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    pardon my klatchian Member al Roumi's Avatar
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    Default Re: What's going on in London?

    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
    oh dear, where to start?
    Pitchforks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by al Roumi View Post
    Pitchforks.
    I think we can do better than that.

    Who took financial control from the Bank of England and gave it to the FSA?

    Who sold off the nations gold reserve when the price of gold was at it's lowest?

    Who flagged up such a sale months before, thus depressing the market further?

    Who decided to spend 25% more than was raised in tax receipts?

    Who decided to raise the upper band of taxation to 50%, in spite of the fact that doing so would again lower tax revenue?

    Who decided to knee the poorest in the balls by doubling their tax threshold?

    How's that for starters?
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

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    It's about time the brits take the streets to show banksters and traders that things can't keep going that way.

    What is really ridiculous though is the wave of "lolz those anarchists burnt stuff and get money from their daddies". Because obviously, all the protesters were
    a - anarchists and rioters
    b - spoiled kids.

    Maybe if you keep singing it, you'll change reality.

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    Default Re: What's going on in London?

    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post

    Who took financial control from the Bank of England and gave it to the FSA?
    I would disagree with that being wrong, often central banks can have a problem in that there supposed to watch systemic risk AND regulate the products they sell like mortgages etc etc. Sometimes central banks can forget the consumer interest in the defence of the overall banking interest, hiving off various types of regulation can be a good idea as then the central bank is purely about systemic risk.
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