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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...s-7706930.html

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"Basil Jet" wrote in message
...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...s-7706930.html

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions, not the
sponsor's intentions)

tim

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"tim...." wrote in message
...

"Basil Jet" wrote in message
...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...s-7706930.html

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions, not
the sponsor's intentions)

Testing starts on mayoral election day. Surely a complete coincidence?

Paul S

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On Thu, 3 May 2012 10:11:34 +0100, Paul Scott wrote:
"tim...." wrote in message
...

"Basil Jet" wrote in message
...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...s-7706930.html

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions, not
the sponsor's intentions)

Testing starts on mayoral election day. Surely a complete coincidence?

There have been gondolas on the cables since at least April 21st:
http://www.greenwich.co.uk/daily-pho...ve-the-thames/

It seems the only coincidence is The Standard reporting it.

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On May 3, 9:54*am, "tim...." wrote:
"Basil Jet" wrote in message

...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...-dome-londons-...

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! *(As in people's opinions, not the
sponsor's intentions)

My thoughts exactly: The UK no longer makes goods that anyone wants
to buy. HMG missed the golden opportunity offered by docklands.

The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

But, never mind, Carnival attractions (Ferris wheel, Cable car ride)
are sprouting around London.

Remember, in their time, Iraq, Iran, Greece, and Rome have all ruled
the world. The latter ended with cries for bread and circuses.

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On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
77002 wrote:
The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the financial
services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we
still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced.

B2003

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On May 3, 12:44*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT)

77002 wrote:
The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the financial
services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we
still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced.

No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction
center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). This is businesss
the UK can hardly afford to lose.

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On May 3, 12:38*pm, 77002 wrote:
On May 3, 9:54*am, "tim...." wrote: "Basil Jet" wrote in message

.. .

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...-dome-londons-....

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! *(As in people's opinions, not the
sponsor's intentions)

My thoughts exactly: *The UK no longer makes goods that anyone wants
to buy. *HMG missed the golden opportunity offered by docklands.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufac...United_Kingdom,
"In June 2010 British Manufacturing accounted for 8.2% of the
workforce and 12% of the national output."

Robin

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On Thu, 3 May 2012 05:02:57 -0700 (PDT)
77002 wrote:
On May 3, 12:44=A0pm, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT)

77002 wrote:
The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the finan=
cial
services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we
still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced.

No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction
center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). This is businesss
the UK can hardly afford to lose.

If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A few
thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.

B2003

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On 03/05/2012 13:48, bob wrote:
On May 3, 12:38 pm, wrote:
On May 3, 9:54 am, wrote: "Basil wrote in message

...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...-dome-londons-...

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions, not the
sponsor's intentions)

My thoughts exactly: The UK no longer makes goods that anyone wants
to buy. HMG missed the golden opportunity offered by docklands.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufac...United_Kingdom,
"In June 2010 British Manufacturing accounted for 8.2% of the
workforce and 12% of the national output."


I'm intrigued to know what "golden" opportunity HMG missed in Docklands.


--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

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On 2012\05\03 09:54, tim.... wrote:
"Basil wrote in message
...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...s-7706930.html

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions, not the
sponsor's intentions)

It's public transport, licensed by TfL. Addison Lee will order its
drivers to throw grapple hooks up to the cable, in order to create a
level playing field.

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In message , at 14:39:37 on Thu, 3 May
2012, Graeme Wall remarked:
Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions, not the
sponsor's intentions)

My thoughts exactly: The UK no longer makes goods that anyone wants
to buy. HMG missed the golden opportunity offered by docklands.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufac...United_Kingdom,
"In June 2010 British Manufacturing accounted for 8.2% of the
workforce and 12% of the national output."

I'm intrigued to know what "golden" opportunity HMG missed in
Docklands.

Disneyland Essex?
--
Roland Perry

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On 03/05/2012 15:11, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:39:37 on Thu, 3 May
2012, Graeme Wall remarked:
Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions,
not the
sponsor's intentions)

My thoughts exactly: The UK no longer makes goods that anyone wants
to buy. HMG missed the golden opportunity offered by docklands.

According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufac...United_Kingdom,
"In June 2010 British Manufacturing accounted for 8.2% of the
workforce and 12% of the national output."

I'm intrigued to know what "golden" opportunity HMG missed in Docklands.

Disneyland Essex?

Isn't that just up the road in the Lea Valley?

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

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On May 3, 2:00*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 05:02:57 -0700 (PDT)





77002 wrote:
On May 3, 12:44=A0pm, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT)

77002 wrote:
The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the finan=
cial
services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we
still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced.

No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction
center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). *This is businesss
the UK can hardly afford to lose.

If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A few
thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.

Sort of: to hell with the foreign currency reserves and balance of
payents benefit.

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On May 3, 1:48*pm, bob wrote:
On May 3, 12:38*pm, 77002 wrote:

On May 3, 9:54*am, "tim...." wrote: "Basil Jet" wrote in message

.. .

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...-dome-londons-...

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! *(As in people's opinions, not the
sponsor's intentions)

My thoughts exactly: *The UK no longer makes goods that anyone wants
to buy. *HMG missed the golden opportunity offered by docklands.

According tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_Kingdom,
"In June 2010 British Manufacturing accounted for 8.2% of the
workforce and 12% of the national output."

So not down much compared with June 1910, :-)

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"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 3 May 2012 10:11:34 +0100, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

"tim...." wrote in message
...

"Basil Jet" wrote in message
...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...s-7706930.html

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions, not
the sponsor's intentions)

Neither. You misspelt "monstrous waste of money".

That rather depends whether it turns a profit or not

(which itself depends upon what it is)

tim

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On 03/05/2012 14:00, d wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 05:02:57 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
On May 3, 12:44=A0pm, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT)

wrote:
The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the finan=
cial
services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we
still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced.

No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction
center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). This is businesss
the UK can hardly afford to lose.

If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A few
thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.

In the bigger picture, every industry is chickenfeed. A billion Chinamen
might consider the entire UK population to be pretty negligible in the
grand scheme of things.

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

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On 03/05/2012 11:38, 77002 wrote:
On May 3, 9:54 am, wrote:
"Basil wrote in message

...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...-dome-londons-...

So, what is it then:

Public transport, or a fair-ground ride! (As in people's opinions, not the
sponsor's intentions)

My thoughts exactly: The UK no longer makes goods that anyone wants
to buy.

Best tell that to companies like Rolls Royce (no, they don't make posh
cars).


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

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On Fri, 04 May 2012 00:12:04 +0100, Arthur Figgis
wrote:

On 03/05/2012 14:00, d wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 05:02:57 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
On May 3, 12:44=A0pm, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT)

wrote:
The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the finan=
cial
services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we
still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced.

No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction
center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). This is businesss
the UK can hardly afford to lose.

If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A few
thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.

In the bigger picture, every industry is chickenfeed. A billion Chinamen
might consider the entire UK population to be pretty negligible in the
grand scheme of things.

gulp Chinamen?

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On Thursday, May 3, 2012 9:32:44 AM UTC+1, Basil Jet wrote:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/l...s-7706930.html

I wouldn't want to test them. I have seen too many James Bond films.

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On May 4, 1:19*am, Nobody wrote:
On Fri, 04 May 2012 00:12:04 +0100, Arthur Figgis





wrote:
On 03/05/2012 14:00, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 05:02:57 -0700 (PDT)
*wrote:
On May 3, 12:44=A0pm, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT)

*wrote:
The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the finan=
cial
services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we
still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced.

No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction
center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). *This is businesss
the UK can hardly afford to lose.

If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A few
thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.

In the bigger picture, every industry is chickenfeed. A billion Chinamen
might consider the entire UK population to be pretty negligible in the
grand scheme of things.

gulp Chinamen?

Even before "political correctness" that was low.

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On Thu, 3 May 2012 08:57:14 -0700 (PDT)
e27002 wrote:
If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A fe=
w
thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.

Sort of: to hell with the foreign currency reserves and balance of
payents benefit.

There are 3 ways a private company or corporation contributes to a state:

1) The goods and services it buys or sells.
2) The tax it pays
3) The jobs it creates

For investment banking 3 is negligable, 2 is probably a lot less than it could
be and 1 , while useful , is hardly the pivot on which the whole economy turns.
The usefulness of The City in this country is vastly overstated.

B2003

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On May 4, 10:02*am, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 08:57:14 -0700 (PDT)

e27002 wrote:
If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A fe=
w
thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.

Sort of: to hell with the foreign currency reserves and balance of
payents benefit.

There are 3 ways a private company or corporation contributes to a state:

1) The goods and services it buys or sells.
2) The tax it pays
3) The jobs it creates

For investment banking 3 is negligable, 2 is probably a lot less than it could
be and 1 , while useful , is hardly the pivot on which the whole economy turns.
The usefulness of The City in this country is vastly overstated.

So there is now a way to import oil purchased with pounds sterling?

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On Fri, 4 May 2012 06:26:17 -0700 (PDT)
77002 wrote:
For investment banking 3 is negligable, 2 is probably a lot less than it =
could
be and 1 , while useful , is hardly the pivot on which the whole economy =
turns.
The usefulness of The City in this country is vastly overstated.

So there is now a way to import oil purchased with pounds sterling?

Wtf has that got to do with investment banking other than them buying oil
as a hedge? They don't control the currency markets, they play them.

Without a lot of those parasite speculators the price of oil could be
significantly lower. There has been many a time when literally tanker loads of
oil have been sitting off the coast waiting for the price to go up so it can
be sold at a large profit.

B2003

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On May 4, 3:17*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2012 06:26:17 -0700 (PDT)

77002 wrote:
For investment banking 3 is negligable, 2 is probably a lot less than it =
could
be and 1 , while useful , is hardly the pivot on which the whole economy =
turns.
The usefulness of The City in this country is vastly overstated.

So there is now a way to import oil purchased with pounds sterling?

Wtf has that got to do with investment banking other than them buying oil
as a hedge? They don't control the currency markets, they play them.

Without a lot of those parasite speculators the price of oil could be
significantly lower. There has been many a time when literally tanker loads of
oil have been sitting off the coast waiting for the price to go up so it can
be sold at a large profit.

The point is that the UK needs foreign currency reserves. That means
exports. The UK's best performing exports are financial services.

Frankfort, Singapore, or Hong Kong would love to fill London's role,
and easily could.

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On Fri, 4 May 2012 07:25:43 -0700 (PDT), 77002 wrote
in misc.transport.urban-transit:

On May 4, 3:17*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2012 06:26:17 -0700 (PDT)

77002 wrote:
For investment banking 3 is negligable, 2 is probably a lot less than it =
could
be and 1 , while useful , is hardly the pivot on which the whole economy =
turns.
The usefulness of The City in this country is vastly overstated.

So there is now a way to import oil purchased with pounds sterling?

Wtf has that got to do with investment banking other than them buying oil
as a hedge? They don't control the currency markets, they play them.

Without a lot of those parasite speculators the price of oil could be
significantly lower. There has been many a time when literally tanker loads of
oil have been sitting off the coast waiting for the price to go up so it can
be sold at a large profit.

The point is that the UK needs foreign currency reserves. That means
exports. The UK's best performing exports are financial services.

Frankfort, Singapore, or Hong Kong would love to fill London's role,
and easily could.

London and New York seem to have the lock on it for the foreseeable
future.

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On Thu, 3 May 2012 22:30:11 -0700 (PDT), e27002
wrote:

On May 4, 1:19*am, Nobody wrote:
On Fri, 04 May 2012 00:12:04 +0100, Arthur Figgis





wrote:
On 03/05/2012 14:00, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 05:02:57 -0700 (PDT)
*wrote:
On May 3, 12:44=A0pm, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT)

*wrote:
The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are
about to impose taxes on it.

For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the finan=
cial
services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we
still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced.

No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction
center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). *This is businesss
the UK can hardly afford to lose.

If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A few
thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.

In the bigger picture, every industry is chickenfeed. A billion Chinamen
might consider the entire UK population to be pretty negligible in the
grand scheme of things.

gulp Chinamen?

Even before "political correctness" that was low.

Xie xie... I can safely go back to my chop suey and chow mein now. I
thought I wuz being overly sensitive.