Hey Guv can you lend us a fiver?

[Serial_Apologist]

i am a prole

But a good prole model....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

working stiffs

[greenilex]

Women are organising, believe you me.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Falling incomes will mean the biggest drop for middle-income families since the 1970s, says a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

topline story on BBC News this morning

we are all in this but not together

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS

This is information that I think our friends on Wall Street did not want to come out. It is supposed to be top secret information. And in fact, many of the folks on Wall Street were very disturbed that we made it public.

The reason that we made it public is we wanted to end this debate about whether or not excessive oil speculation is driving up gas and oil prices.

The answer is, when you have companies like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley owning and buying and selling hundreds of millions of barrels of oil, dominating the oil futures market, there is no more debate. Excessive speculation is one of the reasons the price of oil is where it is today.

We have got to do what Congress passed legislation to do, and that is mandate that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission end excessive speculation, and have limits on how much these companies can own.

from here an interesting read in our troubled times

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well HMR&C can slip Goldman Sachs a £10m greaser ... but they arbitrarily demanded some £3k in back tax by automatic deduction because they got the coding wrong [no discussion, despite endless calls to dreadful call centres, no evidence] and are now taking a lump sum per month for two years from someone who earns the minimum wage as a part time teaching assistant ... and there are thousands of cases like this where HMR&C is gouging revenue from the poor and lower paid as well as others because HMR&C did not correctly assess the tax liability ... they claim but will not prove ...


record unemployment today ...
is the fox gay
which gets the column inches?

[Serial_Apologist]

record unemployment today ...
is the fox gay
which gets the column inches?

Is the guy stupid? - or is the attitude one of such arrogance that "I don't give a toss what people think of me or who I go about with, their connections, my connections, or where the money comes from"?? After all the dirt that's been dished over unsullied reputations during the recent past, one would have thought someone might at least have asked!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

what it boils down to is this .... a blight, a liquidation of social capital to keep the casino in business


and it leaves people making their own cuts in spending to the detriment of uk economic prospects and the alleviation of increasing poverty

these PPE and History ex SPADDIES just don't get it .... all their pals work in the casino ..... [some of their families own chunks of it]

an abstract evil [deficit] posed as necessity and a spectacle of fiscal rectitude masking interest; result misery

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

now this is interesting ..

[teamsaint]

no no no....we NEED the city, we need the wealth they create.

We need currency speculators, we need commodity markets and the rises in oil and food prices that they have created.

We need greedy corporations and their land grab...because they are the ones who will create jobs. Right. Right?

Think I need the last beer in the fridge......

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

we NEED the city

...even the Torygraph is getting the message teamsaint ...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...e-a-point.html

[teamsaint]

...even the Torygraph is getting the message teamsaint ...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...e-a-point.html

There have been a number of very interesting articles in the telegraph over the last few months, including one that pointed out the dangers of handing yet more control of the economy over to the B of E.

Perhaps even the relatively cozy and affluent world of the telegraph is starting to feel under threat.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

after Argentina defaulted, it set out to make ordinary people better off and has the best growth record of the western economies .... it also told the IMF and the corporate shareholder world to feck off ..... i am an Argentinian

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

whereas the Torygraph continues to stick it to 'em ..... the discussion below the article is priceless as a document of our current difficulties

[teamsaint]

after Argentina defaulted, it set out to make ordinary people better off and has the best growth record of the western economies .... it also told the IMF and the corporate shareholder world to feck off ..... i am an Argentinian

If we stay within the bounds of orthodox economics, lets just imagine the boost to the economy(and most peoples lives) if the £75 Bn quantatitive easing has been put in our pockets rather than put into the banks balance sheets.........
Happy Xmas indeed.
We are here to serve our masters the banks......, and we had better protest or get used to it