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POPSUK Rushes Bailout Plan for Troubled Banks UK moves to nationalize struggling banks. Sounds like a run on a few banks in the UK could strap them for cash. Do they have the equivalent of FDIC, are the people accounts insured by the government? The moves are to provide enough "cash on hand for day to day operations"--i.e. consumer withdrawals: To address the collapse of confidence in money markets, the standby facility should ensure big banks have enough cash to fund day-to-day operations.
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POPSThe Indy is wrong on bent politician Undeclared £300.000 loan from a colleague. Passports for the Induja mafia. Easy access for Brazil nut crusher...has everyone forgotten? So Dear Peter has kidney stones? He ought to have several ounces of lead.
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POPSMajor Bank Bailout Merger in UK; UK Mirrors US in Financial Crisis Merger of Lloyds and Halifax Bank of Scotland will create a superbank accounting for about one third of UK mortgages. Prime Minister Gordon Brown pushed the deal. While this UK bank merger would consolidate power vs. increase competition, at least UK government, unlike America's government with Freddie and Fannie and AIG, did not have to bailout ailing Halifax using taxpayer money or nationalize it. Note the total job loss worried about from this massive merger, and the dominoe effect anticipated. The article points out that the US bank troubles are not yet over: Meanwhile, the independent futures of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were in doubt after shares in the last surviving investment banks came under attack in New York trading.
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POPSWhen Barack's Berserkers Lost The Plot
'I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion,' she said as she deftly detached journalists from their readers and viewers. 'I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country.' In Britain, the most snobbish attacks on Margaret Thatcher did not come from aristocrats but from the communist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who opined that Thatcherism was the 'anarchism of the lower middle classes'. George Osborne, of the supposedly compassionate Conservative party, revealed himself to be a playground bully when he derided Gordon Brown for being 'faintly autistic'. In an age when politics is choreographed, voters watch out for the moments when the public-relations facade breaks down and venom pours through the cracks. Their judgment is rarely favourable when it does. Obama knows it. He was warning American liberals to stay away from the Palin family. He understands better than his supporters that it is not a politician's enemies who lose elections, but his friends.
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POPSPolly finally sees the light This overpaid reflector of Champagne socialism has eventually seen what millions of others have known for a decade. Labour is corrupt of ideas, corrupt of honesty, corrupt of principals. Having joined the Conservatives in the bathroom of immorality, they have ousted their enemy in the depth of deceit they have achieved in their years of office. Unfortunately the examples of their corruption are so numerous and so well practised that it does not deserve repeat. Go now and take all those corrupt pigs from every party with you.
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POPSUN: Georgians Effectively Blocked from Homes On Saturday, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the chamber's foreign relations committee, visited Gori to observe the distribution of U.S. food aid. Asked whether the United States was considering new military aid, Corker said "these subjects are part of a longer and mid-term discussion" when Congress reconvenes in September. Russia supplies the EU with about a third of its oil and about two-fifths of its natural gas. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said European nations should adopt a united energy policy to avoid becoming too dependent on Russia. He said the EU nations should "use our collective bargaining power." "Without urgent action we risk sleepwalking into an energy dependance on less stable or reliable partners," Brown wrote in The Observer newspaper. Brown said he spoke with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev by telephone Saturday, and told the Russian leader "to expect a determined European response" to the crisis.
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POPSTerror threat against Brown The only thing that Brown should be afraid of is the electorate. Would anyone want to vote for him? Yes! The dumb, the stupid, the ignorant, other MP's with self interests. As his party is not available to the ordinary man on the Clapham bus, maybe wanting to kill him is not at variance to public opinion? But going through with it is an anathema. Brown is killing his party dead, destroying this once great nation, murdering RIGHTS, annihilating responsibility. Only a dumb fuck immigrant won't understand that.
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POPSUK: Safe in our cages? "As surely as night follows day, the new surveillance society will do more harm than good." Says it all, I guess
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POPSLondon's mayor says Britain is not broken The current political mood of Britain is irrational. The government is suffering from the Mother of all Swings of the Pendulum. I think time is the only healer here. On September 28th one international commentator said that "Gordon Brown is the star of the UN". Yet he is villified in his own country, explain on one side of A4.
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POPSLabour rotting away?
The only person I have heard eulogising over this pathetic British Government was a former artilleryman, a Labour Councillor on Blackpool's council, in a so-called debate on selecting 12 Rgt RA as Blackpool's adopted regiment. He made me want to vomit. Had his 9 years service not taught him to think for himself? From that performance it appears very unlikely. The debate was an insult to intelligent oratory . It culminated in the heroic Major of the Conservative Party giving the worst two minute speech ever heard. The soporific mutterings were almost intelligible because the Chambers seemed to be engrossed in the fact that they may get more expenses as fresh legislation had just been introduced, requiring the Council to form a fresh licensing committee. If you think Westminster stinks, take a night off and go and visit your local council chamber. The great pity is that too few people attend these public events. You can also speak, if you apply to do so. try it, you cannot do a
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POPSOpen letter to All Americans In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy). Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded, and a questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect: (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.) 1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. ------------------------ 2. The letter 'U' will be rein
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POPSShould Barack Obama Have Skipped Europe And Gone Home? Yes, he was treated as an equal by a world leader. t was great theatre but the Frenchman came off as - how can I put this delicately - a complete clown. We'll see what happens in London but it'll be Gordon Brown hoping a little bit of the Obama magic rubs off rather than the other way round. And then there was the unseemly dispute with the Pentagon over Obama's abandoned plan to visit wounded American troops - something he could have done without. Perhaps the Illinois senator - who drew giggles from the assembled press when he had to point out in Paris that he was not the US president - should have flown back direct from Israel. The Presumptive - and Presumptuous - Nominee By Toby Harnden http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/the_presumptive_and_presumptuo.html
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POPSBroon modelling for Michaelangelo. Put maer Gin in yer tonic, Gordin. Labour Cullodened in Glasgow east. Within the next eighteen months that will be the same in Blackpool. Why? Last night I talked to a young man who echoed the derision of youth and the enthusiasm of not having lived through past Labour miseries on the late 60's and mid 70's. With prospective Conservatives swanning it in deepest Rwanda, now is an ideal time for the youth of the region to kick these fossils in the dangly bits. Go for it Ben. If you can't find a decent Party to adopt you, follow the lead of the Independent Doctor in the Forest of Dean and go it alone. I think the Conservatives have dropped a clanger with their nominee and I will be doing everything in my power to explain why to the electorate. Already the hierarchy of the local CP(Conservative Party) refuse to debate their situation with anyone not in their local party. Where was that article that say it takes £20K to get a nomination as a CP prospective candidate?
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POPSScottish Earthquake Stuns Labour In the history of UK politics this a major event. The result brings the reality of the disintegration of the United Kingdom. At the same time it marks a stunning message to the UK quasi Labour government's abysmal record on addressing poverty and the forgotten constituencies of those mired in the excrement of Gordon Brown's economic policies.
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POPSSilly Gordon Browns lack of vision and continued inability to make the best of himself suggests a need for change.
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POPSUK PM Brown Talks Troop Withdrawal Over at Political Wire, Taegan Goddard calls this " Another Gift for Obama ," noting that this has happened just "days in advance of Sen. Barack Obama's stop in London." John McCain becomes even more isolated in the world.
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