Is Obama just bluffing?

Is it just a co-incidence that,  now Obama can no longer force through legislation,   he’s brought up the issues to deal with the banks?  With little chance of getting through, the little people that funded half of his election costs (with their dollar or two) will not feel so aggrieved and the big people who [...]

No-one to win next UK General Election!

The newly-formed “no-one” Party (New One-Off NonEntities) look set to take the country over in the forthcoming General Election in the UK.  In pretty much every previous election, more people have voted for no-one than for any other party.  No-one has noticed this – and so it has formed a party so that voters can [...]

Please go, Gordon!

Kalvis Jansons, who started this petition said “There are many reasons why we might want Brown to resign, but rather than having lots of narrow petitions on this topic (most of which have been rejected), I wanted one for all of us“. There are nearly 9,000 signatories already. Thanks to Guido for [...]

Giving anarchy a bad name

Media coverage for the upcoming G20 protests in London – especially for “Financial Fools Day” seems intent on branding anarchists as the bad guys – but how much are they in control? On the one hand is the suggestion that they are are a bunch of deadbeat layabouts. And yet it’s proposed that [...]

Endgame for the financial crisis

What is the endgame for the financial crisis and was it deliberate?
Is it the crash in the property and stock market?
Is it the repossession of peoples homes?
Is it the levels of redundancies and unemployment?
Is it the implementation of a Global Banking System or New World Order?
Is it the control of individuals by reducing their freedoms [...]

Financial Fools Day

Maybe people are starting to get a little angry now. During what could be the most expensive police operation in British history protesters could provide a real sense-of-humour test for the authorities.
Commander Bob Broadhurst, who is responsible for the operation (with a bill estimated at up to £10 million) said, [...]

What's happened to the BBC blogs?

All the comments and contributors have disappeared this morning from the BBC blogs! A clean slate for everyone? Or is it just me that’s not allowed to see them any more?

New coalition launches Post Bank campaign

As the Government struggles to get to grips with the financial crisis, a comprehensive proposal for a new ‘Post Bank’ to run as part of the Post Office Network is launched today (Tuesday 17 March) by a new coalition of trade unions, a business organisation, pensioner and pressure groups and charities.

The proposal for the Post [...]

Withdrawal symptoms

In January of this year £2.3 billion was withdrawn from personal bank accounts and a further £0.4 billion from building societies. Figures for February should be out in the next couple of weeks. It sounds like a lot of money until you consider that johnny-foreigner withdrew about £380 billion from the UK in [...]

A New Bank ??

Alexander Curzon is looking into setting up a new bank. Here is my understanding of the proposals:
The idea is to run current accounts only – no lending, no speculataion – just a boring safe haven!
Multi Currency Accounts should be possible – the concept is ZERO risk so no interest would be payable.
Any venture [...]