Brendan

Magpie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bankers are a suitable target for the > unsophisticated, the naive, and the stupid. Substitute, ?Those who don?t agree with my point of view which is based on a vested interest? Well played.

No it?s not that simple or that simply solved but when you?re talking about people being disproportionately remunerated because of artificially created, disproportionate inflation in the property market who then in turn have used the situation to grab disproportionately high shares of the property market, the reaction you?re going to get from any right thinking individuals is very simple. It starts with an F and ends in off.

Fuck ?em. A ?2500 cash bonus would be very welcome to 90% of the population. Why should petulant investment bankers feel they deserve more? Their pay is already disproportionate to other industries. Now if only we had that sort of leverage with lawyers.

And the rest is caviar.

ooooh, get you.;-)

I think that would also go someway towards restoring public faith in politicians. If they showed a genuine will to work together for the good of the country putting their filthy, party power struggles aside.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ANyway, nothing the lib dems can do to get into > power, in the past it hasn't really mattered that > 20% of the vote equaled not many seats, but now > thanks to decades of dodgy gerrymandering we face > the very real prospect of 2nd place popular vote > equaling not many seats. And 3rd place popular > vote forming the government. > Crazy. Why are you surprised? If you take the population, eliminate the bastards and the idiots you will have about 20% left.

But perhaps enough with the praises for good Uncle Vincent here. It?s making me feel a bit worried. Whenever someone in power seems in the least bit genuine they inevitably end up being a lying bastard.

Or just go with Ian Hislop when ask if he would stand for any political party saying if he was forced at gun point it would be the "Vince Cable for Treasurer Party? That coming from the editor of the only trustworthy paper in the country.

I also wasn?t particularly defending the Lib Dems on this. In fact they advised their MPs that there was (I think the term was) considerable scope when applying for expenses. Just pointing out that their transgressions weren't nearly as, shall we say, cheeky.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Edited to say - Clegg has just confirmed the ?2500 > maximum bonus for bankers - he and Cable are just > completely out of touch.... I think there?s an entire country that exists outside of the city of London that will argue it?s the bankers who are out of touch. Not that I really want to get into the party vs party slagging match but when it come to the chancellors who actually has the worthwhile financial knowledge and experience, a mediocre policy wonk who made a career in the Tory party for himself riding on the back of his family?s influence, a lawyer turned professional politician or a guy with a PhD in economics who was the head economist for Shell?

For the comedy value I suppose.

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Well she does have bigger tits. > > They were reduced in Iceland. There's a financial crisis/volcano joke in there somewhere. Give us a minute.

Well she does have bigger tits.

Wow! You saw the guy from Wings.

Rubber balls. If it?s windy you?re going to need rubber balls.

Poverty is a relative concept. From my personal experience someone living on ?5 a month on a subsistence farm in a village in Africa with the support of a basic local school, clean water and access to a clinic leads a far less deprived life than someone with an unemployed single mother living off benefits in SE London. Granted they don?t have access to all the bells and whistles and if they get sick they may well die but when it comet to inclusion, sense of purpose and their general place and worthiness in the society they live in they are far better off. Disillusionment, crime, abuse and the various other ills caused by poverty are far less prevalent. And that?s not even getting into the economics of how people with higher amounts of buying power push prices up and make basic necessities further out of reach of those with less. Just because you?ve provided the masses with their bread and circuses doesn?t mean there is no poverty.

Yeah. What?s she complaining about? Poverty my foot! Jealousy more like it. Anyway how could a single mother of 11 possibly know anything about what?s good for society?

Commie!

Oh fuck the poor. Our lords and masters elect will shut them up.

Apart from the fact that it?s a xenophobic smear campaign its based on complete bull shit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1266826/The-United-Nations-Nick-Clegg.html

We are speaking about the same paper which ran an article basically saying that he is foreign and therefore unfit to govern the country.

With that you?re in danger of losing an awful lot of votes to the Greens.

Why not bail out Greece and in return all Germans get 2 nights free on their next holiday in Greece and a complementary plate of souvlaki. May be an election winner.

Yeah I know. I don?t for a minute believe that given a free reign on power they wouldn?t end up just as bad. (Or more accurately would attract the sort of member who will be dishonest) But they don?t for now which is part of the attraction.