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Subject: The equivalent British figure is about three.

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Ed Harris (London)

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Date Posted: 18:04:55 01/18/05 Tue
In reply to: Frank (US) 's message, "8.6 million actually" on 17:37:55 01/18/05 Tue

Well, this is an exaggeration, but we still have a labour shortage, which is more than can be said for most other post-industrial economies. Mind you, the government is doing its best to wreck this by regulating companies out of business and borrowing more and more during a phase of the economic cycle when it should be borrowing less. I think perhaps Mr Brown should be moved to the FCO - at least then he might get to hear about the Commonwealth, whose existence seems to be a closed book to him.

Also, where did the figure come from that Britain's economy will be larger than Germany's by 2010? I know that we've been doing well for the last ten years or so, but back in the 90s Germany's economy was 4 times bigger than ours, so this end-of-the-decade prediction seems a bit far-fetched.

Lastly, an FC space programme sounds rather fun. There has already been a great deal of co-operation between the UK and Australia, and most of our satellites were launched from NZ, I believe, especially the ones which we don't officially have. Besides, it's not right having all these foreigners hurtling round up there... bound to cause trouble.

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Dave (UK)
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Date Posted: 20:28:43 01/18/05 Tue

Unless Gordon Brown's socialist revival turns thing pear-shaped.

With regard to space, there were pictures circulating in the 1970s of Astronauts exploring the cosmos with handle-bar moustaches, such was the optimism for Britain's space programme, and indeed Commonwealth space exploration.

Tony Benn of course cancelled the Blue Streak programme and handed our lead to the French.

And on the EU..

Government Ministers have today admitted that the EU constitution refurendum could cost the taxpayer 80 Million pounds. However, this figure will not include the vast amount of Government propaganda aimed at winning it.

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