying anyway.
        I thought this was now a dead duck of a story, as HM Gov. have said they'll bail 'em out, having seized £4 billion of Iceland's assets, etc.?

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          #5
          haha - socialists (council workers) are not happy to be capitalists when there is a downside - haha

          I am quite sure thoug that they are happy to accept the interest payments that they received from the bank.

          hypocrites
          "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

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            #6
            Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
            haha - socialists (council workers) are not happy to be capitalists when there is a downside - haha
            Socialists? You appear to be living in Liverpool in 1983. Tory pension-watchers is what they are these days.

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              #7
              I thought most of thast was their pension fund - wishful thinking I suppose, back to the grind............
              Who has time? Who has time? But then if we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

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                #8
                Let's hope they have to make staffing cuts.

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