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This is a link post Are hedge fund managers the Tories' trade unionists? - Rob Peston BBC blog
following on from last nights link: (which i cannot fucking find now, but it was a link to this: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century)

"...So it probably won't be especially easy for David Cameron to bat away as irrelevant the statistics published today by the independent Bureau of Investigative Journalism of the extent to which Conservative Party Central Office has become dependent on cash donations from companies and individuals working in financial services."
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 11:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Aren't hedge fund managers
just respectable bookmakers?

And I thought they were under VERY heavy scrutiny now, following the Goldman Sachs business, where they advised some investors to make things they KNEW were going to fail, because they telling others to back the other way?
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 11:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post read the guardian article
project merlin is kinda on hold

this is the link from last night : b3ta.com/links/Tories_revert_to_traditioanl_methods (goes to guardian article)
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 11:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post yeah, saw that yesterday
A blogger tried to portray this as a GOOD thing for the economy.
My reaction is, if it's such a good thing why is Gideon not shouting about how much good it will do, instead of trying really hard not to talk about it (it didn't even get a mention on BBC news last night)
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 11:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post project vermin still very much on track

(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't think they're under much more scrutiny than
they ever were, unfortunately. And Goldman Sachs are notorious for playing both sides of a bet/selling stuff on under false pretenses. It's all a bit of a regulatory wasteland, still, unfortunately.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 11:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post shock horror
rich people make the rules.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 12:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post Shock horror
Rich people got / stay rich by manipulating the country such that everyone else pays off the debt.

This has the added bonus of keeping the populous just that bit worse off, just that bit closer to the breadline, so that they have to worry about themselves all the time and literally can't afford to protest, rise up or otherwise complain effectively.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^this

(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post The "populous" gets into debt on their credit cards and stupid overpriced houses.
They should sort their own life out instead of complaining about "bankers", who they apparently had no quarrel with when times were good.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post We had no quarrel due to ignorance
And I'm talking of national debt, not personal debt.

And I'm alluding to the massive role tax avoidance plays in making all us proles poorer to pay it, when we are supposedly "all in it together".

And it rubs salt in to the wound that privitisation means the government getting us in to more debt by sponsoring our biggest companies to do their work for them, when those companies fully intend to contribute zero to paying our debt.

Kinda makes all those special offers you've taken advantage of down Tesco seem a bit hollow, dunnit? Never thought those cheap baked beans would cost you your house, didja?

Now we're no longer ignorant and find it hurts each and every one of us, we should do something about it.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 16:08, , Reply)