The inexorable rise in prices of EVERYTHING .

[Hilly]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't - lots of armchair experts around!

Your right , hindsight is a wonderfull thing but I do wonder that really they knew it wouldn’t be needed and was a scare tatic .

 

[Highland Mule]

Your right , hindsight is a wonderfull thing but I do wonder that really they knew it wouldn’t be needed and was a scare tatic .

Who says the scare tactic wasn’t needed? If public behaviour was the reason that it wasn’t used, then maybe it was.

 

[Hilly]

Who says the scare tactic wasn’t needed? If public behaviour was the reason that it wasn’t used, then maybe it was.

Maybe, just wondering that’s all .

 

[Highland Mule]

Maybe, just wondering that’s all .

There’s better skilled and knowledgeable people than you and I that helped make the decisions, that’s for sure.

I’ve written elsewhere that I’ve had dinner with a former government chief scientific advisor and they really are smart brains. To suggest that Boris and Co are bullying them into following some party line without any underlying justification is laughable.

 

[Hilly]

There’s better skilled and knowledgeable people than you and I that helped make the decisions, that’s for sure.

I’ve written elsewhere that I’ve had dinner with a former government chief scientific advisor and they really are smart brains. To suggest that Boris and Co are bullying them into following some party line without any underlying justification is laughable.

I did not suggest anything

 

[SilliamWhale]

Has it been a while since you went to the Highlands? I haven’t spent more that £100 cash total in the last year. Don’t know anywhere without a card machine - including those little burger vans parked in the lay-bys.

You clearly haven't had any scaffolding done recently!!

 

[SilliamWhale]

There’s better skilled and knowledgeable people than you and I that helped make the decisions, that’s for sure.

I’ve written elsewhere that I’ve had dinner with a former government chief scientific advisor and they really are smart brains. To suggest that Boris and Co are bullying them into following some party line without any underlying justification is laughable.

Health advisors tend to look at one aspect of it. People like Sunetra Gupta have been constantly saying look at the costs of lockdown vs the benefits and everyone made out she was some kind of witch! It was crazy.

And now we've broken the taboo of lockdown you will see it used as a tool more often. For a very unprovable benefit.

 

[Highland Mule]

I did not suggest anything

Not you, sorry if it came across like that.

 

[Highland Mule]

You clearly haven't had any scaffolding done recently!!

Local scaffold company are part of a plant hire, and that part definitely takes payment by bank transfer.

 

[Highland Mule]

Health advisors tend to look at one aspect of it. People like Sunetra Gupta have been constantly saying look at the costs of lockdown vs the benefits and everyone made out she was some kind of witch! It was crazy

If you look at the Sage minutes you’ll see that all those conversations were had and that a full range of disciplines were involved in making the judgements, after considering all these aspects. I don’t know if Sunetra was involved directly, but others with similar opinions were and the minutes reflect that these factors were considered in the strategies.

 

[Pasty]

Apparently inflation is sitting around 1%. RBA are more than comfortable up to 3%

There is plenty more to come. Be in assets and unsecured debt. This will the 1970s all over again.

 

[SilliamWhale]

If you look at the Sage minutes you’ll see that all those conversations were had and that a full range of disciplines were involved in making the judgements, after considering all these aspects. I don’t know if Sunetra was involved directly, but others with similar opinions were and the minutes reflect that these factors were considered in the strategies.

So what? Why do you think SAGE is the only decision maker in this process?

So much stuff going on behind the scenes we don't get told. The whole situation was ridiculous

 

[kfpben]

So where do we reckon interest rates are going?
Bank have offered a fix on the farm business loan at 3.3%.
Currently paying 1.92% over base so 2.02% at the moment.

Stick or twist ?

 

[Highland Mule]

So what? Why do you think SAGE is the only decision maker in this process?

So much stuff going on behind the scenes we don't get told. The whole situation was ridiculous

I know they’re not - I was just pointing out that Sunetra wasn’t the lone voice in the wilderness that you implied, and that similar views fed into the ultimate decision making.

Frankly, I’m glad we don’t get told everything. 99.99% of the general public have not got the ability to assimilate all the information and the one thing you don’t want in a crisis is mixed messages from leadership.

 

[Highland Mule]

So where do we reckon interest rates are going?
Bank have offered a fix on the farm business loan at 3.3%.
Currently paying 1.92% over base so 2.02% at the moment.

Read something about Australia vowing not to put their rates up for two or three years. How long is the fix for? I’d not be tempted unless it was a long time as I can’t see them moving in the near future.

 

[kfpben]

Read something about Australia vowing not to put their rates up for two or three years. How long is the fix for? I’d not be tempted unless it was a long time as I can’t see them moving in the near future.

Might be a thick question, but how closely do the developed nations interest rates tend to track each other?

 

[Highland Mule]

Might be a thick question, but how closely do the developed nations interest rates tend to track each other?

No idea, sorry. A quick google would give an indication though.