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	<title>Comments on: The British government: &#8216;We can&#8217;t know how bad it will get&#8217;</title>
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		<title>by: Prometheus</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/13/13009/the-british-government-we-cant-know-how-bad-it-will-get/#comment-20522</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 21:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Which word do you not understand Helen ?

Gordon says " No more boom and bust ! "

LOL

Just don't look at the mortgage lending figures released earlier today. First quarter lending the lowest on record since 1975 !]]></description>
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		<title>by: Ms Robinson</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/13/13009/the-british-government-we-cant-know-how-bad-it-will-get/#comment-20519</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[@Monkey: don't be too hard on them Monkey, they've been busy upclassifying Cannabis to Class B and increasing the number of days people can be interned for doing nothing...]]></description>
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		<title>by: KickYourReporters</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/13/13009/the-british-government-we-cant-know-how-bad-it-will-get/#comment-20516</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can someone kick your reporter who wrote the story on this in the main paper.... Ms Flint's notes clearly state "at best down 5-10%", whereas the FT is reporting govt expecting falls up to "10%".

Your guy has clearly got it wrong!]]></description>
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		<title>by: ss</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/13/13009/the-british-government-we-cant-know-how-bad-it-will-get/#comment-20515</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[well he didnt sell all the gold....yet]]></description>
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		<title>by: Ando</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prolonged boom during which neither the govt nor the people put anything aside for the inevitable tougher times ahead. As a country we're like the banker with the million pound bonus who, instead of buying a million pound house, put his bonus down as deposit on a £5 million house and got an interest only mortgage in the expectation of paying another mill off with next year's bonus. Meanwhile he blows salary on fine wines, a porsche and holidays rather than saving anything. All good until you lose your job or your bonus. Oops...]]></description>
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		<title>by: ss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh come on everybody - surely its all the fault of the rest of the world?]]></description>
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		<title>by: Ian</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The issue isn't that  the "Government" can't know how bad it will get.

The main problem is that they dont know how bad it already is!!!]]></description>
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		<title>by: Study War No More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No more boom and bust....

or maybe prolonged boom and the mother of all busts. We will see.]]></description>
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		<title>by: taxloss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There were supposed to be smug tags round the first one, and sad ones round the second...]]></description>
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		<title>by: taxloss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[*Aussie wife opens door to austalia for taxloss*  taxloss 
*Kevin Rudd & aussie labour party ruin Australia*  taxloss ]]></description>
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