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.

Why has Carney retreated from the 7% unemployment figure before raising interest rates?

Is it because he has realised those figures are falsified?

What is GDP now compared with 2008 and what should it have been if sensible policies had been implemented?

This government has been self serving and a disaster for the majority.

The only thing holding it up is that a large amount of the media is in cahoots with it and they are pulling one another's strings.

Also, they are hamstrung to parts of the "city".

the majority of "real people" are shown clearly to just shrug their shoulders

Carney only said that at 7% unemployment levels, he would consider raising interest rates. At the time he said that, he made it clear that it was just the start of a period where a rate rise would be considered. He has subsequently said that it would probably be at least a year away.

Yesterday was the Tuesday, the day before it was Monday.

He is as wobbly as Wavy Davey.

Are they his paymaster?

Yep spot on Fred, mind their is talk he will HAVE to raise just before the election(next spring) so that will be a downer for Sir Giddeon.

Just look at this and Cynic as the cheek to go on about the Unions funding labour..........

PATHETIC. Tory Sleaze.

Political Party Funding
Hedge funds, financiers and private equity make up 27% of Tory funding
comments by Nick Mathiason

Published in: Political Party Funding

Hedge funds, financiers and private equity firms contributed more than a quarter of all donations to the Conservative party in the past year.

The latest research from the Bureau has mapped for the first time precisely which business sectors contributed to the Tories in the year ending June 30.

Our trawl of 450 separate donations given to Conservative Central Office by individuals, companies and limited liability partnerships reveals that 27%, or £3.3m, of the £12.18m donated to the party came from hedge funds, financiers and private equity firms.

The findings come amid growing concerns that some parts of the financial sector, termed ‘asset strippers’ or ‘predator financiers’ by some commentators, profit from financial instability.

The Bureau’s investigation, on the eve of the Tories annual conference in Manchester, shows the proportion of donations to the Conservatives from the entire financial services sector has now reached 51.4% – up 0.6% from last year. This means the City’s financial influence over the Tories has deepened in the past 12 months.

Our analysis also shows:

Fifty City donors paid over £50,000 in the 12-month period covered by our study – which would gain them a face-to-face meeting with David Cameron as possible members of the Conservative party’s Leader’s Group.
The hedge fund industry, the largest contributor across all business sectors, donated £1.38m (11.4%) to Central Office. Three individuals (Michael Farmer, Lord Stanley Fink and Andrew Law) contributed a combined total of £636,300.
Financiers were the second-biggest group of Conservative Party donors from all business sectors, accounting for £1.3m. The top financier donor was David Rowland, who contributed £1.16m and is linked to Banque Havilland and hedge fund Blackfish Capital Management. Private equity financiers, such as Alexander Knaster and Edmund Truell, gave £565,400.
Outside the City, the sector that donated the most to the Conservatives was industry, including manufacturing and defence. This sector contributed £913,411 (7.5%). The biggest donation from this sector was £300,000 and came from JCB Research.
Favourable treatment?

There is no suggestion that any donor has made personal appeals to introduce policies that would benefit them, or gained from their donation in any way. But the extent of the Square Mile’s bankrolling of the party will raise questions over whether the Conservative-led coalition may be treating its financial supporters favourably.

The Conservative party would not comment on suggestions that the agenda of financial donors is given greater attention. But in its first 15 months of office, the Coalition has introduced several measures that could benefit its City backers. Policies include:
A commitment to reduce corporation tax from 28% to 23% by April 2014 for companies whose annual profits exceed £1.5m.
Exempting UK resident companies from corporation tax on all profits for their foreign branches.
A reduced tax rate to 5.75% on the treasury functions of large corporations in tax havens.
Reducing stamp duty tax for bulk purchases of residential property.
Planning reforms that propose to create a presumption to approval for schemes that are considered ‘sustainable’.
A firm commitment to oppose a Europe-wide financial transaction tax.
Dr. Stuart Wilks-Heeg, executive director of Democratic Audit, which monitors the state of democracy in the UK, said: ‘The coalition agreement included clear undertakings to take big money out of politics but there appears to be no sign of this happening. What this study tellingly reveals is the scale of the Conservative party’s reliance on a variety of City interests at a time when the Conservative-led government is attempting to kick banking reform into the long grass.’

Conservative party funding, like that of the Labour party, has seen a dramatic fall from last year, which covered a 10-month general election campaign. The Conservatives have seen a £21.94m fall in donations from the same period last year.

While the Conservative party is now reliant on the City for the bulk of its money, trade union funding now accounts for 91.3% of cash and non-cash donations to the Labour party’s central office, up from 59.9% in the year up to June 30 2010, according to the Electoral Commission.

As donations from the financial services sector to the Conservative party have risen, Labour’s support from companies and individuals has fallen sharply since Ed Miliband came to power. Between July 2001 and June 2010, private donations accounted for between 31.5% and 43.1% of party cash. Since July 2010, that figure has nose-dived to 6.6%.

Additional reporting by the Bureau’s political party funding team – Lucy Keating, David Pegg, Maeve McClenaghan and Emma Slater.

Good ding-dong lads, keep it up!

Max,

Who donates to your Uncle Nick's back pocket?

They dont like it up em Max, no they dont like it up em the Tory Boys.

Notice how they have all gone quiet.

Yes when the sleaze hits the thread they do a runner.

DAVID MOYES......FOOTBALL GENIUS!!!!


If anybodys wondering the above is about as relevant as the constant shite overflowing from the irrelevant red flag fliers above.

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Spot on!

David Cameroon ‏@davecameroon
I'm on top of this chaps! I pledge more bank bonuses and unregulated markets to tackle the floods:
http://wp.me/p1U04a-6uK

What is wrong withbank bonuses?

And I will buy the Thames voters with handouts and promises.

Forget Hull.

Forget Bedroom taxes.

Forget Welfare payments.

Forget financial cuts to environment service.

Forget cuts in environment agency staffing levels.

Cut back in social services.

Privatise the NHS, sell it off!

There are loads of dosh to give to tory voters.

He knows what he is doing.

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Barclay's have increased bankers bonuses

Barclay's did NOT take any bailout money from the government.

Therefore it is none of anyone's business what Barclay's pay people

Ohh yes it is........their customers whom without them they wouldnt survive.

No doubt some share holders would like a say aswel.

Hays youve had a bad day..........take a nap old lad.

I think that Cameron is doing as much as he can with the floods.....flooding is going to be the trend for the next hundred years with it getting worse year by year or has nobody understood that global warming is here to stay !...thanks Goldfinger for that article on how good Brown is and how good Labour is for the country....I nearly fell asleep reading it...might be good for insomnia ....(beats 10 minutes of Andrew Marr)....

Why should it concern their customers? They should be concerned with service and cost as value for money. When dealing with other businesses people do not take any interest in pay scales in them.

Shareholders get a say at AGMs and via renumeration committees

Strange that RF as it came from a TORY.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.