Rich & Mark’s Monday View
Dave Will Still Win in 2015 | Toby Young
Activists Should Ignore the Sneerers | Jacob Rees-Mogg
NHS Can Kill Tories | James Kirkup
Dave Lets Labour Take Credit For Gay Marriage | FT
UKIP Set to Out-Poll Tories | Telegraph
UKIP Spokesperson Slaps Down BBC | The Commentator
Tobin Distanced Himself From Robin Hood Tax Protesters | FT
Tories Must Move on From Gay Marriage | Ben Brogan
Has the Right Split Irrevocably? | Iain Martin
Dave’s Woes Stem From 2010 | Janan Ganesh
Cameron Has Trashed His Own Brand | Rachel Sylvester
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Lord Tebbit has his say on ‘aggressive homosexuals’:
“Why shouldn’t a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other? I quite fancy my brother!”
Harold Macmillan says:
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
Not at all funny.
Where is Brown the Clown? The man most responsible for all this slapstick.
Ah here he is.
http://order-order.com/2008/12/09/ronald-mcdonald-higher-rated-than/
Exactly. This line-up could have come from the diseased brains at the Grauniad.
is one alexander?
Alexander Not-At-All-Great?
Err no, I think it is down to bankers – Brown just sat on his hands.
bye bye Bobbie – nice to have known you (not). I hope there are some squeaky bums around the square mile – You are next – and hopefully it will be prison time.
i sold the gold
Teflon Tony appears to have been followed by the one-eyed, non-stick knobhead.
How did Velcro George get to be public enemy number one when all this was happening in 2008?
Who has been Chancellor for the last 2 years?
Mr.Magoo?
Forky – that is a bit like asking who the Lord Mayor of Hiroshima was in 1947, and why hadn’t he got it all rebuilt in the last 2 years- it takes a little bit more than a squeegee and a dust buster.
Who was Chancellor for 11 years when all this fixing was going on from 2006 and how come Brown never knew about it as he claims he never knew about the sub-prime fiasco? Was that Osborne’s fault? How come all Labour’s dirty washing only comes out when we have a Tory government as it did with newspaper fixing? And we wouldn’t have heard about MP expenses but for the Daily Telegraph.
It was Brown who changed the banking system to make it easier for banks to fiddle. It was Brown who destroyed private sector pensions. Or was that George’s fault as well?
Osborne c*cked up the last budget. That and things that happened since 2010 are his responsibility not things that went wrong before then. Why should I even have to be saying this?
At that height they must be standing on boxes too.
Oh look! He’s put name tags on them again. So we can tell who they are.
In fairness Merv and Diamond actually look like Merv and Diamond.
It was a good idea to stick a name-tag on Osborne though because that caricature looks nothing like him.
As to what point the cartoon is making? Not a fucking clue.
As Trinny says (below), it doesn’t make much sense. If it’s about LIBOR, it should have McMental and Ballsup on the left, instead of Giddy. But if it’s about QE, WTF is Bob Diamond doing on the right?
(well done for recognising Merv – I thought it was the guy who played Batman’s butler in the TV series.)
http://www.justjared.com/2011/03/17/michael-gough-dead/
(My mistake – not the TV series.)
If it is Gideon that is, the drawing hasn’t Gideon’s perpetual smirk, that’s his trademark
The one on the left is 8illy 8owden who won the June 22 and June 29th caption competitions as per usual, but R&M are too embarressed to admit it.
Stitch ups do not just occur with politicians and bankers!
Not only does it not look like Osborne (the sneer is too mild) but it also seems that George is over 7ft tall when we all know he is the missing dwarf from the local pantomime.
Was that Wanky? The one none of the other dwarves would shake hands with?
Oh no he isn’t.
Which one is really Keyser Soze?
The buck stop with me,no way !
I like veggie cock
Do you mean Prince Jug Ears?
Is this supposed to be a comment on QE or LIBOR? Some confusion surely?
It’s supposed to be a way to get £2.50 out of our tight-fisted host.
You’re having a laugh !
The buck stops with me ????
Go away. haven’t you got the dear leader into enough trouble?
Scalp all of them!
geronimo you say scalp them all, reading an article many moons ago that scalping was intoduced by french trappers to the native american tinkers. (sure it said french trappers and not french trappists)
You used the word ‘tinkers’. Report to HMP Belmarsh for 56 days’ detention.
Where are Balls and Brown?
Oh please add Teflon T Bliar to that crew and hang the lot!
Gideon is a 7 foot tall?
He thinks he is, after he’s snórted a few lines in the morning.
So that is the reason for his perpetual smirk
The perpetual smirk of a camel
Is greater than many man thinks….
etc
The HMRC and police are in possession of £10M of cocain enough to keep the HoC going into the next centuary
Still can’t understand why Merve is still in a job, if their’s anyone that should have been sacked it is him, I always thought he was Brown’s hand rag, didn’t realise he was so sad that he carried on as Georgy boys hand rag.
I don’t know why he’s still there either. He should have been fired on DAY ONE for the crime of failing to quit and go nuclear during the Imbecile years.
Cameron in opposition waxed lyrical about the Head of BOE being appointed for one seven year term only.
Shame in office he does not have the strength of his own convictions.
Despite his last 5 year contract given by Brown Cameron could still have paid King out early.
True past disasters would still come out but the smell would be easier to clear.
People may question whether Merv should still have a job, but not many people question central banking general. Should we have central economic planning at all?
Don’t just sack Merv, abolish the Bank of England!
The Bank of England won’t get caught up in the rate fixing scandal. It’s a shame though, the central banks of the world desperately need more light shone on their actions.
I wonder how many calls Gordon Brown didn’t make to the BoE to get bankers to fiddle the LIBOR rate.
My beef is more with central banks in general. They’re secretive and they get way too much slack in my opinion.
Interesting, that — my beef is kept in the freezer.
and I keep my pork in my pants.
I thought the answer to everything was to channel all bank regulation through the BOE and not the FSA.
It is a least worst scenario. If you had ever dealt with the FSA (as I have on the insurance side) you would know that they are the most useless bunch in existence, manned by staff who are incapable of getting a company job but end up at the FSA because they pay peanuts and will take anyone they can get. However it can be worse – you should see Italian supervisory bodies.
Have you ever thought of getting some talented artist to draw funny cartoons for the site, Guido? Just a suggestion.
He could start with either ‘talented artist’ or ‘funny’. No point trying to run before you can walk.
And someone who doesn’t rely on the BBC and Guardian for all their information.
If they come for me, there’s a lot of shit to come out about the Bank of England and Brown-Balls
Should I buy popcorn?
No I think you should go out and get a shot gun mate.
If that’s true – which I hope it is – whatever you do, DON’T go for a walk in the woods……
We knew a bloke who went for a walk in the woods once – carried a penknife? Was that the one?
Well you don’t have quite the right gang in there. That should have included gordon’Isavedtheworld’brown and bullyballs who cooked up this nasty little banking scheme and then ‘persuaded’ the banks to do their dirty work.
They are all complicit B’Liar, Brown, Balls, Milliband for 13 years and this lot for two years, and still nothing has been really done except for calling each other names (and if past examples are anything to go by that will be as good as it will get), if the Cons had no idea that this problem existed, why not, if in the 13 years of Liebore they knew about it but raised no questions they are just as complicit. They are all in it together, at least Dave is right about that.
How could the Tories have known about if Brown didn’t? And if he did know he could even have ordered it. How do you know he wasn’t the man behind the whole Libor fixing, seeing as it happened in several different banks all at around the same time?
Who was in charge at the time all this was going on? Who said he had saved the world? Maybe this fixing was just one way he thought he had saved it. Would we even know about it today if Labour were still in power?
The Foxy person is starting to rear his head about the parapet over the EU where’s his special friend
He is just trying to whip up (!) interest for his forthcoming book “Spank me, Big Boy”.
If there is a investigation by the fraud squad, do the maximum imbecile, bollocks and the millitwat have any immunity
The Imbecile has the insanity defence. If convicted he’ll be serving his sentence in Rampton or Carstairs
Is that Lord Carstairs, 4th under secretary at the Ministry of Doing Bugger All?
Wah’ dae ye mean? Ah’m alre’dy banged up here!!
Investigation ?, surely you’ve been imbibing a bit early in those Welsh hills, what with Leveson, it’s time to buy shares in companies who make whitewash.
what with all the imbibing going on in the valley we hardly have any time to chase sheep
+1000
Mervyn King was the man who wanted to sort out Northern Crock over a nice Bankers’ weekend dinner party.
Read the minutes of the Parliamentary Select Committee if you do not believe me.
That was precisely the way to be sorting these things out. That’s how similar problems were dealt with in the past. No need to rock the fucking boat. But that didn’t suit the Maximum Imbecile. He needed a headline-grabbing ‘Banks in meltdown’ story to divert attention away from his disastrous economic policy. Which was why Peston was briefed to break the story.
Just stop and think what we’re being asked to believe. We’re being asked to believe that Labour’s mouthpiece, the BBC, ‘broke’ a story without Labour giving it the go-ahead?
Ridiculous isn’t it?
Peston? BBC? Investigative journalist? BBC?
Labour destroyed Northern Rock. And RBS. And HBoS. And LLoyds. Deliberately destroyed them to make them scapegoats to divert attention away from the Maximum Imbecile’s economic clusterfuck.
I always thought that Northern Rock destroyed itself by lending at valuations of 120%.
RBS destroyed itself by being too ambitious and paying over the odds.
Hbos destroyed itself by growing beyond its level of competence and not acknowledging the fact.
Lloyds destroyed itself by being easily influenced and paying no attention to detail.
Concur… For the decade before the crash Northern Rock was renowned throughout the industry as the place to go to borrow if you hadn’t a cat in hell’s chance anywhere else…no questions asked
All you say is true in that their lines of credit dried up when it became obvious that these banks had, in their various ways, over-extended themselves. But it became a political decision to allow them to founder in order to blame them for the larger economic clusterfuck rather than making loans available while they worked through the problem.
A whole bunch of Europ*ean banks have been given any amount of soft loans by the ECB rather than trashed by their ‘home’ governments. Barclays managed to get a loan from Qatar which meant that it wasn’t trashed by Brown.
These banks put themselves in harms way but it was a political decision to destroy them and scapegoat them.
Agree apart from Lloyds. Lloyds was destroyed by Daniels selling out his shareholders and giving in to government strongarming to buy HBOS. The core Lloyds business was the one solid UK bank.
‘Giving in to government strongarming…’
Is it not obvious that a government that would deliberately fuck Lloyds would not also have deliberately fucked RBS and HBoS too?
Think it was Victor Blank actually.
Nuthn’s ma fult ye un’stn! – they invited me tae a recep’n!
Moniker; agree it was Blank as well as Daniels.
The decision to allow Lloyds to take over HBOS was definitely a political one as normally it would have gone straight to the Competition Commission. Labour waved it right through. Why did they do that if not to destroy Lloyds?
I thought mervyn king was a 60′s soul singer
No that was Shirley Jones.
Alma Cogan surely?
So even this blog now believes labours thirteen years never happened. What’s with the media in this country?
Well no truth that they’re all being fired and Robert Mugabe’s financial team is ready to be brought in to sort the mess out?
Mugabe was Ed Balls financial tutor.
Well that explains a lot! I supose Mugabe was also very well paid consultant to
Mac Mental? It’s all coming together now!
Curly , Larry and Moe
Ay, getting to look like a Marx brothers slapstick movie
Comment on the news this morning a survey by the guardian state that police think they will be more riots this year, usual guardian bollocks, sounds like a smoke screen to try and take the heat off bollocks and millitwat
The biggest smokescreen I have seen today is some twat talking about an EU referendum
…”riots will be caused by the economy and the hot weather”…that’ll be like the hot summer weather outside my window? – windy, raining, dull and chilly.
++++Laugh+++++
That guardian AGW church is so deluded it thinks we having the hottest driest summer ever!
Oh my!
The Guardian are a riot, aren’t they.
Good of them to advertise rioting to their fellow mongs.
I abolished boom and now we’re busted.
The most incompetent twat ever to grace No 11 Downing Street poses with the most incompetent twat ever to run the bank of England and some bloke that knew nothing about bank fraud
Lots of nice girls arrived at the nudie site yesterday, Frankie. Do you want me to set a couple or three aside for you?
Mornin mate you lucky bar steward
Wouldn’t mind , but wifey might get upset
if i cum over LoL
QE had never happened before Gordon Brown.
The intellectual effort that goes into these cartoons is a form of Quantative Easing itself.
Today’s gets 10/10 for Quantitative Excrement.
The one in the middle is that funny little Japanese chap, isn’t he?
Oi – I’m Chinese, you mother!
‘Scuse me – must dash – need to see a man about a tin bath on wheels.
According to a colour swatch I happen to have at hand he is in fact Vellum or dark cream wove.
Is Ed Balls seriously ill?
There hasn’t been a peep out of him since this broke.
Get him on Paxo tonight. Better still Brillo at noon!
You can bet there’s some frantic phonecalls going on between diamond, brown, balls, militwit and king each pleading with the other not to tell what they know.
One for all and all for one …..
Ho Hum.
Oh if only phone hacking were still possible!
I think you will find that Gordon Brown doesn’t make phone calls. He uses telepathy to communicate his orders.
Better still get him on a rack until he spills the beans, the coffee and anything else he’s juggling!
This isn’t about Labour..it’s about the Tories and their banking cronies !!!
I expect there to be a new shadow chancellor within 48 hours.
You seriously think that Bliar and Broon weren’t thick with that lot when they were in charge c*cking everything up for us punters?
” The next big scandal will be Lobbying.”
” This isn’t just Banking: it’s seriously rich Banking”
I think we should have an enquiry into why my Labour government was responsible for the financial mess and then I should be sent to prison.
Oops.
I say you jolly chaps!! That picture reminds me – a lot of my best chums are top-flight bankers!! What can we do to help them? What? Wattage? Rumpy-Pumpyage?? HS2age???!!
Barclays has promised a “root and branch review”
A bit of weeding wouldn’t go amiss.
Ah!! That’s what we need! A Wedding!!!! Who can we fit up? – and have a jolly super distraction for a few weeks? – get the wimmin talking about fashion and such like cobblers!!
How about announcing a civil partnership for Liam Fox?
Can you get this “root and branch review” in B&Q ?
Is it manufactured by Monsanto ?
I’m still a non-executive director of BBC’s new Executive Board…not a lot of people know that.
The architects of all this are Blair the weird and Brown the mental.
Weren’t Spain good.
You leave my Tone outta this!
Theresa – how many time do you have to be told; he is not your Tone.
You should really be making a formal complaint to the RIBA.
Marcus Agius says “the buck stops with me”
Gordon Brown says ” The F*** up started with me “
But it comes out as I saved the world.
Barclaycard has more complaints against them than the sum of all the other banks and financial houses. Now they are really appalling, in the menu to thier customers they have a great selection from lying to cheating and corruption. Took a compalint to FSO against them, no chance they protect barclaycard, found out that the ombudsman had been working with barclays. this seemed to be normal practice with them
If you are not happy then cut the card up and cancel the account.
Moaning all day long gets you nowhere.
I closed my Barclays account last Friday and it is the best thing I have done in ages
Exactly. I closed mine 30 years ago.
It is not as if there isn’t plenty of choice.
In short this is how capitalism works. You have a choice. Unlike the alternative these socialist mongs want where everything is a state monopoly and you have no choice but to put up with corruption, inefficiency and bad service.
UK banks operate a de facto duopoly and the ‘choice’ is between one corrupt, inept bunch of shysters or another. They will all skank your cash in as many ways possible whilst treating you as major inconvenience when you dare to expect the teller to actually do some counting.
It’s a similar choice to a dog-shit sandwich or cat-shit casserole, both at vastly inflated prices.
UK banks should be forced to de-leverage and those that can’t or won’t should be liquidated.
We’re offering odds of 2/5 that Bob Diamond will still be Chief Executive of Barclays in a months time.
He ain’t going nowhere,you heard it here first.
The questions are: – ‘Have any laws been broken? If so are the police to be involved? Who will instigate a police investigation? Have the police the necessary IQ and resources to undertake such an investigation? Will there be prosecutions? OR WILL THE WHOLE FIC*ING MESS BE SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET AND THE MAIN PLAYERS GET OFF SCOTT FREE?
I am moving to the Cooperative Bank from Barclays.
My six brothers four sisters eight brothers in law and 64 of my 98 cousins are all going to follow my advice.
Which one is Keyser Söze?
What is Mr Boris Johnson doing?
London is full of bikes this morning plastered with the name of Barclays.
Someone should be doing something.
I geddit!
It’s the Kray Twins, errr triplets ….
Colossal fail Guido
This one points straight at Balls
Hint to Plod…..I’d be having a nice shufty at emails between the testicular one and PIMCO if I were you
Corroboration at the weekend by the “RBS three”