Osborne Fingers Brown
In an interview with the Speccie, Osborne has gone for the jugular:
“As for the role of the Labour government and the people around Gordon Brown, well I think there are questions to be asked of them. They were clearly involved and we just haven’t heard the full facts, I don’t think, of who knew what when. …my opposite number, who was the City Minister for part of this period and Gordon Brown’s right hand man for all of it so he has questions to answer as well.”
That should do wonders for the cross-party inquiry consensus…
it was Gordons fault, he set up FSA
Conservative minister criticies Labout PM shocker…
Conservative minister criticises shocking PM
Conservative minister criticises that total fucking wanker, Gordon Brown.
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Sounds like a Judge led enquiry is a requirement.
Politicians are already implicating each other.
How can they possibly give an impartial investigation.
It looks like other rates have been manipulated too.
Who has been in power for over 2 years in the role of PM & Chancellor it would not be Dave & Gideon would it, after 2 years they just find out what has been going on
Fawk..I guess because there has been so much shit going on in the previous 13 years that there are a large number of bases to cover.
But then I also guess you will blame Fatcha.
Fawkbender, it took THIRTEEN years for your precious Labour Party to completely F**K the country’s economy and social fabric. They were also involved with labrynthine Enron style accounting techniques in order to hide the out of control spending of Brown and his cronies. It’s going to take a lot longer than two years to put things right.
Such was the gross incompetence and corruption of institutions under Labour that one wonders if there are enough hours in the day to try to sort it out.
Fawkbender.
It would seem that Gordon and co were aware of it many years earlier but were keeping quiet about it because they were mplicated. Now they have been found out you and they are trying to obfuscate
Well watching these MPs asking the most probing questions they are capable of. All I can say is bring on Mr Jay and woman on the left.
They are making the very basic mistake of voicing their own opinions and hardly giving Diamond chance to answer the question they initially asked. Pure show boating, typical politicians more concerned about getting a sound bite on the evening news than getting to the truth. I’m with Ed on this, call in the Judge.
these thick MPs are managing to make Diamond look good.
Particularly the idiot Mudie – he seems to have no grasp of any kind of reality.
Wasn’t daddy an MP many years ago, one Angus Maude
Man in shit at Westminster , still to be rescued !
And just what is an ow.ly/c0PT6 man?
Click it and see.
Now there’s a thought I want to get out of my head….
Very unfortunate headline !!!!
Is Osborne a perv?
Ask Louise
That doesn’t make him a bad person, though. You could probably think of plenty of other reasons why he is one, I am sure.
You mean that peculiar smirk he adopts, that might just a line of something
‘Osborne fingers Brown’ Ooh Er!
Now there’s a thought I want to get out of my head…
MPs are finding it heavy going pinning anything on Bob up to now who it appears is an expert at bullshit and waffle and mis-hearing questioning and answering on a totally different topic…..Andrew Tyrie gave up after about 10 minutes and passed the baton to his colleagues who are equally struggling……
Interesting Bob said Barclays were almost always in the top 4 rates and automatically excluded, so their rate didnt have any impact, anyway.
Hmm, yes indeed..in a manner of interquartile speaking..(sic)
All asks the question why Barclay’s are being outed in this way. Didn’t take any ‘publicly owned money’ in ’08? Refused to be bitches? Or just that as ‘Diamond in the Rough’ says – he wanted this to dealt with quickly and openly?
Just the beginning…
PS: can we have a run-down on who the ‘Treasury Select Committee’ are? ie; expenses claimed etc…
Now there’s a thought I want to get out of my head…
Is there a echo in here….
here…
Labour have no intention of any consensus.
Millibland’s strategy appears to be ‘Attack is the best form of Defence’.
Create an artificial row about what type of enquiry and hope the public forget that Labour and Libor-fixing are mutually exclusive.
You mean Liebour were in charge of the country from 1997-2010, were they?, I didn’t notice, I thought it was mrs Thatcher?,.
Labour ate currently working in the year of our lord * 2 .
( * lord being when Gordon left office )
No dont be silly the Tories were in Government during 1997-2010 or else they wouldnt be getting the blame for the phone hacking and Libor scandals all of which occured during his period.
+ 1
Failing that blame Thatcher!
Go George!!
The sooner the better – the farther away the better.
I’m suprised these Labour figures even know what LIBOR is.
Its the Australian left wing party innit?
Libor, Liebore, Labour, what’s in a name?
SHunthorpe!
Miliband is hoping for the cheap old whitewash will brighten his party up a bit.
Painting it with raw effluent would do that
You’ve got to hand it to Miliband he’s some operator, all this just to shaft Balls. Bet the cueball headed druggie can’t wait to jump into Ed’s shoes.
Balls has it all coming to him IMO.
Who is the cueball headed druggie?
Balls wasn’t at Gideon’s party was he, you know the one which Guido posted showing sitting next to a prossy smirking with some snow we are told on the table
Upchucka….
So when is someone going to come out and point to the elephant in the room then
and suggest that Gordon himself may have been behind all of this? I’d really enjoy seeing him handcuffed and carted away
Dream on shine it ain’t going to happen, his defence will be the same as the Murdochs “I can’t remember”
I have listened closely to Diamond so far and I hear him saying that the banks the Labour Govt had bailed out were all fiddling their Libor submissions, ie., they were following the instructions of the Labour Govt. Simple enough, they can’t all be thickies on that panel.
It therefore followed that they (Brown et al) didn’t want Barclays with no government funding submitting much higher rates so…………..Brown et al said “Get ‘em down.”
A CEO can understand ‘instructions’ without needing them spelled out?
You well might think so. I couldn’t possibly comment.
the interesting bit that makes me wonder is he is calling them by their first name, so this is just a bit of street theatre for us braindead.
It’s laughable ! A person who cooked the books and defrauded people of their money
Being interrogated by a gang of crooks who cooked the books and defrauded people of their money
Prefuckingciseley.
Botney, surely.
like x 100!
Del Messier? Wasn’t he in Dad’s Army? And worked at a bank?
Wouldn’t have happened in Mainwaring’s day.
You’re thinking of Del boy.
Stupid Boy!
So the politicians are trying to be harder than a diamond.
Will someone please nail this slippery septic tank to the floor. Just corporate bullshit so far. Where’s Enoch when you need him?
Will the Conservatives get their act together and put the knife in deep to the lieing socialist scum who left this country in a mess.
The problem is they are just as deeply involved, so if the garbage flies around they will be just as dirty.
Isn’t this the team Gordon cursed?
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Och aye, but that’s because they keep beating everybody else.
You couldn’t believe that the angels questioning Bob Diamond, are the same ones that tried to prevent the Telegraph from printing the MP’s expenses scandal, and so on.
Let he who have no sin…………………
…..let get the cold shoulder?
I believe this matter can be resolved by a public execution.
41 Just the one? Come on: be generous! And what about some variety? A few hangings, drawings, and quarterings, some burnings at the stake (after all, some of them just love to be surrounded by hot faggots), some hanging in chains…
Bring back public boiling!
and the ducking stools.
Who loses and gains money if the banks actual LIBOR rates are lower than submitted? If Barclay’s actual interests rates are reality and other banks interest rates are actually higher than that they report, who benefits?
The people who benefit are those who wish to give the impression that they are managing the economy well. Their evidence would be the (falsely reported) low interest levels. This would be particularly valuable at a time when their ‘clients’ have the power to decide whether to take their business elsewhere.
As an example, the deranged and sociopathic PM and his similarly unpleasant henchmen. This example is, of course, hypothetical because The Maximum Imbecile never considered calling an election at the time. After all, he never told a lie in his life did he.
Let hem play their arrogant and childish games. They merely illustrate further that the political class is held in no esteem by anybody but themselves.
Diamond is doing a Gordy blaming his staff, hope his secretary isn’t called Sue..
FFS Diamond. All we want to hear is B.A.L.L.S. Then although you might be an utter cnut, you can get on with your life.
Any old tosh any old tosh
Any any any old to……sh.
Quick on my feet
These dopes are sheep
They don’t have a clue
What points to pursue.
I’ve got the dosh
and also the cosh
In the form of my little black book.
Shirti, Blinky Balls and Brown
Bye Bye you bastards.
Di diddly I di di di.
No matter where you stand these Corporate twonks are either lawyers themselves or are so well briefed that the only way to get the answers is to stick a luger to their heads.
..I wouold prefer a heavily laden lugger actually.
Who’s this twat Andrew Love?
Andy Love Libor MP reading his questions: makes pig shit seem paper thin.
… love is a many splendoured thing…
Bollocks Brown says ‘I still got me job, aye! Bob ain’t – HA HA’
Prescott is a fat twat
It’s pointless to deny it.
Yes,the Tory party is bankrolled by the Bankers.
We do NOT give millions and millions to the libor party.
72 … no, of course not ‘give’! The ££millions, are advance payment for future services.
Poxy BBC is shreiking about Lardarse Prescott and Toilets McGuire demanding judge led inquiry as now being necessary because of partisan questioning by Tyrie…
…..Does my head in.
Impartial BBC – the bullshit talking is all over the place, every channcel (radio or tv).
It would require a non-partisan judge first.
I’m free!
PS: I do hope those ejerkatid unda layba no hoo I woz.
It’s good that the upright & honourable MPs employing their relatives are challenging a CEO of 140k over a few dodgy employees.
George Mudie claimed £62,000 over four years on a £26,000 mortgage: http://t.co/187STJyS
‘Sorry for that … accountancy does not appear to be my strongest suit,’
Bob makes me look mediocre !
You must be joking! He’s an amateur compared to B.Lair. He only ran a bank, B.Lair sent innocent men to their deaths.
Very true Carlos AND he’s made millions out of those d..e..a..t..h..s. The Bast8rd.
Just look at his countenance now, though – the haggard look, the treadmill look, the ‘when can this all be over?’ look. You see, despite his and his wife’s undoubtedly, touchingly, sincere Faith, he’s mine, all mine! We’re still working on her – not just through Crystals and Pyramids – but through good old Mammon. I reckon she too will be mine in the end: you could say the Cherry (wouldn’t she hate that!) on the Cake…
…. and the answer will be.. “It was Sue, wasn’t it…”
Its all down to Nu Libor.
No its down to Shit Old New Liebour
A wibble. Baldrick! The Cocker Spaniel please……
Get them before they get you, Georgie m’lad.
LOl all the rightwing bilge spouted here..
Guido and his vile blog spews fourth all kinds of unsubstantiated crap to suit his bloated maggot ridden agenda.
Hmm In reality you lot would be laughed off your soap boxes if you tried this public.