Parliamentary Panto
Panto season is upon us:
Mr. Redwood: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what value of assets the Bank of England has accepted as collateral for loans to Northern Rock; (2) what proportion of the Bank of England's total assets are represented by claims on Northern Rock and its assets.
Kitty Ussher: The sum borrowed by the company is confidential.
Oh no it isn't! Despite much inconsequential huffing and puffing from Schillings you can still read in detail about Northern Crock's supposedly confidential finances here.
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Clearly in the public domain, though only in part. But that doesn't mean it's not confidential.
Specialist terminology.
In this instance 'confidential' means 'we don't have a fucking clue how much, but we're not going to admit it.'
Northern Rock is a festering can of worms that is bringing the British banking system into disrepute and has destroyed the governments reputation for economic management in the City and amongst foreign investors.
It is an appalling indictment of Gordon Brown's incompetence and dishonesty.
Clearly in the public domain, though only in part. But that doesn't mean it's not confidential.
Bit of oxymoron there or are ZanuLab redefining the term confidential?
Confidentiality has been defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as "ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access"
Yes indeed, to whom is this information 'confidential'? Confidentiality means that it is available to a select group. Maybe the lovely Kitty could explain just who are its members.
I suppose one of them will be that festering 'member', Al Darling.
I wish I knew some jokes as I would tell them...
Guido.
I just love the way you attack the right wing press and the right wing in General.
I love the way you attack the Tory Party, where and whenever.
But you and I know the truth.
You are a simple cunt of the Tory blogsphere created and registered in Belize (home is where your heart is).
I'd like to send you a christmas card but no fucker has loaned me the money to buy one.
Gary
Gary, he attacks the government. Or "government?" as they now are.
I'd like to send you a christmas card but no fucker has loaned me the money to buy one.
Gary, could you not apply to the social for a crisis loan to buy one? I know the DSS are quite busy in this time of year in your drab little pottery town, but if you turn up early I'm sure you could get one of the low numbers in the cheese counter style queue to see the disinterested low grade civil servant who deals with such things.
'Confidential' is code for "I'm not going to tell you because Gordon doesn't want any bad headlines while he is in Kabul, single-handedly winning the war on terror. Yes, I may be a grossly over-promoted town councillor and a little stupid, but I am a government minister and you're not. And as you know well, the government can do whatever it wants. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, Vulcan Boy. Nur nur nur nur nur nur..."
Word verification: pertkitty
"Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last loose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
-Commissioner Pravin Lal
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Truth can be found in all places.
Kitty, a word in your ear - IT'S OUR FUCKING MONEY propping up ZaNu Labour PF's favourite bank.
I see the ZanuLabour trolls are suddenly out in force today. Obviously the glorios leader has defined the terms of the fightback and the paid apparatchiks of ZanuLabour are implementing the plan to the letter. So we know what our glorious leader is thinking, thanks to the trolls spinning their little yarns on this site:-
1] Labour may very well be shit but the Tories of days of yore were much worse.
2] It doesn't matter that the country is bankrupt. Unemployment is down.
3] The Tories are trying to talk down the economy so its all their fault. They have all the real power even though they haven't won an election for 10 years. so if anything goes wrong it must be their fault.
4] It doesn't matter if Labour are incompetent and corrupt. Just keep the Tories out. Maggie, maggie, maggie out out out. Just ignore that I had her round for tea the other day.
Talking of pantomime, anybody know where Gerry and Cilla McCann are this year? There'll be many opportunities for the BBC to film them going into church hand-in-hand and praying but they deserve their own show, Puss In (car) Boots, perhaps, or Babes (left alone) In The Woods or Ali Baba and the Forty (Morroccan) Child Thieves, Cinderella and the Two Ugly Parents, the options are endless. Whichever they chose to do one thing is for certain is that the british press will be fully behind them. Just Like the Portuguese plods. Bless.
What Kitty meant to say was...
"The sum borrowed by the company is confidential
(because if anyone found out how much it was
a) there might be another run on UK banks as hedge funds and traders realise that we can't afford politically to let them go under either so we'd have to rescue them all on the same beneficial terms
b) we might all realise how fucked the UK economy looks and how little the UK taxpayers can afford to prop up a speculative lender
and
c) it would completely put pay to the laughable concept that McBroon and (More Tea,) Darling know what the hell they're doing.)
Never mind that, witness the supposed "technical problems" with the audio feed from the Police Pay Conference courtesy of the Brown Broadcasting Corporation. It sounded as though the sound feed was coming from a toilet populated by a crowd of diarhhoeic fidgets, one of whom whispered "is the sound alright!?
Clearly Gordo himself didn't want anyone to hear the bad news, that the police voted no confidence in Zampolit Smith, despite her generous mammaries.
Hmmmm... so unprofessional... one trusts the BBC would not have such sound problems with the voice of the great leader himself...
Ivan Dobski:
Crisis loan! What fucking crisis loan?
I deny everything, from crisis to loans. It wasn't me. I was not there. It was someone else.I was set up.
I knows me story and I'm sticking to it.
Now, let's get to the reasons why Guido is softening the ground up for a certain Lord, who is about to launder his reasons for not paying tax into the NHS treasury.
Is it because Labour has the secret list of names who 'lend' money to the Eton hardship fund?
I think we should be told!
Gary
Gary, why don't you fuck off to your 'Unemployable Arsewipes Club' and play dominoes or interfere with your ferrets?
I've decided that what I am paid this year will be confidential.
Sorry government, no income tax and NI or you.
I have a comment but its " confidential".
@ Gary Elsby Stoke-On-Trent
Your Crisis Loan is in the post
Please call in soon to the benefits office with your CV and your back to work plan.
Fleming Rd
Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 4AG
01782 426100
What is it that's got the Vulcan up and going recently?
I smell something comical is about to happen to the Tory Party soon. Come on they've been in danger of being taken seriously recently.
BUT NO!
Enter stage left. the longed for forgotten.... "Maidenhead Amateur Dramatic Future Unionist Conservatives". (MADFUCs)
JUST RISEN FROM THE GRAVE. ONCE MORE!
JUST in time for Christmas! BOOK NOW.
Tickets cost an election and have a face value of 0.00001p
Christ [sic] with friends like these.
They couldn't throw a pittance to bail out Rover a few years back, but find billions to bail out a private bank that was in the habit of issuing mortgages to homeless people who probably couldn't really afford to keep up the payments.
Tis a banker's world, and no mistake.
Here are Schillings trying (and failing) again to show their expertise in "reputation management". When are their 'celeb' clients going to cotton on that going to Schillings only serves to AMPLIFY.
From yesterdays cityspy page of the Evening Standard:
"Adam cuts short date with lawyer
Former Northern Rock chief executive Adam Applegarth tried to stop lurid new stories about his affair with another Rock employee being published by hiring solicitors Schillings. But married Applegarth, who was said to have spent a string of dates with Amanda Smithson from the buy-to-let division at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York and Washington, didn’t follow through by seeking an injunction.
Schillings was also involved in another case involving the love life of a City high-f lier, Lord Browne, which ended disastrously for the then boss of BP earlier this year. Given the trouble already heaped on Northern Rock, Applegarth may have decided he was better off not going to court."
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