Graeme wrote:

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"Basil Jet" wrote:

Graeme wrote:

There's been a certain amount of building and rebuilding since 1913...

Now would be a great time to extend the W&C, since the BOE vaults are
presumably empty.

What makes you think they are empty? The bankers (checks spelling) have to
keep their bonuses somewhere...

Presumably they, being on the spot, will know better than anyone what
dangerous places banks are to keep money, and will have used it to fill
their mattresses and wallpaper their seventh homes.
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