Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Sorry for the tardy reply Fred/gf
Fred surely you mean 'Yes'. The first two sentences agree with my 'more borrowing and spending etc etc. and the following three sentences point out the under regulation from the regulators. Whose watch was it on?

gf re 'A lot of Tory propaganda about how it was all Labours fault'. So who exactly was responsible for leaving the government coffers empty, and even joked about it at the time? Either the gov. has control or it hasn't and Brown obviously didn't. Dear old Prudence didn't save for a rainy day.
It is historical fact that Tories replenish the coffers and Labour empty them, the problem this time is a deficit like no other.
2517

2517.

It is said "politics is the art of the possible".

In the "roaring period" of 2000-2007, it would probably been impossible to hold back the said "economy", a period of false growth, similar to the Heath period, when "property" "blocks of office etc., were built, not for sale, but as a gamble, awaiting the price of the property to inflate to higher levels before disposal or allowing borrowing against said values), or the "financial services".

Should labour have tried to block the inflationary lending (sub-prime mortgages) and crazy "derivative markets?

Yes, but would they have been able to bring in the effective curbs?

No.

The conservatives were crying for more deregulation, (and the con party was in hock to the city), the "CITY" were against necessary changes (for the new industry and another false god), the media and the public thought the good times would go on for ever and probably would have voted against regulation

Many in the Labour party and Lib/party were as deluded and the cons, but also "realised" or "thought" that if they did so, they would be ousted at the next election in that period.

It seemed, everybody was better off. (Standing back, to some of us, it looked crazy.)

-----------

However, if the Thatcher government, while in office, had serviced the infrastructure (schools, health services, railways, road, utilities) properly, and not squandered the processes of the country's silver, the bills may have been less and not left for the labour government who followed.


-------

From memory of various threads in this board, about 2 years before the "crash", many stated that they were getting out of "property" and even going for short term "renting", placing their stop losses forecasting choppy water and problem.


No party is innocent of all sins.

lets get facts right M KING WAS A PILLOCK AND GOT IT ALL WRONG HE WAS DISHONEST HE GAVE BILLIONS TO HBOS AND DID NOT TELL LLOY HOLDERS WHICH WAS ILLEGAL HE FCUKED UP BIG TIME .

and now because of is meddling without a brain
the bank can not put up interests without more problems
no one is saving because it is pointless .
pensions are for fools any one putting money into a pension fund is a
complete plonker

glad I never put my money in to a pension .
I retired at 53 now almost 66 and my cash is still growing
and can take it in cash when ever I want to pass it on with out paying tax
I will lose it all on the horses by the time I am 69 ???

If I neigh a little, will you put some money on me.

oh dear; do i perceive a little hypocricy about tax avoidance?

I don't disagree with much of post 26564 Fred. Thatcher selling off the silver to me had the benefit of raising funds from the sale, wider share ownership, but more importantly removing the huge cost of pension liabilities from the taxpayer.

T ---- I agree re pensions, always thought that cash ISA's were better (certainly for me) although the low interest rates have taken the edge off them, however higher rates will return at some point. With gilts returning low rates I imagine pension returns will come under even more pressure.
T ---if you follow my horse racing tips you could be broke at 67.
2517

T
i do hope you will not lose it all on the horses. really i do.
we have another poster here on this board who likes the horses also, he also is a t but
not capital, maybe the two of you might like to converse?
after all it is the name of the thread.
regards to you both
jkd

jkd,

I think you are being saucy!

http://screen.yahoo.com/boy-shares-stories-journey-heaven-131013761.html

The book has been on The New York Times bestsellers list for a year. It looks like the family made a heap of money out of the stories of a 3 1/2 year old. They love that sort of thing in the US.

Anyone know what has happened to this site http://www.upcomingdividends.co.uk/index.html it was working last week ?

Works for me.

jkd. some lose at the races some win its a way of passing on money the rich have been doing it for 500 years. they go to the races do not bet the father says he lost the son had a great day

Syrian rebels cut of soldiers heads on video to show the world what they are
rebels terrorists . and the uk is on about giving them weapons do they forget it
is illegal to arm terrorists . putin is at least honest about is beliefs

if the uk arm the terrorist rebels then the uk is a terrorist country.

Have you a subscription with them H/S, I had not but was allowed access for at least the last couple of weeks. I notice they mention a 7-day trial offer.

No, I am accessing it from a Nexus 7 tablet. Try clearing out all your cookies. They may track your usage.

26577 - get real! ...... neither side is remotely honest, whether the direct protagonists or their supporters ....... the russians want to keep a stranglehold on world gas supplies, so oppose the proposed pipeline that would break that ..... the others want the opposite

From midnight tonight Croatia joins the EU. The real question is why. They have 20% unemployment and are in a recession. They have any insecure borders with Serbia. They are NOT joining the Euro. They will be the 28th country in the EU. There are 17 countries in the Euro.

Croatia's finance minister said yesterday that he did not think that they were ready financially to join.

What do we want with another lame dog joining the EU? This smacks of the usual EU obsession with growth at any cost.

More votes for UKIP