Muniain

comment by Fred Bassett and Anfield Cat vs The World - Qu... (U3979)
posted 39 seconds ago
The recession that we got into under the Labour government you mean? Under 'the iron chancellor'?
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I'm not sticking up for any of them but I do believe the banking problems were inevitable no matter who was in power.

Obviously I don't begrudge you the right to vote and it's completely up to you and yes this is a football forum, so yeah.

Out of interest, with you living in France, are you allowed to vote?

comment by Dr Satan (U1449)
posted 11 minutes ago
I don't vote for any of the three majors, this country needs radical change but while we have murdoch's evil empire and the like filling us with crap like "this country is at risk of a major terrorist threat" then people will ultimately buy it and nothing will change.
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No, I'm not a French national. I'm just stuck with either an idiot in Sarkozy for the UMP, a socialist party candidate (very left wing) or Marine Le Pen. Son of the grand wizard of the KKK, Jean Marie le Pen.

However I'm leaving soon anyway.

comment by Fred Bassett and Anfield Cat vs The World - Qu... (U3979)
posted 5 minutes ago
No, I'm not a French national. I'm just stuck with either an idiot in Sarkozy for the UMP, a socialist party candidate (very left wing) or Marine Le Pen. Son of the grand wizard of the KKK, Jean Marie le Pen.

However I'm leaving soon anyway.
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Where does your next journey take you? I do hope it's not back to the UK.

Let's be honest. You can't blame the bankers (people who work in a high street bank have different titles, ranging from 'cashier' to 'Credit Advisor', as with most useless modern terminology) for doing what best they could within the legal framework. Policy makers are more to blame than the banks themselves.
The whole 'bonus culture' is fully justified and to me people just seem to jump on the bandwagon and have a go at others for earning a lot of money. As Fred says, these people work extremly hard (often 16-18 hour days) and many of them burn out by their mid thirties or just can't cope and quit. Personally I just wouldn't enjoy the job, but many of my friends work in the city.

Interesting ideas here http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/

Da Bomb



When you personally know some of these people you see it from a totally different perspective.

I agree the culture of the City can be somewhat questionable but the financial services industry is responsible for more of our economy than any other sector.

The 1% of guys who are raking it in will also be paying huge amounts in taxes (at least they should be ), they're not the ones having 9 kids so they can get a bigger house, or becoming a drain on the NHS by not looking after themselves properly.

It makes me laugh when people criticise immigrants for stealing our jobs. These guys come over, work ridiculous hours for crap money just to give their family a better life, then you get all the scalls who are born and bred Liverpudlian who would rather sit around getting stoned all day rather than lift a finger to do any work.

I hate the Jeremy Kyle generation with a passion.

Of course there are a proportion of society who want to do little but the youth today get a bad press being labelled workshy and benefit cheats etc etc, however if we are talking benefit cheats then look no further than our great party leaders and colleagues who "used their initiative" shall we say to have moats cleaned, drives re-gravelled, mansions furnished and second and third homes paid for, all by your hard earned tax..................mp's don't you just love'em.

To be fair to MPs their wages are pretty low compared to most countries. The only one I genuinely respect is bojo. He's not in it for personal gain ala Cameron. (not a Tory btw)

My wages are low but i don't exploit the system for financial gain.