Talk:Five economic tests
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Some cynics suggest that the five tests are really:
- Can the goverment win a referendum?
- Can the goverment win a referendum?
- Can the goverment win a referendum?
- Can the goverment win a referendum?
- Can the goverment win a referendum?
JS.Farrar 20:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
- Perhaps, but that counts as speculation, so is out of order. Unless someone really notable said it,like Mervyn King. --Red King 21:17, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
- I think perhaps we might comment that it is a commonly held belief both among politicians and the public that the tests are met or fail to be met principally on whether Gordon Brown wants that to be met. That is to say the tests have sufficient leeway that they can be met or failed largely by selective use of the same data. Alci12 11:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
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- Porvided that you add it under a heading such as "Press Comment", then yes. Wiki shouldn't speculate itself, but it can certainly report such speculation provided that it wasn't just some bloke down the pub! In this case, I suspect that it wouldn't be hard to find a source to cite if anyone wanted to challenge. --Red King 17:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Explaination
What is meant by the Treasury's answer to question 4; "The City would benefit from Eurozone membership." - what City is being refered to here? Is it London, and if so, wouldnt that mean that a potential decision would act in the interest of a specific regional group (ie, the city of London), potentially at the detriment of the UK as a whole? Or should "City" be merely read as "Nation"? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.7.210.43 (talk • contribs).
- "City" refers to the London Stock Exchange in this context, I believe; it was either that, or the inner city's vendors and businesses. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 19:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
According to The City
- "..."The City" is not just a common name for the City of London, but is also sometimes used as a for the financial entities based there, similar to the way "Wall Street" and "Bay Street" sometimes refer to U.S. and Canadian financial markets."
also see City of London --Skoorb 12:13, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
