Gold, Girls, Brown & Bust Banks
Guido wishes he had bought his daughters more gold each when they were born. Still with gold at $1030 an ounce, tripling in three years is satisfactory. Thanks Gordon for depressing the price.
When Brown and Darling try to present themselves as the safe pairs of hands in this coming time of economic crisis, remember that Brown was the financial whizz who sold Britain's gold reserves at the historic low for dollars. Now as the dollar goes into freefall the total loss from that idiotic decision (he even told the market to get short before he sold off the reserves) will dwarf the few billion lost by the Bank of England on White Wednesday. Brown's judgement is neither good or timely.
We have yet to have the final reckoning for Northern Rock, where some estimate that over 20% of the loans are to mortgagees with negative equity. The Fed arranged the sale of Bear Stearns in comparable circumstances over this weekend. It took dithering Brown months to make the wrong decision on Northern Rock. Remember how Lloyds TSB was interested in buying Northern Rock in much the same way Morgan Chase has just bought Bear Stearns?
When Brown and Darling try to present themselves as the safe pairs of hands in this coming time of economic crisis, remember that Brown was the financial whizz who sold Britain's gold reserves at the historic low for dollars. Now as the dollar goes into freefall the total loss from that idiotic decision (he even told the market to get short before he sold off the reserves) will dwarf the few billion lost by the Bank of England on White Wednesday. Brown's judgement is neither good or timely.
We have yet to have the final reckoning for Northern Rock, where some estimate that over 20% of the loans are to mortgagees with negative equity. The Fed arranged the sale of Bear Stearns in comparable circumstances over this weekend. It took dithering Brown months to make the wrong decision on Northern Rock. Remember how Lloyds TSB was interested in buying Northern Rock in much the same way Morgan Chase has just bought Bear Stearns?
The Tory benches are full of people who have worked in financial markets, Letwin, Redwood, even Andrew Mitchell and many more understand the markets far more than the student union activist turned TV producer cum PM and the dull barrister ever will. Faced with the worst financial crisis since the seventies what did they do? Implement a pre-emptive growth package in the budget? No, they threatened to tax plastic bags and put up car duties and taxes for those on lower incomes. Pathetic.
UPDATE : The LibDem benches, it has been pointed out in the comments, also have their fair share of brains acquainted with financial markets - Cable and Laws to name two. The Labour benches are devoid of experience.
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Well said that man.
About time Call me Dave started uttering the same.
We have yet to have the final reckoning for Northern Rock, where some estimate that over 20% of the loans are to mortgagees with negative equity.
Shouldn't that be mortgagors? Why not just say borrowers?
Guido - the difference between Bare Stains and Northern Wreck is that the primary motivation of the UK government was and is preservation of jobs and the local economy in their core constituencies. Lloyds TSB would have shut the operation down and absorbed management of the assets into its existing infrastructure. So £110 Bn of taxpayers' money put at risk to preserve 6000 jobs, half of which will have to go anyway now, and the other half in a few years time. In addition there was around NR a large legal and professional support network, the salaries were spent locally, the local sports teams were funded (NUFC and the Falcons to name but a few), they were spending over £100M in the local construction trade on two new head offices (one would not do!) and the Charitable Foundation paid for all their favourite causes and employed the usual Newcastle business and political mafia.
And he fucked up private pensions and he hides PFI and ALMO costs and he disguises the cost of state-employee pensions and he has increased taxation and he has increased red tape and he made it illegal to price oneself into a job and he lied about our constitution and he sold our health policy for a £1m and he has undermined civil liberties and he wastes billions on NHS computers and he underfunds wars he helped start and he is a cunt.
Worry not, good people. All it needs to get Britain back on track is more state intervention. Nice to know our money is being spent so wisely and efficiently.
Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, will tomorrow announce a £218 million expansion of Family Intervention Projects - a scheme which tackles potential troublemakers by signing them up to good behaviour contracts.
Police could issue a "baby Asbo" following a complaint from a teacher that a child was skipping lessons or concerns from a neighbour about poor parental behaviour.
An "assertive and persistent'' case worker would be assigned to each child to "grip" the family and ensure they all get suitable help, such as drug treatment or anger management.
"Communities want lasting improvements and that means not only stopping bad behaviour but also changing it and intervening early," said Mr Balls.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/nasbo117.xml
Looks like the Govt 30% stake in British Energy is going to be sold off. Yet another 'nationalised' asset saved for the nation in a blind panic .
Hopefulluy, they will manage to get shot of it before the stock market has crashed.
Saw 'Call me Dave' on the box this weekend. His words were not exactly encouraging. Essentially it was "with the benefit of hindsight we shouldn't be here".
Well that is all well and good Dave, but what are you proposing to do to get us out of the Brown stuff?
Here he was far less forthcoming. One can sympathize with Dave - if he had proposed a good policy then Brown would have nicked it faster than the four tyres off a moving car in Liverpool.
Dave's problem is that he cannot convince us that he has a solution to the present crisis. At least Vince Cable seems able to analyze the present problem. And this is more than can be said of Osbourne.
Dave needs more 'meat' in his shadow treasury team if he is to win. He just cannot expect to do so by staying quiet and watching the comedy of errors farce that is Labour's treasury front bench.
All very true. It all goes to show that there is a world of a difference between "being a friend of business" (i.e. cosying up to them for donations) and really knowing how to handle what goes on in the private sector.
Perhaps a Conservative government could outsource the bank regulation duties of the FSA to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
wonder when labour will come out with a statement using the words of the 'anti nowhere league'?
"So what, so what, you boring little cu...."
(i wish i had time to do a flash animation party political broadcast for the labour party with that song as the backing)
Labour economically illiterate?
So what?
Wasn't there another brainless waste of our money when he poured millions (billions) into the US economy just when everyone else was selling dollars in anticipation of a fall in value?
'The worst financial crisis since the seventies...'! Are you sure? This is as bad as France 1789 - and you know what happened then, Mr Guillotine! The seventies - a piece of cake. The Great Depression - only took a world war to get over it. This is massively more dangerous than anything seen in modern times!
Looking into the future - the Dow at 3,000, FTSE at 1,500 by 2010. The good news - Brown loses a no confidence vote and we have an election by the end of this year.
The reason Brown raised taxes for those on Low incomes, is that he wants them to be dependent on the state. he wants them to come to the state cap in hand asking for a handout.
What he forgets is that the majority (a growing majority) of those on low incomes are pensioners. Who either because they do not like to beg or have saved for a rainy day (unlike that useless cunt Brown) will now take a pay cut when the 10% tax rate goes.
But where was Dave when Brown announced his master plan, where was his voice? I certainly didn't see and hear him taking Gordon to task.
Because nulab have been so successful in building their dependent client base , see this weeks ST for the startling figures on the %'s getting all of their 'income' from the state in many areas, there are clearly a lot of people with an interest in the status quo ! That is likely to inhibit the Tories from proposing anything too startling.
However , when its possible to save a reported £7,000 from your income benefit and take the kids off to Goa for a little light recreational binging, there probably is room for action
On the TV call-me-Dave discussed the government borrowing figures whilst not mentioning that the 3.0%figure is an EU imposed limit.
The result of this EU limit is that our UK politicians have their hands tied behind their backs when it comes to the necessary actions they may need to take to get us out of the morass.
Balls is Prescott
Ever since the Today programme on Friday March 7th, Ed Balls, our Secretary of State for Schools, Family and Children, has been destroying my concentration. He runs through my head like a cheap tune whose title I can't remember. He has come up in almost every conversation I've had. I am now thinking of stopping people in the street and saying 'That Ed Balls eh....'. I'm pretty sure what will follow is that now familiar explosion of anger beginning, 'That bastard, he.....!'. The first problem is that Balls is so flagrantly not cut out to be a politician. His appearance on that Today show was heroically incompetent. John Humphrys sliced, diced and sauteed the poor fool so effectively that I began to sorry for him in spite of the fact that he appeared to be doing to A levels what he has done to everything else he touches - ballsing them up. The second problem is that he exudes invincible arrogance. As I think I have said before, he has a 'Wapshott' face in which a certain airy blandness is combined with a shadowy smirk suggesting absolutely groundless faith in his own intellectual powers. There is something so utterly tasteless about the man. Look, for example, at the house he owns in Castleford - it appears to have no windows which may explain why he blinks so much when he goes outside. The point is, I now realise, that he is John Prescott's replacement. Prezza was employed by Blair and Brown to be so perfectly ridiculous that he made them look good. Ever since his departure, the government has been dangerously exposed. But now Balls has risen to such prominence, now he is routinely blamed for everything from bad schools to bad weather, he has become the new Prescott. Normal service has been resumed.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 7:40 AM 8 comments links to this post
"The Tory benches are full of people who have worked in financial markets"
I believe the same applies to the Lib Dem benches (Laws, Cable et al.).
NOW LABOUR PLANS LAW TO BAR WHITE MEN FROM JOBS
Monday March 17,2008
By Macer Hall, Political Editor
WHITE men could be blocked from jobs under a Government equality drive spearheaded by Harriet Harman.
The Labour Deputy Leader and Equalities Minister is planning laws to promote women and ethnic minorities in the workplace.
Firms would be allowed to favour candidates for jobs or promotion on the grounds of race or gender.
Officials insist the move is “positive action” rather than discrimination and remain opposed to job quotas for women or ethnic minorities.
Tory MP Mark Pritchard said: “This is yet more political correctness from Harriet Harman, pandering to the rampant feminism still lurking in Labour. It is a counter-productive and patronising idea that can only breed resentment.”
A source close to Ms Harman said the move was designed to bring Britain’s employment law closer in line with EU practices.
The aim was to “address under-representation” in cases where candidates were “equally qualified”.
The source added: “This is not about positive discrimination, we don’t think that is the right way to do it.”
The move is likely to be outlined in a Government policy document to be published within the next two months.
Ministers hope to introduce a new Equalities Bill into Parliament this year.
The measure would apply only in cases where two or more equally-qualified candidates were after the same post.
"People will be saying 'wouldn't it be great to have that Blair back because we can't stand that Gordon Brown',"
David Miliband
8 February 2007
@West Lothian Answer - Sack Him! said...
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And he fucked up private pensions
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Just so. And did you know that 20% of your council tax bill goes towards Council employee pensions?
Must be nice for all those people who can't afford to save for their own pensions that they *can* afford to save for other peoples' pensions.
Thought - an "80% only" campaign, to get people to just pay that amount of their council tax. Civil disobedience on matters financial can only help to ditch this "government" sooner rather than later
My heart bleeds to heat Tories calling out as the 'voice of the poor'.
Dave is proud of you Guido.
I just think you are a cunt.
Gary
To those who were wondering how the government comes up with those bizarre CPI figures - here's how:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7300234.stm
No doubt memory sticks are a staple ingredient of the shopping baskets of most of us that we simply can't do without.
Time for your restart interview isn't it Gary?
Elby the beserk - you have THE answer, which I and many others have mooted here before.
The Britsh phlegmatic stoicism in the face of continued assaults on their liberty has become our own worst enemy. We have become a nation of Chamberlains, where we need a nation of Frenchmen. You wouldn't see the French putting up with the crap meted out to the freeborn indigenous Southern tax-paying Englishman.
They cannot lock everyone up, or indeed anyone, unless we allow it to remain limited to a few courageous pensioners, who are shamefully unsupported by the indifferent vast majority.
Hit these cunts where they will pay immediate attention - in their pockets. Never mind deducting just the pension part of council tax, ditch the police precept if you are dissatisfied with the performance of those idle jobsworths, ignore all speeding tickets, and parking fines, and most of all withdraw your coerced support for the State Propaganda Unit, the BB-fuckinC.
We would have results in a New York minute.
gary elsby, stoke's most prolific welfare writer - I see you have mastered the concept of cunt as a noun. Well done - now do you see it written in the mirror every morning? No? Look harder it is there, probably fully unwaxed to go with the sandals.
Slightly OT: I see that Streatham Labour Party have selected Chukka Ummuna as their next Parliamentary candidate. After a pretty nondescript legal career Chukka washed up at Compass, where he was instrumental in that group's tendentious and divisive attacks on Boris Johnson. It looks like Labour are not only shedding their reputation for economic competence, they are in danger of adopting the failed "identity" politics of the US left. It's a dead end...
Backwoodsman's ST link is worth a deeper look:
Sixty areas of Britain have become so dependent on state handouts that more than half of all adults are unemployed and on benefits, official figures have revealed.
In one part of Rochdale 76% of working-age adults are receiving out-of-work benefits. Other areas where benefits have become a way of life include parts of Manchester, Liverpool, London and Plymouth.
In Britain, one in five children – 2.2m – now live in households entirely dependent on state benefits, the highest proportion in Europe.
Nice to know the state cares so much.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3559273.ece
"Thought - an "80% only" campaign, to get people to just pay that amount of their council tax. Civil disobedience on matters financial can only help to ditch this "government" sooner rather than later"
I agree wholeheartedly with Elby at 11.20.
There are no prison places after all. We've been slapped round the face too hard and for too long.
Oooops! says gay gordon as the markets crash.
So what? say odd Balls when hearing about people crushed under huge tax burdons!
Like watching a slow motion car crash with a sense of dejavou, I keep getting a 'told you so' moment.
Well never mind eh? Gay Gordon says that we will have stringent new CO2 targets that will save us from Al Gore, or something like that! and we can all rest assured that while the great depression bites we can keep ourselves comforted by the thought that our MPs will not suffer one bit and they will have plenty of taxpayer cash to keep themselves in good food, fine wine and fancy holidays!
ENJOY!
I fear that the police are going to need to invest in more riot shields.
Guido is an Irish man who lives in Ireland.
Why do you think he always uses the Irish economy as a beacon of prosperity?
Yes Ireland has a low tax economy, but its recent impressive growth came about due to the Irish being in the Euro. Ireland has also received billions in subsidy from the EU.
Yet Guido ( an Irishman in Ireland ) hates the EU and the Euro.
Furthermore Ireland has no NHS, no welfare state, and virtually no credible infrastructure. Its getting better, but with that nasty EU money.
Let me tell you a story about Ireland. ( I go quite often ).
My daughter was sick one night while in Ireland, we called a doc, and he met us at the local hospital at 1:00am. She had a virus, and he prescribed the appropriate medicine. He then wrote out his invoice £60 Euro. I flashed my NHS card, and he said thank you very much and we left with the 60 Eu in OUR pockets..
The next day our niece who lives in Ireland caught the same virus, again the doc was called late at night, same scenario unfolded, except her mother had to part with the 60 Euro.
Incidentally my niece also received an invoice when she was born, 1650 Euros.
So Guido keep on using Ireland as a beacon.
Also a line of cocaine is now cheaper than half a pint of cider according to Nelson
Dave and Gidieon will be dlighted
11.13: Harriet Harridan Harmthenation is a barmy, dangerous old-fashioned soviet socialist of the most evil, totalitarian kind. Watch her well, folks. She gets a frisson of pleasure at uttering the barmiest, most outrageous ideas, like the Benns. She is an arrogant, discriminatory, bigoted, nasty super-bitch who needs taking down a peg or two. I hope at the next election (if Chairman Brown doesn't ban democracy in the meantime) she gets her "Portillo moment". I will be watching champagne at the ready to see the bitch consigned to the dustbin of history.
Guido, can't we have a Harmthenation exposé of this horrible woman? Whatever happened to her donation fiddling scandal?
Gold nugget post Guido, chickens coming home to roost!
How can Darling (read Brown) be so sure that the UK's economy will grow at 2% this year, when the USA is about to go into recession?
Ireland, what a shithole of a Country, that is!
Gary
to say that Ireland 'has no welfare state' is not correct -it it actually has a fairly decent system of child allowances, health care, dole allowances, pensions etc
it just doesn't have the monumental size of the UK's
It also does not have (as badly) the social problems of the UK, as it doesn't have anything like the huge urban areas/sink estates of the UK. there is no angle to this -its just a fact, and a fairly obvious one at that.
The problems are more immediate than Gordo would like to think. The Money Markets have today frozen up, not like before but in the overnight lending markets as well. The Bank of England attempted to throw £5b into the system and it was gobbled up quicker than a Frontbench bogey.
To Warriormonk.
Ireland does NOT have a welfare state.
It has bare minimum support for the unemployed, and there is no NHS, if you have an accident, you get a hospital bill, unless u have private health cover.
And yes inner city Dublin does have very real social problems; Ireland also has one of the worse alcohol, drug and gambling problems in the whole of the EU.
Guido always uses Ireland as beacon for his economic drivel, and that is what it is drivel. I lived in Ireland for a year, and couldn’t wait to return to the UK, it is a banana republic with little or no institutions.
House price inflation in Ireland makes our look like small fry, Inflation is now beginning to bite hard, and if you shop in Ireland the price of basic goods is frightening
Guess what – Ireland has had a Neo Con government for the past 12 years
PS a trip to the GP cost 50 Euro in Ireland
@45
gary elsby, stoke's most prolific welfare writer - I see you have mastered the concept of cunt as a noun. Well done - now do you see it written in the mirror every morning? No? Look harder it is there, probably fully unwaxed to go with the sandals.
Brilliant, simply brilliant.
Only problem being, gary being a cretin first-class, just will not get it. Far far far over his head.
@ anonymous at 12.41
Whoopee do! A whole 60 euros!!
Last year I paid about £80,000 in tax. The gubmint spends £587,000,000,000 a year of which about 16% is on the NHS. 16% of what I gave the thieving cunts last year is £13,000 a year.
So I'll see your pathetic little 60 euros a pop and I'll raise you the £13,000 a year I am screwed out of so pikey ponces like you can have the NHS for nothing you northern vermin.
It is almost becoming an offence to be white!
It is time for everyone, black and white to fight these incompetent racists running this country.
If enough of us joined together and signed an on line petition promising NOT to pay TV licences! Not to pay Road Fund Licence. Not to pay Council Tax until this Brown visits the Queen to ask her to call a General Election.
I believe such a petition would be backed by Press comments etc. and would have a powerful reaction. Especially if we call a National Strike against this Government of ALL workers, for eight hours (9 - 5) on a particular
day.
Idea's off the top of my head BUT we have to unite to fight these racists and mad men and wimin in this rotten government.
Attention Ken fans
Ken Livingstone received a donation from a property developer with a fraud conviction after the London mayor championed the businessman's plan for a controversial skyscraper.
Gerald Ronson, the tycoon who was jailed for his role in the Guinness share-dealing scandal, wrote a cheque for £4,990 - £10 below the threshold for the public registration of donations with the Electoral Commission.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/nken117.xml
What strange bedfellows
Ireland, what a shithole of a Country, that is!
From someone who lives in Stoke, that's good that is. Or is it Liverpool these days then? Same difference really.
The dollar is going into free fall; the globalists are going to go for it now! Beware, the creation of the one world bank and government grows nearer and nearer...
PS a trip to the GP cost 50 Euro in Ireland - 1:21
What's wrong with that? Ooh doctor, I've got a bad back, headache, depression, broken nail, please sign me off work for six months. It might make them think next time.
Victoria's Empire soon got short of cannon fodder when things got a little rough, so the new idea was to recruit from the proles.
They soon found out that the vermin from the factories were sub-normal in all departments and found them not fit enough to even die.
Enter the idea of a National Health.
So Mr.£80.000 a year tax dodger, pay up in full if you want us fit and healthy, ready for conscription.
Surely it is a cunts trick to moan about your NI contributions? After all, my family is quite large.
Now pay up and shut your moaning mouth.
Gary
Who cares if we can get more $$$ for our gold now? We use £££ in this country. $$$ are worth nothing.
I've got no real objection to Gary Elsby having 40% of my cash. I just want the sad little tosser to come to my house, cap in hand, and ask me nicely for it.
I wholeheartedly agree with Elby, 45govt & Electro-Kevin, there needs to be a revolution.
Stop paying Income Tax, refuse to pay Council Tax, and barter for goods wherever possible to avoid VAT.
The country is already shafted financially thanks to that prick Brown selling gold (duh) to buy dollars (FFS), once there's a drop in income from the usually compliant public, they're fucked.
I AM THE REVOLUTION
After all, my family is quite large.
You should lay off the burgers then shouldn't you? You bunch of fat pikeys.
Oh, and that'll be 50 euros please.
Pay 60 Euros to see doctor, or wait 2 weeks and have massive (and wasted taxes).
Let me think? How much is that Irish ferry?
Maybe we need State plumbers (no callout when the bath floods), and State washing machine repairmen, and state hairdressers etc.
I can't understand the morality of being proud of managing to force someone else to pay for your health problems?
Maybe your just a socialist, and think you own others!
@ anonytwat 1:18
I know dublin has plenty of scumbags and drugs - so does limerick and parts of cork - what I was saying is that IT-DOES-NOT-HAVE-THE-SCALE of the UK problem as it does not have huge urban conurbations and also does not have the overdone system of the UK = a mentally impovrished underclass who are dependent on handouts for everything.
It also has some semblance of a society intact.
so glad you enjoyed your stay and went back to the uk to preach the nulab gospel - thats exactly what this country (uk) needs - hope you and Gary have fun destroying what was a once a great country.
Broon's Talking Bawgie said...
@ anonymous at 12.41
Whoopee do! A whole 60 euros!!
******
So in Irelnads Guido utopia a pensioner should pay 40 quid to see his GP.
Good luck selling that policy in the UK Tory Boy.
Guido sees Ireland as a economic utopia.
IT ISNT
AntiCitizenOne said...
Pay 60 Euros to see doctor, or wait 2 weeks and have massive (and wasted taxes).
Let me think? How much is that Irish ferry
*****
Good Luck AntiCitizenOne, dont forget to apply for very very expensive health insurance. When you have had your heart attack, the 30,000 Euro bill that you get after the op will finish you off.
Keep the faith - keep seeing Guido as you saviour, and true UK patriate.
HE ISNT EVEN A BRITISH CITERZEN
I think I would rather pay 60 euros to see the doctor considering that here I have to prove that I am clincially dead to get an appointment, and then it is only a locum who is barely out of nappies and hasn't a fucking clue. The trouble with human nature is that if you get something for free, (a) it will usually be crap, and (b) all the freeloaders will abuse and overuse it.
warriormonk said...
@ anonytwat 1:18
I know dublin has plenty of scumbags and drugs - so does limerick and parts of cork - what I was saying is that IT-DOES-NOT-HAVE-THE-SCALE of the UK problem
*****
YES IT DOES.
It also has the highest suicide rate in Europe.
It also has a bin tax
It also has virtually no planning law
It also has the worst drink drugs and gambling problem in Europe.
I could go on.
Keep on supporting Guido, the Irish man in Ireland.
He is making fools out of all of you.
You all love your anti hero Guido
He hates the UK government
He hates the royal family
He lambastes every institution in the land .
He gives the impression that he is patriot to the Tory cause, and is devastated
At what has happen under new labour
HORSE SHIT FOOLS
He is an Irishman living in Ireland, making his living in the UK..WHAT A CUNT
Typical NeoCon…Biting the hand that feds him.
So carry on your love affair with Guido…He is fooling you all
You are ALL missing the point.
Labout has put an end to boom and bust. Broon, Bliar and Darling have all said thgis so many times on the BBC, and never once challenged.
If you see market volatility in the UK economy, you must be wrong.
Anonymous said... 3:12 PM, March 17, 2008
I think I would rather pay 60 euros to see the doctor
GOT THE £3000 FOR THAT MINOR OP AS WELL HAVE YOU
@ Anon 3:12
Ireland doesn't have the highest suicide rate in Europe. It actually comes behind Belgium, France, Austria & Germany as well as pretty much all of the "new" European Baltic States.
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E77922.pdf
{/pedant}
The utter sub normal crtininity of the political classes in this country when it comes to dealing with the banks just beggars belief
I fully accept that we have to reckon that half of these utter fuckwits want a job in "banking" on their ejection from politics(any industry that employs nice but dim Lamont richly deserves its fate)but there has to be someone who recognises the avalanche of electoral gold that will shower on anyone who corrects the "tail wags dog" relationship of this country and its banking system.
Cameron and that formless vacuum of ineptitude Osborne should set out their stall;
SEPARATE BANKING LICENCES FOR U.K DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL BANKING.ANY BANK DIRECTOR BREAKING THIS GETS 30 YEARS IN AN ORANGE BOILER SUIT ON A CHAIN GANG IN WYOMING.CONVICTION TO BE SUMMARY BEFORE A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE WITH THE BURDEN OF PROOF REVERSED
DITTO FUND MANAGERS ESPECIALLY PENSION FUNDS
ALL CHOCOLATE TEAPOTS AT THE LUDICROUS FSA SUMMARILY EXECUTED ON TOWER HILL AT THE RATE OF TWO PER DAY (THIS WILL THEREFORE BE A TOURIST DRAW FOR TEN YEARS MINIMUM0
NO MP OR CIVIL SERVANT TO BE ALLOWED TO WORK IN THE INTERNATIONAL PART OF THE BANKING SYSTEM
Can't anybody just wake up to the damage that having to bail out these unspeakable preening morons every ten or so years does to Anglo Saxon society???????????
FUCKWITS.FUCKITS. FUCKWITS
Says my friend Colonel Madd
Oh...Ireland also has a lower Life expectancy.
Because if you get ill in your old age...you die.
Get cancer in your 60's, youre as good as dead. Infact 1000's of well off irish citerzens travel to the UK to get private health care every year, because if they get cancer Ireland none existent health care system will let them DIE.
So please stop listening to Paddy boy guido trying to convince you that it is a utopia
is it a special offer day for retards on here today?...there seems to be rather alot of them commenting..if thats how it can be described.
You're all forgetting one thing. We already have health insurance - it's called tax. The question is how effectively it is used.
Another great investment decision:
9 months ago, Brown sells 400m shares in British Energy at 520p. Now standing at 640p.
Another pile of our cash up in smoke.
How our servicemen are being treated by MOD
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-soldiers-tale-return-from-iraq-795524.html
Next time courageous Bean starts his...I'm sure the whole house will join with me in paying tribute to...please will someone just shoot the cunt.
I also see that Tory Michael Fallon is your Parliamentarian of the Year
Isn he the bloke who runs a child care company, that have a habit of killing the kids in their care
Anonymous fuckwit 3.20 - the amoutn I pay in taxes for the "free" NHS would buy me top of the range private medical insurance so I would not have to subsidise cretins such as you. You are welcome to what runs for a health service in this country and if the negligent stff don't get you, the MRSA and the Clostridium Difficile certainly will. Heard the latest - Muslim NHS medical staff refuse to follow hygiene guidelines as it involves scrubbing with alcohol-based lotion.
Anonymous fuckwit 3.20
- the amoutn I pay in taxes for the "free" NHS would buy me top of the range private medical insurance so I would not have to subsidise cretins such as you. You are welcome to what runs for a health service in this country and if the negligent stff don't get you, the MRSA and the Clostridium Difficile certainly will. Heard the latest - Muslim NHS medical staff refuse to follow hygiene guidelines as it involves scrubbing with alcohol-based lotion.
3:51 PM, March 17, 2008
is this in the Tory manifesto..I hope so.
See scratch the surface, and the Tories and their supporters are still NASTY NASTY NASTY
I reckon the whole work-force (there's an oxymoron for you) from that international 5-star shithole Stoke has abandoned the pubs, betting shops, wife-beating and all other approved ZaNuLab pastimes for the benefit classes to come here to support Gary-the-Cunt-Elsworth.
PikeysRUs have descended on us by the Transit Van load to explain to the people who support the feckless freeloading Northern cunts, just why it is such a good thing for all concerned. AND THEY FUCKING BELIEVE IT!!
Gary himself is starting to look almost intelligent amongst this illiterate, inumerate crowd of clingons on the arsehole of the North.
What time do the benefit offices open, or is the Giro just delivered by courier now?
@ Anon 3.30
Shorter life expectancy than where? Swaziland? No. Russia? No. Greenland? No. Turkey? No. Croatia? No. Portugal? Still no.
The UK? The USA? Yes by a "whopping" 0.8 and 0.1 of a year respectively, according to the CIA Factbook.
Ireland ranks 32nd in world wide life expectancy with 77.9 years. Not too shabby though, eh, considering the world average is only 65.82 years.
Got any more fascinating statistics about Ireland? Shortest people in Europe? Likeliest to smell of wee? Greatest eaters of moss?
Yes I have silass
Inflation in Gudio’s utopian Ireland is running at 2.5 per cent; inflation has risen steadily and last year reached 4 per cent, inflationary pressure are back and Irelands inflation is set to break 3% very soon. House price inflation is still rampant
The past 12 months have seen pay squeezes across the board in Ireland. In the past 2 years Irish cops, nurses and public servants have all been out on strike.
There is already a plastic bag tax and bin tax, and car tax and insurance in Ireland is unbelievably high ( I know I did live there ).
One of the most popular programmes on Eire TV was called “Rip off Republic” , its like our watch dog. Prices of goods and services in Ireland would make your eyes water the programme tried, but failed to turn the tide of high prices.
All of this and Guido tries to convince you idiots that Ireland is an economic utopia. Horse Shit.
In fact the credit crunch will hit Ireland like a sledge hammer, as it economic boom has been solely fuelled by US investment, DELL, ORACLE, HP, DHL, Microsoft, US Banks. All these companies only based in Ireland in the past 10 years.
Pint of Guinness in my local £2.20
Pint of Guinness in average pub in Dublin 5 Euros ( £3.60 )
Guidos lovely low tax utopian Ireland
Fuckin SHITE
Northern Wreck is that the primary motivation of the UK government was and is preservation of jobs and the local economy in their core constituencies....
You stupid fucking geordie mong...they couldn't give a fuck about jobs and the local economy...votes on the other hand.
Saw 'Call me Dave' on the box this weekend. His words were not exactly encouraging. Essentially it was "with the benefit of hindsight we shouldn't be here".
Well that is all well and good Dave, but what are you proposing to....bla bla...
Fuck me the Labour cock sucking trolls are out in force today aren't they?
And yet there is no shortage of hedge fund managers willing to humour the Labour party.
*We are witnessing the slow death of Neo-Keynsian orthodoxy. An increase in the money supply is inflation. We need to return our currencies worldwide to a gold standard peg.
*Until we do this we are going to experience a hyper-inflationary catastrophe that will create the 'Hitlers' of the twenty-first century.
*Who will the elites blame next? The workers and trade unions? No they are broken and powerless. And workers ask for more money because the consequence of devaluing money is a rise in prices.
*Anyone else? Maybe the Arabs. But no, in reality there's just the elite left. Who will you blame?
*Moneterism was a failure; we can't do that crap again. Solutions? Gold standard,powerful industry, savings and investment. There are no alternatives; this is classical economic theory.
*When Hayek asked Keynes if he was worried that some of his diciples were getting carried away with his ideas, Keynes turned to him and said, don't worry I'll tell everyone that it was only meant as a special measure in special circumstances. He'd tell everyone to think something different soon enough. Very shortly after this, Keynes was dead.
JPMorgan Chase paid less for Bear Stearns than LA Galaxy paid for David Beckham.
Wouldn't Gary be better off at Labout Home?
http://www.labourhome.org/
They only get about half a post every day - he could be the star of the show.
It has to be said that Ireland is as fucked as we are and for the same reasons - rampant money supply growth. So are
Spain,
Australia,
New Zealand,
Holland,
Croatia,
Bulgaria,
the Baltic states,
and Russia
Creating debt out of thin air and then selling it as real money. Some would call that a confidence trick, but Keynsians think it's a great way to run an economy.
very good Silas, that made me laugh - I wish I had more time on my hands to dig out some facts to disprove that anonymous fucking idiot.
Ireland is expensive though, and it will suffer badly in the recession we're due - but it is not as fucked as the UK because it has'nt had broon raping it senseless for the last 10 years.
it will recover quicker.
private health insurance is not excessively expensive and I would rather pay for that then spunk good money after bad on the uselessly inefficient NHS. its a fucking black hole.
anonymong - no one says Ireland is some utopia - we merely highlight some better ways of doing things - like education, corporate tax rates, and lack of huge NHS/welfare mong bill.
45 govt
I doubt very much if Gary Elsby actualy works.
What comes from stoke on Trent ? shite beer ,Robbie Williams and the Elsby mong.
They also specialise in making crappers, very fucking apt!
A shithole that manufactures shitters, shit beer and shits.
I've just spent £4.10 on a pint of beer and £6.50 on a packet of cigarettes.
"So What"
FTSE down 217 points IN ONE DAY!
Doubtless when Ed Balls saw this he enquired, "So what?"
Unless he sees it on Newsnight tonight, in which case it'll probably be reported as down 21.7 points, move along now, nothing to see here.
CPI announcement tomorrow up from 2.2% to 2.5%
Personally I blaim it on the muffins.
Quite what the REAL inflation figure is - I dunno. (state secret)
Do not despair though our economy is stable, Darling was keen to point this out repetitively, and that is sure to do the trick.
Elsby @ 11.26am:
FFS STOP TAKING THE WELFARE STATE FOR GRANTED!!!
Some of us HAVE suffered under this 'system' under ZaNuLabour and know that it stifles self-reliance and entrepreneurship.
I am sick and tired of having those who 'provide' me with benefits treat me like a brain-dead ZaNuLabour twonk. I WANT TO WORK!!! I WANT TO EARN MY OWN CASH!!
The trouble is that we've had God knows how many 'welfare reform ministers' since Frank Field (the ONLY decent one) take our taxes, talk shite and do FUCK ALL!!!
So please stop celebrating this shower of shite that passes as a 'Labour Government' and wake up and smell the coffee!!!
I want to work. I do NOT want dependency.
I want a hand up, NOT A HAND OUT!!!
Elsby, you are an unquestioning,
Labour supporting tossflap of the highest order.
Now fuck off and join Gay Gordo on his rocking horse.
Anon @ 3.18pm:
Good for Guido! If he stood for Parliament I'd vote for him!!!!
Happy St Paddy's Day to one and all!!
Have you put moderation back on Guido, or has the world gone down the pub?
"Guido sees Ireland as a economic utopia.
IT ISNT"
Agreed. Singapore and Hong Kong are more to my liking. Their tax rates are even lower and their economies even more deregulated.
"See scratch the surface, and the Tories and their supporters are still NASTY NASTY NASTY"
Why are we nasty for wanting to pay for our own healthcare? why is it not nasty to force other people to pay for your healthcare (which is what the NHS is about)? I don't want your money and I'd appreciate it if you would leave mine alone.
"*Moneterism was a failure; we can't do that crap again. Solutions? Gold standard,powerful industry, savings and investment. There are no alternatives; this is classical economic theory."
Monetarism was successful when it was tried properly in the early-mid 80s but Lawson cocked things up by changing the money supply measurements resulting in boom and bust. Agreed though that the best solution is gold standard etc. The time has come for the economics of Von Mises, Hayek and Rothbard.
Steady on shotgun - you miss the point of my post. Of course it is votes, but if you were a Labour candidate here, you could turn a Geordie out on to the street, shag his missus, poison his whippet and spit in his pint and he would still vote for you - at worst he would abstain. My point is that £110Bn of our money has been put at risk to prop up some jobs that will be lost anytime soon. the tragedy is that when the jobs are lost NuLabour will blame EU regulations and global financial meltdown (the latter with soem justification) and the local population will be even more firmly latched onto the public sector teat.
Ireland GDP per capita (US$ PPP) 2007 = $45,600, UK GDP per capita (same basis) 2007 = $35,300. Nuff said.
Free Tibet
Indigenous People Attacked By Government
There is country where the indigenous people are oppressed by a government that seeks to eradicate both them and their native culture.
This is a country that uses the police to terrorise and attack those that dare defy the governments will and where the way of life of the indigenous people is villified and abused.
This is a country where the national culture is being systematically displaced and destroyed and the indigenous people being driven from their own lands by hordes of immigrants.
This is a country where the following happens on a daily basis ;
1) National symbols and flags are banned and those wearing those symbols are liable to be arrested or lose their jobs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=387034&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20021208/ai_n12579670
2) The indigenous people who protest about the removal of their indigenous culture and traditions are violently attacked by the police and arrested
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/16/nprot16.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3661332.stm
3) The national culture is repressed, denigrated and banned
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/04/nprom204.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/04/nprom204.xml
4) Mass immigration is used to dispossess the indigenous majority and replace them
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=504354&in_page_id=1770
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nonwhite-people-to-become-majority-in-uk-cities-626793.html
5) Political opposition leaders are arrested and show trials held to terrify the public
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6137722.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/6135060.stm
6) The police and security services can spy on anyone they wish and remove their rights
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=484752&in_page_id=1770
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510991&in_page_id=1770
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/29/ntap129.xml
7) Corrupt political leaders live in luxury whilst the people grow poorer every day
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3549074.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/dec/01/uk.houseofcommons
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk_politics/2190653.stm
8) Foreign slave labour gangs are used to construct Olympic stadiums to show off the regimes power
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401417&in_page_id=1770
http://www.construct2012.co.uk/nav?page=construct2012.news.main&view_resource=5647218
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1560555.ece
9) Vote rigging and fraud are endemic in the political system and used to keep the regime in power
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4948232.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/jan/29/uk.politicalnews
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4406575.stm
10) The state media is a tool for political propaganda and is used to attack political parties that oppose the government
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3896921.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/3974731.stm
11) Immigrant voters are used to keep the government in power and dispossess the indigenous people
http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/03/17/old-gang-parties-play-the-polish-card-in-london/
http://www.obv.org.uk/
12) where the police are racist and run by convicted racist senior officers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4638331.stm
13) Where racial discrimination against the indigenous people is legal
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/25/nfire125.xml
14) Where the private political beliefs of an individual lead to attacks on them and their property
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5179408.stm
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2008/03/393779.html
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/released-information/foi-archive-crime/561-association-ofchief-police?version=1
This country is not Tibet - this country is Britain.
The Marxists of New Labour and the Marxists of the Communist Party of China are both the enemies of liberty and democracy.
Calm down people... I