Balls Shifts Focus Toward Shriti
“As for Ms Vadera, she was a very important adviser, this was a time when there were huge worries about the state of Barclays and other banks following the collapse of Lehmann Brothers and RBS. But she said that she has no recollection of any conversation about the Libor rate and the things reported in the Diamond memo and I hear and take what she said.”
A ringing endorsement…
“I’ve no idea because I wasn’t there and the only way to get to the heart of these matters is to have a Treasury Committee inquiry, and people can appear before that, and then to have the full public inquiry which we are calling for and which the public wants into the wider question, wider than the Libor market, about the culture in banking. But to answer your question, Simon, I have absolutely no idea.”
In summary: It wasn’t me, she says it wasn’t her, but I have no idea if she’s telling the truth…
No looking good for Labour, rats sinking ship come to mind
So Ed Shits on Shriti. No surprise there then.
Blinky is doing a Livingstone
Throw everything but the truth in the path of discovery
A true sociopath
Brillo has Roland Rudd coming to lunch at daily Politics tomorrow.
Perhaps Guido can get Him to ask Roland who came to dinner with Miliband
I hear Obi Wan Kanobi’s doing a roaring trade in Jedi mind tricks these days .
Bend over Shreeti, I’m comin in Dry!
If Bob Diamond puts the former PM and his government in a canoe and sends them up shit creek without a paddle I won’t dislike him quite so much…. I’m sure the vast majority of Right thinkers will agree.
You might say the Shriti is about to hit the fan…..
Go Diamond go!
politicians got hit by a high minded person or 2……then they hit the media….and now media hits the Bankers…and the bankers hit the establishment.
what next.
the establishment hits the happiness industry?
$1bn fine on Glaxo SmithKline was mentioned yesterday.
….no wonder the world is becoming happy.
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spiritual rebirth was never going to be easy.
was this behind all those (old) world will be destroyed in 2012 sayings. certainly a new Britain is emerging. All fresh, clean and gleaming.
Nothing will happen.They will get away with it as usual. And 35% of the electorate will still vote for a dustbin full of shit with a red rosette on it.
Spot on. Guido and others get overly excited about all these revelations, but probably less than 3% of voters read such blogs. The BBC controls 70% of news digested by the public. The Tories are useless and are more worried about their own skeletons falling out of the closet with the Liebour ones.
I can confirm that I was never involved in financial and Treasury matters whilst I was ‘working’ in the Cabinet during The Reign of Terror 1997-2010.
Yes, it was a very specific denial, wasn’t it??
At the head of the great Barclays bank
Was a banker who’s rated top rank
But someone on the Blower
Wanted Libor rates lower
To allow their great leader to swank
But in a short passage of time
Fixing Libor it seems is a crime
The committee select
Will no doubt detect
Which of the suspects is prime
Who was it who sanctioned the call
Was it Gordon or Darling or Ball
When the cover is blown
And the culprit is known
Bob wont be the last one to fall
if it was Gordon or Ball or Darling….then who will they want to pass the buck to.
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suppose the buck stops with ourTone. He likes to take decisions and stands by them.
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OurTone is protected.
I don’t think I can remember who Gordon Brown is either.
Lets face it Ed, you still cannot polish a turd; Roll it in glitter maybe, but polish it?….No
Socialism is a mental disorder: The Labour Party is the asylum
Usual Labour tactic – single out an unelected advisor as a scapegoat and brief and smear against them as much as possible. Loathsome in the extreme.
Agreed – but she is certainly capable of looking after herself and won’t take it on the chin.
…..? Are you sure? She looks like she might for the right promotion promise.
Time to do another line, and perhaps a “double drop” if I’m lucky
You seem to know a lot about these sorts of things! Have you studied it in college? Or are you speaking from personal experiences?
Live chat ?????
First?
Hang on. This woman is as old as me. How has got so high up the greasey pole?Granted fleeing Uganda would have been pretty traumatic however it appears she has never been elected and was “appointed” by Gordon Brown (says it all really)
How do you get to be one of the major influencers of major policy – whether she’s a ballbreaker or not is irrelvant – withou being elected to public office.
AARRGGHHHH!!! No wonder we’re in the state we are!
I wasn’t there
It wasn’t me
It snot my fault
It’s all Thatcher’s fault
what else could I do?
etc
“I was only obeying orders!”
Now where have we heard that one before..?
Why have I got a hole in my foot?
I will use the Nuremberg defence
Oh good – mostly shot or hanged then, if that swamp hog Yvette Cooper can’t smuggle you any cyanide in – having said that, if she was my wife, I’D take it! (Thank’s Winston)
She looks a bit like me
I can see the similarity between the defendents. And both National Socialists of course.
Conspiracy to defraud charges come to mind
Let me be absolutely categorical about this: I categorically deny remembering anything about this period at all. Ever. I do clearly remember this being all the Tories’ fault, however.
This cartoon was about the Boss Tweed Ring in the New York of the 1860′s, but it’s still appropriate a century and a half later in London:
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welcome to the layer cake, son
Let Them Bleed.
Stones one of the best bands ever
Balls is a brave man trying to shift the emphasis onto Shriti.
She was renowned for spilling other people’s blood whilst at the Treasury and for having screaming fits that put GorDo McCavity Broon into the shade.
Let’s hope that she spills the beans, as a woman wronged, and drops both Ed’s right into the 5 H 1 T.
Shriti Balls.
Disgusting.
Desoite appearances, we are not relations.
Libor by name, Liebour by nature.
Unfortunately, this event has reached
the capacity set by the host.
What the fuck GF whats going on ?
What is the point of a Eutopean Parliament if the non elelected European commission is superior?
What is the point of a Eutopean Parliament if the non elelected European commission is superior?
then by all acepted reason it is not a true parliment
Makes perfect sense to me.
Is it a given that if you come from uganda like warsi and this one you end being corrupt and eat veggie chicken
I see McShame has escaped justice.
am I right in thinking that on the World at One today Baroness Vadera specifically denied talking to anyone at the BoE but specifically failed to deny that she had asked someone to do so, or that she was aware that someone had done so?
The man is a skin job.