Bold Seagull
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Should David Cameron resign?
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LONGTIME DIEHARD
Surely the Goverment (any party) can't be so inthe dark ,with so many civil servants and spooks, that they don't know when the shit is going to hit the fan .The Goverment taps everything so how come they say they didn't know about the NOW?
I think you will find the FSA took responsibility for this one.
I agree that he did not balance the books well enough, spent too much on defence, education and health. As for the gold reserves, they were sold for market price at the time, which is all that can be expected. If they had not been sold they would not have generated any actual income.
I loathe PFI, but he merely copied his predecessor here.
Disagree, the problem with pension schemes is that they invest in equities, where the markets have been weak for over a decade, and bonds, which have delivered poor returns due to a low interest rate economy. There's no reason why pension companies should be more or less exempt from being taxed than the rest of the economy. Mis-selling of pensions took place predominantly prior to Brown being at the helm, though he did little to rectify this.
The only western economy that has escaped the global banking crisis is probably Australia, and this is due to it's mineral wealth that it could export to China during the crisis.
What would the opposition have done to improve things, and deliver the same amount of economic growth? George Osborne did suggest an alternative, which was to let the likes of Northern Rock and RBS go to the wall, rather than bail them out. We will never know if he was right, but I suspect the UK banking system would have collapsed due to the degree of interdependency.
Skilful bankers, lawyers and accountants can run rings around politicians and civil servants, so even a tighter regulatory environment would have made no difference, given the global nature of financial services transactions and the ease with which money and debt can be transferred across borders.
Brown bashing is ridiculously simplistic, having worked at Bear Sterns, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, UBS, Credit Suisse and private equity houses the boys there are smarter, tougher, more mobile and harder working than any elected official, and are always half a dozen steps ahead of the curve.
Agreed. I think Liam (Fox, not Gallagher) may be his nemesis....
Perhaps he is afraid that Rebekah will do to him what she did to Ross Kemp, and beat him up.
I'm beginning to feel very old...
When I was at school in our 6th Form we were taken around the old "Sun" printing works, when it was still in Fleet Street and was a rebrand of "The Daily Herald" which was effectively a working-class Labour mouthpiece.
Then the "News of the Screws" was basically a weekend relax from the pressures of a 5 (or often then, 6) day week.
How times change, and "Times"...
When I was at school in our 6th Form we were taken around the old "Sun" printing works, when it was still in Fleet Street and was a rebrand of "The Daily Herald" which was effectively a working-class Labour mouthpiece.
Then the "News of the Screws" was basically a weekend relax from the pressures of a 5 (or often then, 6) day week.
How times change, and "Times"...
melias shoes
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While I fully agree that the whole Blair/Gallagher brothers episode was highly embarrassing, I think it's ironic that the poster pointing that a middle-aged man should act with more dignity is called Melia's Shoes
melias shoes
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wadhurstseagull
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Yes
melias shoes
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While I fully agree that the whole Blair/Gallagher brothers episode was highly embarrassing, I think it's ironic that the poster pointing that a middle-aged man should act with more dignity is called Melia's Shoes
Bold Seagull
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You've got as much chance of Dodgy Dave resigning than Teflon Tony being indicted as a war criminal. Dave should have the balls to tell Uncle Rupert the BSkyB bid most definitely wont go through until the ginger tart has a P45 in her hands.
Bold Seagull
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I'm not defending Brown, I am merely arguing that Brown shouldn't form Cameron's defence. This thread is about Cameron is it not, and seems to have been hijacked by people wanting to talk about a former prime minister!
Seagull kimchi
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Cameron is a glass eyed pimp with sick colored trousers bouncing too far above his girl like ankles.
He just doesn't fit.
He just doesn't fit.
pork pie
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Now the toddler faced prick has admitted the ridiculous judgement call was his and his alone, should he walk?
It won't happen but it's nice to see the Tory tradition of hanging out with scumbags and mega rich lowlives is still going strong.
We're all in this together, just some of us more than others, evidently.
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Pot, kettle and black spring to mind.
Oh, and the answer is NO!
Seagull on the wing
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Like Blair with Mandelson who was sacked twice and still bought back by Blair. Labour had 13 years to correct any Tory mistakes and were'nt able to put this country back on it's feet.The whole system has it's crooks of any party.
Martin Lambert
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that