Gold

[darmstadt]

No, not Spandau Ballet! At least they have some and love this bit:

Germany has around eight times more gold than the UK, after Gordon Brown sold more than half of the UK's reserves between 1999 and 2002 when prices were at a 20-year low.
Analysts say gold could still hit $2000/oz this year, meaning the UK could have sold its gold for £16billion, as opposed to £2billion.

[AtW]

No, not Spandau Ballet!

Why bother when you can just print £50 bln?

[Doggy Styles]

Why bother when you can just print £50 bln?

Because then you'd only need to print £36 billion. Do keep up old chap.

[DodgyAgent]

No, not Spandau Ballet! At least they have some and love this bit:

They stole it in the first place so we might as well exercise our superior military might and help ourselves to it.

[darmstadt]

With our superior military might we can just go and help ourselves to their gold anyway

Ah,

[AtW]

Because then you'd only need to print £36 billion. Do keep up old chap.

You'd sell your gold first and then print money????

Might as well print all 50 bln and keep gold that will go up in price.

[DodgyAgent]

Ah,

Britain 2 germany 0. hardly tongue in cheek, plus a stack of military experience since.
Have you taken over from Joseph Goebbels by any chance?

[Robinho]

Gordon Brown actively tried to destroy this country. And in the process he gave the left the idiotic idea that the past 10+ years were sustainable and slackers who don't feel like contributing don't have to.

And as usual free-market capitalism gets the blame.

[AtW]

And as usual free-market capitalism gets the blame.

It was free market in action with banks doing what they wanted without any regard for the future - complete failure of regulation.

[Robinho]

It was free market in action

There's nothing free market about the government molesting the money supply and setting the interest rates.