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.

Absolutely gf, fabulous profits under Labour, even the Banking Sector. I seem to recall Fred Goodwin being awarded a Knighthood but then ..........Oooopps.

Boom and Bust! Same old, same old!!! :0)

LOL its the Tories who created the 'BIG BANG'.... and no thats not you and Hays going for it tooth and nail, you being his rent boy.

The Big Bang was Maggies creation.

The City was Maggies creation, it was the CITY WHO BANKRUPT THIS COUNTRY.

How can you ignore Broon's hand in the bust?

LOL!!! Is it in yet Fred? Indeed, indeed! :O)

And what a mess the Labour appointees made of Co-op bank!

We all know when you have been beaten in the debate Chris, stick to the golf course and the 12 year old boys.

HAYS LOL LOL LOL and tell me what was Osbourne trying to do then just 2 months ago.

ANYWAY youve lied you said you have me on filter.

Max sorry bud, youve been badly informed. Would you like the evidence????????????????

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-is-serious-threat-to-ed-milibands-chances-of-a-labour-victory-at-the-next-general-election-former-aide-warns-9770790.html

Ukip poses a "serious threat" to Labour’s chances of victory at next May’s general election, a former aide to Ed Miliband reports.

A forensic study of the electoral map published by the Labour-affiliated Fabian Society rejects claims by some senior party figures that Nigel Farage could help Labour regain power because most of his party’s supporters are former Conservative voters. It says many of these people are in safe Tory seats and so their flight to Ukip will not affect the election’s outcome.

In contrast, it concludes that Ukip’s “rising tide” already poses a “very serious” threat to Labour’s hopes in 22 key marginal constituencies the party hopes to win, while the Tories are under serious threat in only 11 key seats.

In total, there are 59 seats where a surge in Ukip support has the potential to seriously impair Labour’s prospects, including 39 Conservative-Labour marginals. Although Mr Farage’s party could potentially damage Tory prospects in 67 seats, only 13 of these are Tory-held seats on Labour’s target list.

Marcus Roberts, the Fabians’ deputy general secretary, who worked on Mr Miliband’s 2010 Labour leadership campaign, says in his report: “Labour has few reasons to cheer about the Ukip insurgency and plenty to worry about… A strong Ukip result presents Labour with many chances to lose, and few to gain.”

He concludes: “Ukip poses a clear and present danger to Labour’s 2015 hopes and, left unchecked, could threaten to pull apart the party’s historic electoral coalition and challenge it in large swathes of its heartland territory.”

Beaten in the debate what debate would that be then? All I read is constant verbal shite from you and Fred, it's pathetic! If the Labour Party was a stock you would both be vilified for constant ramping. You could give the boiler room scumsters a good run for their money.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/517937/Ed-Miliband-mansion-tax-plans-neighbours-London-street

LOL Tory newspapers again.

Come up North if you dare Hays and visit the clubs and bars.........UKIP my ass taking labour votes, not in your life, but certainly Tory voters.

CHRISTINE C who was responsible then for the 2008 crash????

Hurry up Chris my pheasant is going cold.

You talking to me? Tell you who it wasn't. The Tories. And you will argue it wasn't Labour despite the evidence. Bored already, it's history. Move on.

Tory Boys all gone quiet.

Set Fred Set.

fishfinger - 03 Oct 2014 18:28 - 46733 of 46736
who was responsible then for the 2008 crash????

Darling Alistair and The One Eyed Scottish Monster!

Or maybe you're not interested in hearing about how they failed to burst a debt-fuelled bubble before it got too big. Or about their scorched earth policy which left the country without a pot to piss in, and which meant the incoming government were unable to implement some of the Keynesian policies that would have helped ease the problem.

Hilary honestly I didnt want to get you involved here, but if the men cant stand up for themselves i suppose they have to use a women to protect them (nothing malicious meant)and your supporting a group of wimps, well bar cynic.

So Ive taken into account what you say above which mirrors the Tory Press and tory boys themselves.

Now obviously you support the 'Big Bang Phenomenon' created by Maggie Thatcher and her inner circle. Basicaly it was a policy to de-regulate the Banking System in order to create more jobs/employment tax revenues in the CITY OF LONDON.

Now this was all for good for a few years but there was a big downside she did not understand she did not imagine.

The power of Capitalism to RUN RIOT.

This is what happened and developed not just here but all around the World as the USA and others all copied Maggies defunked idea

In the UK, Big Bang became one of the cornerstones of the Thatcher government's reform programme. Prior to these reforms, the once-dominant financial institutions of the City of London were failing to compete with foreign banking. While London was still a global centre of finance, it had been surpassed by New York, and was in danger of falling still further behind.
Thatcher's government claimed that the two problems behind the decline of London banking were overregulation and the dominance of elitist old boy networks and that the solution lay in the free market doctrines of unfettered competition and meritocracy.

Although the "Big Bang" eased stock market transactions there is a debate in the UK about how far it affected the 2007–2012 global financial crisis. In 2010, Nigel Lawson, Thatcher's Chancellor at the time, appeared on the Analysis program to discuss banking reform, explaining that the 2007–2012 global financial crisis was an unintended consequence of the "Big Bang". He said that UK investment banks, previously very cautious with what was their own money, had merged with high street banks putting depositors' savings at risk and ...according to the program leading US banks to follow suit.

The WORLD followed suit.

Ohhh dear in his own words Thatchers chancellor says we were responsible.