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old skoool

BBW

1956..pah, our songs from the 1920s

I've a few loose tiles and what with the forecast any chance you can come round and sort them out? There's a drink in it.

Never bet on the scum

..found my primary school from 1969!

..if you can't beat Tranmere....

100......sweet

No. You mean the press try and take credit for things? I can't believe that....

I think the influence of the press is a bit over-egged to be honest. All a bit studenty..."the stupid proles conned by the murdoch empire" etc etc

...a lucky escape today by not getting online for my bet on the 2000

Indeed. The most bigotry I hear nowadays, given that I largely hang with liberal metropolitans, is about the white working class and people of 'middle england'....education's nowt to do with it...people just tend to be bigoted and generalise and stereotype about people they don't 'know', although of course for liberals, this bigotry isn't allowed about certain groups so they just stick with the ones they can be bigoted about. Personally, I'm very bigoted about the liberal Guardinstas......

So leaveriging up yourself massively to make risky trades, as an investment bank Lehmans did, isn't risky?

Pure class...... ...nuffink to do with me

I think Vince Cable is being hailed as a genius because he called the Bust. This was good and he was among a few dissenting voices but he does seem a bit of a one trick pony in that sense not seen him adding much to that one piece of foresight.

But bonusing on share prices also has 'issues' *Bob*, cause and effect...most senior management and directors in FTSE companies in more traditional industries get bonused on annual share performance. The easiest way to get a decent share price is increase profits - if you can't do this by innovation/R&D etc (all long term investments) then the easiest way of doing this is cutting costs normally acheived by cutting your less skilled 'domestic ' workforce,by outsourcing to cheaper third world and developing economies and by reducing customer service eg using call centres, reducing cabin staff (BA) and shop staff for self-checkouts (all of the big reatailers) squuezing third party suppliers with huge buying power (Tescos et al again)...etc etc. Im beginning to revisit Marx and will continue to shop down the co-op...see ya in the queue.

I think reducing some of the bonus payments to shares makes sense *Bob* and if we can genuienely get Global Reform that'd make sense too. But some of the mad things people say about what we should be doing to the evil banks would have left them as basket cases, our 'investments' well in the red and our economy right down the sh1tter given our over reliance on Financial Services, consumer spending and houseprice inflation. I'd like to see proper incentives put in place in areas like renewable energy to try and rebalance our economy.

Of course the banks are somewhat culpuble but if we'd had all the restraints on them we'd not have had the boom in the first place and the massive increase in public spending, public sector salaries, house prices, and economic growth that was benefiting nearly all of us. As it happens if we'd not had that boom it maybe would have been far better than the 5-10 years of pain we've now got ahead of us from deleaveiging from this 'success' but the politically driven excuse and naive acceptance by so many that without the rotten bankers the whole caboodle would have been going along nicely thankly IS scapegoating in the worse Daily Mail sense. Basically we're going back to reality and that's about 1997 and that includes reducing the exprbitant rise in Public Spending too. TO be absolutely clear I'm not a banker, never have been and never been in receipt of a city bonus.

4/10, needs more work

I fondly remember the last time Fulham were in a Final

The polls have Cameron winning, Clegg second and...you guessed it

at 5s? A guaranteed profit for a wise man.......

The dog or the poster?

The dog's name was Pickles....do we not have a poster called Pickles?