Good news on trade
The latest CBI trade survey shows British exports rising strongly: the strongest rise in overall export orders for six years, non-EU orders rising at the fastest rate on record.
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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I used gold, but you can use what ever you want. And price everything in terms of your chosen comodity, at the rate you started. its very reveling if you can do it.
Take the news of the "Euro surge following 1st French round" - erm no actually all 3 currencys the pound the Euro and the Dollar had a bit of a bounce up, but the Euro went higher than the other two and then they all fell off again"
Just try it for one month, right currently gold is about £32 per gram
this is also not bad as it gets the old grey matter doing sums agian for a while.
so when you buy a sandwich and its priced at £2.99 just think thats 0.1g
and think in grams not pounds, do this for a month or so (you get used to it very quickly, kind of like how you get used to foreign currency when abroad for a week or so) but you do, and do it for 1 month and it tells you a lot.
Worth wile exercise for anyone to try
The figures which would allow a full answer to the question have not been published but I suspect that the increased exports are going to most of the countries of the world and it's probably going to enable a bit of both.