A letter to Mr.Mervin King
A few weeks ago I wrote a letter to Mr. Mervin King the head of the Bank of England. To my surprise he asked his PA to respond to me, sorry for lack of funny, just shocked to recieve any reply at all -

Mr. King,

I would personally like to thank you and your fellow colleagues for taking a different approach to interest rates than our govt have to cutting the deficit. The last thing we need is a knee jerk reaction and an increase of interest rates at this stage. As you know this will discourage growth in our already shrinking economy.

From a personal view, a hike in interest rates would be a disaster, as I am on a variable interest mortgage, as are millions of other people who's money would be instantly taken out of the economy trying to pay their mortgages and survive.

I may be out of my depth knowledge wise here but I refer to the Laffer curve, which I am sure you are aware of, so next time you are in meetings with the govt, perhaps you can suggest to them dropping income tax down to a flat 15% across the board ( yes, even for you Mr. king), therefore increasing growth, raising inflation with interest rates rising as a consequence of growth. I'd be able to take the hit if I was earning a lot more. I understand this isn't your remit to comment on their policies here but they seem more out of their depth than even me.

If there is anything I have written that couldn't be implemented for sucess I would like to here about it.

Yours faithfully

bROKEN aRROW
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Dear Sir or Madam



Thank you for your email to the Governor, which he has seen and asked me to respond to. He asked me to thank you for your comments.



Regards

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Assistant Private Secretary to the Governor

Governor’s Office

Bank of England
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 11:25, 14 replies)

I want the address
to counter your points and see if I get the same stock reply letter :)
(waxdart hello., Fri 11 Feb 2011, 11:36, closed)

That would be interesting Wax :)
You could pretend that you are a disgruntled saver. Give it a go, I would be interested in the results!

Public general enquiries - [email protected]
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 11:40, closed)

.
The governor wishes to state that it is buried reasonably deep in his In-tray.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 11:43, closed)

Well...
Basically Merv (as I now call him) was thinking about raising them but after seeing my e-mail he U-turned, obviously, nothing to do with the fact it would have been disastrous for businesses and the economy -

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9495176
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 11:48, closed)

Absurdly yours is a book of letters to highup/famous people with absurd points and the author frequently
gets much too personal with the other person (well often theyre secretary. Some of the business/government ones are irish institutions but you'd still get a giggle out of them. There's plenty of letters to uk public figures so don't let that put you off.

www.blackwaterpress.com/title_detail.php?bookid=10

Off topic but a newsletter section where we (well rob or whoever writes the newslwetter) do this every would be week pretty cool
(tubeman trousers, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 11:55, closed)

Thanks!
I will check this out. The last one I read was a very funny letter sent to Richard Branson regarding one of his flights.

Also that idea would be grand, maybe e-mail Rob and see what he thinks. Or a new section could go up, people could have a lot of fun with that, perfect example was SLVA's letter to honda.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 12:09, closed)

If you like that sort of book
You have to read "The Timewaster letters" by Robin Cooper. He writes to everyone - publishers, public figures, law societies, trade magazines etc. purely for the purpose of wasting as much time and as many resources as humanly possible, often through the means of ludicrous inventions and ridiculous business proposals.
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 22:48, closed)

As
long as it's amusing as well, sounds good!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 9:36, closed)

Yep
His correspondance with Dorling Kindersley is amazing - he tries to get them to accept his (ludicrous) children's fiction and every time they show any interest in a particular story, he claims to have shredded it due to perfectionism. This goes on for about three months before they finally give up.
( MatJ LOOK, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 3:03, closed)

So, your story is, 'I once received a form letter'?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 13:46, closed)

That is yet to be established by Waxdart.....possibly
On stock letters, it doesn't usually say the person has asked them to respond.

And Badger, imma gona let you finish but Mike Woz here, definately has the best fail archive, on a serious note some of it is shocking and worth a read to anyone that hasn't seen it -

www.b3ta.com/users/profile.php?id=16234
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:01, closed)

I also wrote to him
Told him that his idea of talking the pound down wasn't constructive for companies like mine that import more than export. I got a personal, hand signed response, explaining his reasons for his statement, his thoughts, and wishing me success.

Impressed.

One day, I'll have my own fancy embossed letterheads and envelopes with "The Governor" on!
(randomstupidname would really like this signature field to be bigge, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 19:54, closed)

It's funny
because politicains have been known to describe the BOE as arrogant...The cheek of it! Still waiting for a reply from my local Tory MP (i didn't vote for him) on the tax breaks for corporate companies that are coming in. It's worth reading up on this, as the tories are stealthing it in without a debate.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 9:26, closed)

Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone?
Something D-O-O Economics.

Voodoo Economics.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA&t=0m38s
(TheJacksonSixth, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 23:43, closed)