U KIP if you want to, I'm voting Labour.

Morglin

I'm hacked off with all the major parties at the moment, but as I feel Labour have done more good than harm, I shall probably vote for them (anything is better than the Tories!).

Lin

RobertoMoir

bryanb wrote: »

I am happy to blame Brown for the state of the British economy, But the collapse of the Icelandic banks?

Well it isn't like we directly pushed their dominos over, however, their banking crash was due to the crash of the worldwide markets and ALL the major governments including ours, played a role in the events that precipitated this particular recession.

Gordon Brown has a responsibility here. Not that of someone whose actions individually directly caused something, but the share of the responsibility you'd give to a car driver who was one of many driving a little too close to others and a little too fast for the conditions prior to a multi car pileup on the motorway.

aliasojo

bryanb wrote: »

This government saved 50% of my and my wife's savings from melting away with the Icelandic banking system. There was no obligation for them to do so.
I have never voted Labour before, I am doing it purely out of gratitude. Anyone else feel the same?

bryanb wrote: »

Brown may have got the country into this mess, but, me personally, and Icesavers in general- he rescued.

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you here but it seems to me you can happily overlook the bigger picture about the state the country is in (which you are part of and therefore affected by), to focus on one particular instance where you feel you've been helped? With respect, isn't that a little narrow minded? I wonder how many other voters vote with one thing in mind only?

codger

As one of the many UK taxpayers who has "saved" that 50% of the OP's savings which would otherwise have been squandered due to his rush to grab the highest interest rate possible from a bank not regulated by the FSA. . .

. . . I'm not at all surprised the OP is going to vote Labour.

A party which, in Government, has recklessly put political self-interest above everything else certainly merits the support of those whose pursuit of personal self-interest has been precisely the same.

Doesn't the OP have the slightest inkling of just where "the Government" has found the money to save him from the consequences of his own venality?

And why a post such as this should inflame all those hard working families who were prudent enough with their meagre savings (that's probably a Labour copyright phrase, by the way) not to go for the easiest, quickest buck but instead sacrifice a few percentage points of interest. . .

. . . Only to find they've now lost out twice: first on the interest rates, and then on pumping money into the pockets of individuals like the OP.

The gratuitously objectionable (and entirely misplaced) title of this thread notwithstanding, I do have to say it's one of the most nauseating I've ever encountered on MSE.

:mad:

daveboy

bryanb wrote: »

This government saved 50% of my and my wife's savings from melting away with the Icelandic banking system. There was no obligation for them to do so.
I have never voted Labour before, I am doing it purely out of gratitude. Anyone else feel the same?

A wasted vote. Congratulations.

RobertoMoir

codger wrote: »

Doesn't the OP have the slightest inkling of just where "the Government" has found the money to save him from the consequences of his own venality?

I wonder what they'll think of the govt's "Rob Peter to pay Paul" strategy when they realise they pay tax too and they're actually Peter AND Paul.

codger

daveboy wrote: »

A wasted vote. Congratulations.

Sadly in this era of Government spin -- and Labour has been more assiduous in that regard than Reichsmaster Goebbels ever was -- there's really no way of telling when a post in any Internet forum has actually been placed by a Party hack.

So the comment about "a wasted vote" may -- may -- be irrelevant because the thread has achieved its objective anyway: a political swipe at one of the many parties Labour is now running so scared of.

Of course the OP could indeed be genuine. And of course the OP could also be so epically naive as to believe "the Government" has a pot of money that it hasn't obtained from the taxpayer.

Whatever the case, the thread is wonderfully mistimed:

Here's an MSEr who announces he will happily vote for a political party within whose membership is Frank Cook, Labour MP for Stockton on Tees, whose claim for the reimbursement of the fiver he put in the collection box at a Battle of Britain remembrance church service really does say it all. . .

One wonders if Mr Cook was also an IceSaver who "the Government" so thoughtfully bailed out?

Spartacus_Mills

bryanb wrote: »

This government saved 50% of my and my wife's savings from melting away with the Icelandic banking system. There was no obligation for them to do so.
I have never voted Labour before, I am doing it purely out of gratitude. Anyone else feel the same?

No.

They caused the problems we are currently enduring.

The government used anti-terror legislation to seize assets of Icelandic banks which is disgusting. They are our friends. You and your wife were seduced by greed and we have to pay for your stupidity. You should have took your chances and endured your loss rather than having those of us who played it safer for a couple of less percent having to bail your pathetic sorry asses out of it.

seven-day-weekend

Although I live in Spain, I have a vote in European and Parliamentary elections.

For most of my life I have been a Labour voter, (although I did vote for Margaret Thatcher's Government once and have voted Green/Other on occasions in Europeans), this time I shall ask my proxy to vote Conservative on my behalf in the Europeans.

The Conservative Candidate for my European Constituency seems the best of the Candidates.

If there were a General Election, I would be voting Tory in that too, as I think Cameron has shown good leadership recently.

(Never had anything in Iceland I'm glad to say - always seemed far too risky to me!).

bryanb

I seem to have provoked a lively discussion, but where are the other folks who contributed so much to the Icesave threads a few short months ago?
I am aware that the Government funded the rescue using money from financial institutions, who in turn charge it up to their customers.
I object to the phrase "your stupidity" used to describe me earlier. Perhaps we could have a discussion without resorting to base insults.