BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Apparently they are investigating a gap or weld in the rail that may have broken.

Apparently there are still conflicting reports, so we'll have to wait a while yet.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Apparently Carney wrote that speech himself.

He always comes across well.

I wish people had listened when he was Governor of the BOE during the Brexit years. Of course the response from certain quarters was sneering about project fear etc.

Hope people listen this time as its bigger.

 

[briantrumpet]

Safe haven? 🤔

 

[Pross]

Safe haven? 🤔

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I thought I read on here recently that Reeves had destroyed the gilt market (although I have to admit I really don't understand them despite having tried to read a bit about them).

 

[briantrumpet]

I thought I read on here recently that Reeves had destroyed the gilt market (although I have to admit I really don't understand them despite having tried to read a bit about them).

IIRC, that was @Dorset Boy

 

[briantrumpet]

Re the Spanish rail crash, info but thankfully no real speculation in this thread. It sounds like the forensic investigation will take a while.

https://bsky.app/profile/garethdennis.uk/post/3mcwf2334hk2y

This should be readable by non-Blueskyers:

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:tcrheqfd4rcjgmwnnd4i35xl/post/3mcwf2334hk2y

 

[Dorset Boy]

IIRC, that was @Dorset Boy

Nope, not me.
However her policies have at times caused spikes in the borrowing rates.
How could a chancellor destroy the gilt makets? The government need the gilt markets as that is the main way the borrow.

The gilt markets are the bond markets as far a government are concerned, and they can destroy the chancellor.

 

[briantrumpet]

Nope, not me.
However her policies have at times caused spikes in the borrowing rates.
How could a chancellor destroy the gilt makets? The government need the gilt markets as that is the main way the borrow.

The gilt markets are the bond markets as far a government are concerned, and they can destroy the chancellor.

Apologies... though I'm pretty sure you've highlighted temporary spikes, though not commented on the return to calm.

 

[Psamathe]

I thought I read on here recently that Reeves had destroyed the gilt market (although I have to admit I really don't understand them despite having tried to read a bit about them).

Whilst I don't know the Guilts market, I suspect that it's US actions that are dominating and impacting the world economy at the moment so maybe little to do with UK domestic situation.

 

[Dorset Boy]

They're an odd lot in Gloucestershire:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78v36g4pnno
Amazing this could occur, and awful, Hopefully a very long custodial sentence

 

[Pross]

They're an odd lot in Gloucestershire:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78v36g4pnno
Amazing this could occur, and awful, Hopefully a very long custodial sentence

I always liked Billy Idol but won’t listen to his stuff anymore after he did this.

 

[Pinno718]

I always liked Billy Idol but won’t listen to his stuff anymore after he did this.

It took me a while but I got there.

 

[Pblakeney]

I think Zelensky just learned another thing that the Swiss share with Germany, their lack sense of humour. 😂