This is specifically for Marmora Man: I too was taught about the shortage of oak for building and re-fitting Royal Navy ships. However, this is not the full story. It seems that it was an artificial shortage created by a City of London cartel of timber merchants. "Unfortunately for St Vincent there was a "timber cartel" in existence made up of some six of the major timber merchants in England, their leaders were John Larking and John Bowsher. These timber merchants held out against the machinations of St Vincent and were content to trade elsewhere and bide their time. The emerging shortage of timber for repair created a crisis of which Lord Nelson became aware. Indeed the shipwright officers at Portsmouth Dockyard reported that the last supplies of timber were inadequate for repairing the ships which they had to hand." And a couple of references to follow up: Reference 1 Reference 2 Nothing much changes in the City. Personal profit before country.
> The 'enslavement' of the population is only theoretically possible if the average joe on the street takes out more in loans than they are capable of repaying based on future earnings. If this happened on a large scale, FRB would fail without the repayments and the banks would close. Better watch out for wage deflation then. If Singapore goes for the predicted 4% devaluation of the Singapore Dollar then it might get personal.
So easily mislead. The clique is merely a loose group of camp followers. You need to worry about the secret INNER CIRCLE. I have not yet identified all thirteen.
Foxtons is now in breach of its banking covenants. Anyone who uses Foxtons as an agent to manage their borrow-to-let property might consider reviewing the arrangement.
There are lots of photos of Jacqui Smith in the newspapers. She's still an attractive young woman. Not tacky at all. You should all just hope you look that good when you reach 58.
Wardy and neighbours, What did your families do on Boat Race day? What colour were your families: were they "light blue" or "dark blue", and what happened in mixed-colour households? Did you ever do the day-trip to the river? Regards, MacRoban