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  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    Whistle-blowers are not dissimilar to the Communist informers who condemned their neighbours to the prison camps.

    TruckerT

    What about Paul Moore at HBOS?

    Paid off to keep quiet........
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    Whistle-blowers are not dissimilar to the Communist informers who condemned their neighbours to the prison camps.

    TruckerT

    nonsense of course but

    what's that got to do with politicians not being able to forecast the future (like everyone else)?
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Politicians.

    Mrs Thatcher was, above all else, a Politician!

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/4809284/FSA-head-Gordon-Brown-helped-fuel-banking-crisis.html

    The link dates from 2009 - we really have to move on from the idea that all will get back to normal sometime soon...

    TruckerT...
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    What about Paul Moore at HBOS?

    Paid off to keep quiet........

    A bullet would have been cheaper...

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    nonsense of course but

    what's that got to do with politicians not being able to forecast the future (like everyone else)?

    Life under Stalinism was pretty predictable.

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    Life under Stalinism was pretty predictable.

    TruckerT


    another load of rubbish
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    another load of rubbish

    How can the phrase 'life under Stalinism was pretty predictable' be described as rubbish?

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    well if you read the guardian article that you have referenced it says
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    It's nowhere near problematic enough to tip the overall residential book into making losses, let alone bring down the entire bank by itself.

    Both of those references were to the Co-op, not to Britannia, which was sold double-quick to the Co-op because it was in trouble - from mortgages, not commercial lending.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    edited 1 July 2013 at 9:47AM
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Politicians.



    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/4809284/FSA-head-Gordon-Brown-helped-fuel-banking-crisis.html

    When did banking deregulation really get under way?

    Didn't easy credit start flowing in the 80s/90s?
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

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  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/39/contents
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