I apologise for this post in advance to everyone because I don't like posting political stuff as a general rule but our present Govt & in particular that loathsome smirking liar Gordon (Kiss My Arse) Brown has got me so incensed that I felt I needed to express myself for once.
Dealing with purely the financial incompetance to start with: His mantra that he has a "safe pair of hands" is ludicrous given his history. This is just some of it.:
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We used to have 6 independent regulators to regulate the different divisions of the financial services industry, including our Banks.
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(Margaret Thatcher knew what the Banks were like and in the 1988 Finance Act she bound the Banks up in regulation to prevent them from being reckless!!!)
Then Brown became Chancellor on 6th May 1997
Brown's banker friends said "We want all these regulators to go"
"We don't want regulators watching everything we do"
AND BROWN SAID ‘OK’
So, Brown announced on the 20th May 1997 (2 weeks after becoming Chancellor) that the six regulatory bodies would be broken up and a new Financial Services Authority would replace them. The FSA had virtually no powers over the Banks and he also took away the powers from the Bank of England to enforce regulation on them.
The result is the devastation we are all suffering today.
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We used to have a Monopolies and Mergers CommissionThen Brown's banker friends said we don't want the Monopolies and Mergers commission telling us who we can and can’t "Take Over"
AND BROWN SAID ‘OK’So, in 1998 Brown scrapped the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and created a replacement called the Competition Commission, with very much reduced powers and different ideas of what used to be regarded as a "Monopoly".
The result is the Massive Corporations we have today who are ruling and shaping our lives for their own benefit and profits. Not to mention the massive Monopolies held by some of these corporations through the forced purchases of all their competitors
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We used to have pension regulations, which for many decades had included something called "The Pensions Cap"
The pensions cap set a limit on how much pension any scheme member (including directors) could get from an occupational pension scheme,
irrespective of how high their earnings were.
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It was there to protect the ordinary members pensions. To prevent Directors paying themselves obscene salaries and then draining the pension funds with huge pensions.
Then Brown Brown's banker friends said that they wanted the pensions cap removing so that they could get pensions related to their obscene earnings.
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(The whole Pensions industry gave him warnings of the effects it would have. Even the Inland revenue put forward objections)
BUT BROWN SAID ‘OK’<o></o>
Because Brown never likes to disappoint his banker friends
So Brown took away the Pensions Cap in 2005 and then some of his Friends were able to leave their boardroom positions with huge pensions!!!
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For example Fred Goodwin was apparently entitled to a pension of over £700,000
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If Brown had left the pensions cap in place that would have been a mere £125,000.So well done Fred and all your Fat Cat mates.
(The Superannuation's Division of the Inland Revenue have kept a record of what it should be, in readiness for when we get a new chancellor who sees fit to re-instate it. George Osborn has pledged to do that). The record of Pensions Cap limits are available to view on the Revenue's website
The result of this is that along with Brown's "Tax Raid" on pension funds starting July 1997, over four thousand UK company pension scheme's have closed their doors to new members and many of them have had to close down altogether, leaving millions of workers without any pension provision.
This man Brown professes to be a “socialist” and "for" the working man
The working man's main form of long term financial security had for many years been his company pension scheme, something to look forward to at the end of a life of hard work, his reward, light at the end of a long dark tunnel.
Brown has put an end to that by destroying the most valuable <o></o>
asset of the average British worker.
IT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST TRAVESTIES OF JUSTICE THAT THIS MAN WHO PRETENDS TO BE "FOR THE WORKING MAN" HAS IN FACT BEEN HIS WORST ENEMY FOR THE LAST THIRTEEN YEARS AND WILL LEAVE A LEGACY THAT WE WILL STILL BE CLEARING UP FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
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THE REAL INJUSTICE IS THAT ITS ALL BEEN DONE IN AREAS WHICH ARE TOTALLY OUT OF SIGHT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND BEYOND THE UNDERSTANDING OF MANY
BROWN RELIES ENTIRELY ON PEOPLES IGNORANCE TO GET AWAY WITH
HIS INDISCRETIONS
BROWN'S MOTTO OF:
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"DENY EVERYTHING AND ADMIT NOTHING" has kept him in power thus far, but the writing is on the wall.
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FINALLY - WHAT BROWN LIKES TO CALL THE "GLOBAL BANKING CRISIS"
Have you noticed that we were the first to be in it and are the last to be out (and whether we are out is very speculative!!!)
As he has openly admitted, The Royal Bank of Scotland was the world’s biggest bank.
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So when RBS and HBOS were about to go BUST in October 2008 and they had to be bailed out overnight so they did not take the entire country down with them, (that by the way was almost certainly a decision made by the hierarchy in Whitehall for which Brown loves to take the credit)
As the world’s leading banks now all lend money to each other on a colossal scale, isn't it obvious that the world’s biggest bank going down would have a devastating effect on all the others it dealt with.
This "world’s biggest bank" had also sold bad mortgage books to other banks.
Most of the Banks in Europe which ran into crisis were dragged into it because of the crooked dealings of our big Banks. A fact that both Germany and France were quick to remind Brown of at the G20 emergency meeting shortly after the crisis.
There are many other of Brown's indiscretions, far too many to list here, but perhaps the main ones shown above will give some insight into how Brown operates.
By the way have you noticed how he has suddenly become interested in Social issues now an election is looming and seems to be able to promise the world when, as Alistair Darling put it a few days ago, there is not a penny left in the bank!!!
Think very carefully before casting your vote for this man who is probably the most extreme capitalist of the past century while masquerading as a champion "for the working man".
WHAT IS CERTAIN IS THAT BROWN WORSHIPS THE SUPER RICH AND POWERFUL AND CANNOT SAY NO TO THEM – THE TYPICAL “NEW LABOUR” POLITICS OF GREED AND ENVY.<o></o>
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Please help consign this gang to the dumpster of history on May 6th
Apologies for the rant - but these people are unspeakable.. :veryangry:
Dealing with purely the financial incompetance to start with: His mantra that he has a "safe pair of hands" is ludicrous given his history. This is just some of it.:
<FONT size=3>Just a few interesting facts about Brown & “New Labour”<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
></o>We used to have 6 independent regulators to regulate the different divisions of the financial services industry, including our Banks.
<o
></o>(Margaret Thatcher knew what the Banks were like and in the 1988 Finance Act she bound the Banks up in regulation to prevent them from being reckless!!!)
Then Brown became Chancellor on 6th May 1997
Brown's banker friends said "We want all these regulators to go"
"We don't want regulators watching everything we do"
AND BROWN SAID ‘OK’
So, Brown announced on the 20th May 1997 (2 weeks after becoming Chancellor) that the six regulatory bodies would be broken up and a new Financial Services Authority would replace them. The FSA had virtually no powers over the Banks and he also took away the powers from the Bank of England to enforce regulation on them.
The result is the devastation we are all suffering today.
--------------------------------------
We used to have a Monopolies and Mergers CommissionThen Brown's banker friends said we don't want the Monopolies and Mergers commission telling us who we can and can’t "Take Over"
AND BROWN SAID ‘OK’So, in 1998 Brown scrapped the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and created a replacement called the Competition Commission, with very much reduced powers and different ideas of what used to be regarded as a "Monopoly".
The result is the Massive Corporations we have today who are ruling and shaping our lives for their own benefit and profits. Not to mention the massive Monopolies held by some of these corporations through the forced purchases of all their competitors
-------------------------------------
We used to have pension regulations, which for many decades had included something called "The Pensions Cap"
The pensions cap set a limit on how much pension any scheme member (including directors) could get from an occupational pension scheme,
irrespective of how high their earnings were.
<o
></o>It was there to protect the ordinary members pensions. To prevent Directors paying themselves obscene salaries and then draining the pension funds with huge pensions.
Then Brown Brown's banker friends said that they wanted the pensions cap removing so that they could get pensions related to their obscene earnings.
<o
></o>(The whole Pensions industry gave him warnings of the effects it would have. Even the Inland revenue put forward objections)
BUT BROWN SAID ‘OK’<o
></o>Because Brown never likes to disappoint his banker friends
So Brown took away the Pensions Cap in 2005 and then some of his Friends were able to leave their boardroom positions with huge pensions!!!
<o
></o>For example Fred Goodwin was apparently entitled to a pension of over £700,000
<o
></o>If Brown had left the pensions cap in place that would have been a mere £125,000.So well done Fred and all your Fat Cat mates.
(The Superannuation's Division of the Inland Revenue have kept a record of what it should be, in readiness for when we get a new chancellor who sees fit to re-instate it. George Osborn has pledged to do that). The record of Pensions Cap limits are available to view on the Revenue's website
The result of this is that along with Brown's "Tax Raid" on pension funds starting July 1997, over four thousand UK company pension scheme's have closed their doors to new members and many of them have had to close down altogether, leaving millions of workers without any pension provision.
This man Brown professes to be a “socialist” and "for" the working man
The working man's main form of long term financial security had for many years been his company pension scheme, something to look forward to at the end of a life of hard work, his reward, light at the end of a long dark tunnel.
Brown has put an end to that by destroying the most valuable <o
></o>asset of the average British worker.
IT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST TRAVESTIES OF JUSTICE THAT THIS MAN WHO PRETENDS TO BE "FOR THE WORKING MAN" HAS IN FACT BEEN HIS WORST ENEMY FOR THE LAST THIRTEEN YEARS AND WILL LEAVE A LEGACY THAT WE WILL STILL BE CLEARING UP FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
<o
></o>THE REAL INJUSTICE IS THAT ITS ALL BEEN DONE IN AREAS WHICH ARE TOTALLY OUT OF SIGHT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND BEYOND THE UNDERSTANDING OF MANY
BROWN RELIES ENTIRELY ON PEOPLES IGNORANCE TO GET AWAY WITH
HIS INDISCRETIONS
BROWN'S MOTTO OF:
<o
></o>"DENY EVERYTHING AND ADMIT NOTHING" has kept him in power thus far, but the writing is on the wall.
----------------------------------------
FINALLY - WHAT BROWN LIKES TO CALL THE "GLOBAL BANKING CRISIS"
Have you noticed that we were the first to be in it and are the last to be out (and whether we are out is very speculative!!!)
As he has openly admitted, The Royal Bank of Scotland was the world’s biggest bank.
<o
></o>So when RBS and HBOS were about to go BUST in October 2008 and they had to be bailed out overnight so they did not take the entire country down with them, (that by the way was almost certainly a decision made by the hierarchy in Whitehall for which Brown loves to take the credit)
As the world’s leading banks now all lend money to each other on a colossal scale, isn't it obvious that the world’s biggest bank going down would have a devastating effect on all the others it dealt with.
This "world’s biggest bank" had also sold bad mortgage books to other banks.
Most of the Banks in Europe which ran into crisis were dragged into it because of the crooked dealings of our big Banks. A fact that both Germany and France were quick to remind Brown of at the G20 emergency meeting shortly after the crisis.
There are many other of Brown's indiscretions, far too many to list here, but perhaps the main ones shown above will give some insight into how Brown operates.
By the way have you noticed how he has suddenly become interested in Social issues now an election is looming and seems to be able to promise the world when, as Alistair Darling put it a few days ago, there is not a penny left in the bank!!!
Think very carefully before casting your vote for this man who is probably the most extreme capitalist of the past century while masquerading as a champion "for the working man".
WHAT IS CERTAIN IS THAT BROWN WORSHIPS THE SUPER RICH AND POWERFUL AND CANNOT SAY NO TO THEM – THE TYPICAL “NEW LABOUR” POLITICS OF GREED AND ENVY.<o
></o><o
></o>Please help consign this gang to the dumpster of history on May 6th
Apologies for the rant - but these people are unspeakable.. :veryangry:
