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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? 21:13 - Jun 15 with 4245 viewsDarran


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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 21:47 - Jun 15 with 2150 viewssherpajacob

Quite how Blair and Brown caused the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or the liquidity problems of BNP Paribas is beyond me.

Can he also be held directly responsible for George Osbornes austerity economics as well?

This is why the Tories, evil, selfish and heartless as they are,,keep getting voted in.

They wouldn't dream of laying blame with previous Tory administrations.

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(No subject) (n/t) on 21:52 - Jun 15 with 2142 viewsJACKMANANDBOY

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 21:47 - Jun 15 by sherpajacob

Quite how Blair and Brown caused the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or the liquidity problems of BNP Paribas is beyond me.

Can he also be held directly responsible for George Osbornes austerity economics as well?

This is why the Tories, evil, selfish and heartless as they are,,keep getting voted in.

They wouldn't dream of laying blame with previous Tory administrations.


Yes, US mortgage derivatives not created by Blair! Why is Corbyn having a go at him on this now?
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 23:18 - Jun 15 with 2018 viewsWarwickHunt

The Blair government actually achieved things; the only thing Labour will achieve under Corbyn is another Tory government.

Right on, Jezza - you massive fûcking twàt.
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 23:28 - Jun 15 with 1998 viewsNookiejack

The Balance Sheets of the UK High Street banks grew to such an extent that their liabilities were each more than the GDP of the U.K.

Brown was happy to let this happen as received massive tax receipts from the City..
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 00:03 - Jun 16 with 1973 viewsNookiejack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 21:47 - Jun 15 by sherpajacob

Quite how Blair and Brown caused the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or the liquidity problems of BNP Paribas is beyond me.

Can he also be held directly responsible for George Osbornes austerity economics as well?

This is why the Tories, evil, selfish and heartless as they are,,keep getting voted in.

They wouldn't dream of laying blame with previous Tory administrations.


Labour Government 1997 to 2010

Financial Crisis 2008

Selfish, heartless Tories - how do you work that out - when Labour were in power 11 years up to the Finacial crisi?
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 01:31 - Jun 16 with 1912 viewslonglostjack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 00:03 - Jun 16 by Nookiejack

Labour Government 1997 to 2010

Financial Crisis 2008

Selfish, heartless Tories - how do you work that out - when Labour were in power 11 years up to the Finacial crisi?


Point spectacularly missed.

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 05:57 - Jun 16 with 1839 viewsKilkennyjack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 23:18 - Jun 15 by WarwickHunt

The Blair government actually achieved things; the only thing Labour will achieve under Corbyn is another Tory government.

Right on, Jezza - you massive fûcking twàt.


The truth.

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 07:59 - Jun 16 with 1776 viewsfelixstowe_jack

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 09:56 - Jun 16 with 1694 viewsNookiejack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 01:31 - Jun 16 by longlostjack

Point spectacularly missed.


Labour took the ‘30 pieces of silver’ In respect of tax receipts from the city to pay for increased public services - as the financial bubble grew and grew.

Trouble is the financial bubble then popped.

Why did Labour allow Northern Rock to take out 125% LTV mortgages?

Why did they allow the balance sheet of RBS to swell to enormous levels?

That is what I assure Momentum are getting at.
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 09:59 - Jun 16 with 1684 viewsexiledclaseboy

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 09:56 - Jun 16 by Nookiejack

Labour took the ‘30 pieces of silver’ In respect of tax receipts from the city to pay for increased public services - as the financial bubble grew and grew.

Trouble is the financial bubble then popped.

Why did Labour allow Northern Rock to take out 125% LTV mortgages?

Why did they allow the balance sheet of RBS to swell to enormous levels?

That is what I assure Momentum are getting at.


I agree. Labour’s mistake was continuing the Tories’ deregulatory policies as it relates to the banks. Terrible error.

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 10:08 - Jun 16 with 1663 viewsHighjack

The answer is most likely to be “both of them”.

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 10:14 - Jun 16 with 1653 viewsBarrySwan

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 21:47 - Jun 15 by sherpajacob

Quite how Blair and Brown caused the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or the liquidity problems of BNP Paribas is beyond me.

Can he also be held directly responsible for George Osbornes austerity economics as well?

This is why the Tories, evil, selfish and heartless as they are,,keep getting voted in.

They wouldn't dream of laying blame with previous Tory administrations.


It was of course British banks that bought up large amounts of American mortgages which had been issued to people who never had a hope of repaying them.

I watched a programme on TV where an American mortgage adviser was saying that his industry couldn't believe their luck. They made money selling these mortgages to those who had no realistic chance of keeping up repayments and then danced with delight as the mug British banks came along and relieved the American institutions of all liability by buying up huge portfolios of the doomed mortgages.


Perhaps if the Labour government had not relaxed regulations so much and had in place a proper regulatory body instead of the useless now disbanded FSA then the British taxpayer would not have had to bail out our greedy banks.


Oh and on the subject of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, irresponsible mortgage lending and of course the British lefts favourite American socialist hero heres just one of the reasons why the crisis occurred

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/4413546/This-is
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 10:23 - Jun 16 with 1631 viewsHighjack

In fairness though Blair is correct when he says he removed children from the effects of poverty abroad. There’s nothing that eases a young Iraqi child’s money worries like a cruise missile coming through the school window during double maths.

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 10:24 - Jun 16 with 1628 viewscontroversial_jack

The entire financial system was on the edge, mostly due to the derivitives market, the mortgage subprime business was the final straw it wasn't the cause.

Capitalism failed in 2008!
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:34 - Jun 16 with 1579 viewsNookiejack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 10:24 - Jun 16 by controversial_jack

The entire financial system was on the edge, mostly due to the derivitives market, the mortgage subprime business was the final straw it wasn't the cause.

Capitalism failed in 2008!


Labour were in charge since 1997 11 years before 2008.

They had the power and time to rein things in.
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:36 - Jun 16 with 1575 viewsexiledclaseboy

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:34 - Jun 16 by Nookiejack

Labour were in charge since 1997 11 years before 2008.

They had the power and time to rein things in.


And I’d imagine the Tories were screaming at the top of their lungs for more regulation in the financial sector through that entire time were they?

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:45 - Jun 16 with 1563 viewsNookiejack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:36 - Jun 16 by exiledclaseboy

And I’d imagine the Tories were screaming at the top of their lungs for more regulation in the financial sector through that entire time were they?


Course they wouldn't have but that is a 'what if' question.

Labour were the party in power for 11 years before the financial crisis so could have done something about not allowing the bubble to develop.
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:53 - Jun 16 with 1550 viewsexiledclaseboy

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:45 - Jun 16 by Nookiejack

Course they wouldn't have but that is a 'what if' question.

Labour were the party in power for 11 years before the financial crisis so could have done something about not allowing the bubble to develop.


I agree fully. Let’s explore the “what if” scenario though. Would the Tories, historically the party of deregulation, have done things any differently do you think?

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 12:12 - Jun 16 with 1524 viewsoldtownjack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:45 - Jun 16 by Nookiejack

Course they wouldn't have but that is a 'what if' question.

Labour were the party in power for 11 years before the financial crisis so could have done something about not allowing the bubble to develop.


The process of de-regulation started under Thatcher and continued under Blair and Brown who used the windfall from the financial sector to fund the massive investment in public services. The Tories were calling for more de-regulation at the time. One of the failings of Ed Milliband is that he didn't fight strongly enough the hghly effective Tory narrative that the global financial crash was cause by Labour fiscal mismanagement. Also, many argue that austerity wasn't necessarily the natural outcome of the crash and that it was ideological in nature as opposed to being an economic necessity.

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 12:47 - Jun 16 with 1489 viewsJACKMANANDBOY

So why exactly is Corbyn raising this?

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 13:05 - Jun 16 with 1482 viewswaynekerr55

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 12:47 - Jun 16 by JACKMANANDBOY

So why exactly is Corbyn raising this?


Because he's an incompetent and thick Champagne Marxist who should fÃÂșck off somewhere to show solidarity.

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 13:09 - Jun 16 with 1470 viewsNookiejack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 11:53 - Jun 16 by exiledclaseboy

I agree fully. Let’s explore the “what if” scenario though. Would the Tories, historically the party of deregulation, have done things any differently do you think?


I think Tories have been the party of deregulation since Thatcher. Since the Wall Street crash there was always reluctance for Investment Banks to own Retail Bank re Glass-Steagall Act.

If Investment Banks historically wanted to gamble they had to do it with their own capital.

I don’t think the Tories would have reined things back - however who knows what the shape of the economy would have looked like then.

I generally think that the people in charge are accountable for their policies and decisions.

I don’t think you can blame the Tories for it on the premis - that if they were in charge they wouldn’t have done anything differently.
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 13:15 - Jun 16 with 1461 viewsNookiejack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 12:12 - Jun 16 by oldtownjack

The process of de-regulation started under Thatcher and continued under Blair and Brown who used the windfall from the financial sector to fund the massive investment in public services. The Tories were calling for more de-regulation at the time. One of the failings of Ed Milliband is that he didn't fight strongly enough the hghly effective Tory narrative that the global financial crash was cause by Labour fiscal mismanagement. Also, many argue that austerity wasn't necessarily the natural outcome of the crash and that it was ideological in nature as opposed to being an economic necessity.


But remember things like Brown’s golden rule about only borrowing for investment.

In respect of the ideological argument

https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_national_debt_analysis

‘In 2005 the UK National Debt was less that £0.5 trillion. But then came the worldwide financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent recession. The National Debt increased rapidly and went over £1 trillion in 2011 and over £1.5 trillion in 2016. At the end of March 2019 the National Debt was £1.80 trillion.’

Do you borrow even more in the hope of stimulating the economy?
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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 13:50 - Jun 16 with 1422 viewsexiledclaseboy

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 13:09 - Jun 16 by Nookiejack

I think Tories have been the party of deregulation since Thatcher. Since the Wall Street crash there was always reluctance for Investment Banks to own Retail Bank re Glass-Steagall Act.

If Investment Banks historically wanted to gamble they had to do it with their own capital.

I don’t think the Tories would have reined things back - however who knows what the shape of the economy would have looked like then.

I generally think that the people in charge are accountable for their policies and decisions.

I don’t think you can blame the Tories for it on the premis - that if they were in charge they wouldn’t have done anything differently.


But it’s inherent from your answer that the Tory governments since 1979 are at least partly responsible given that they began the regulation that Labour continued. Labour was the party in power at the time of the crash but it would have happened anyway.

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Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 13:55 - Jun 16 with 1411 viewsNookiejack

Which ones lying? Blair or Corbyn? on 13:50 - Jun 16 by exiledclaseboy

But it’s inherent from your answer that the Tory governments since 1979 are at least partly responsible given that they began the regulation that Labour continued. Labour was the party in power at the time of the crash but it would have happened anyway.


Labour were in power for 11 years before the crash.

Surely they had enough time to change things?
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