Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Sunday, February 01, 2015

German and EU hypocrisy and short memories on Greece : Syriza aren't extremists - they're asking for the same debt relief deal Greece gave Germany in 1953. The EU is handing the banks almost ten times the amount of money Greece is asking written off in debts

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Syriza extremists or unrealistic? No, moderates, asking for deal Germany got in 1953 The deal Syriza are looking for is a reasonable one ...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

We need tax havens closed down to avoid another financial crisis and increase revenues , the 50p tax rate is a side issue, the mansion tax a gimmick

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Chancellor George Osborne's cut in the 50p top rate of tax is supposed to bring in extra revenue by making the wealthiest pay tax in the...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Not everyone working in finance or banking is to blame; but we're not all equally responsible for the financial crisis either

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Some of my posts might give the impression I blame all London financial workers for the financial crisis and think any employment in that ...
Friday, December 09, 2011

If you’re blaming public sector employees, the unemployed or immigrants, you’re being divided and conquered by the real culprits

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While the majority of people in employment in the UK have had pay rises below inflation,  effective cuts of an average of 4.5% ; the ave...

Neither Cameron’s concern for the City of London financial traders who caused the crisis nor Eurozone balanced budgets will solve the real problems

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It’s hard to know which is worse between David Cameron’s concern for regulations that might harm the ‘City of London’  - i.e the stock mar...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Police are not confused about how much force they can use in what situation - given past abuses of their authority they can't get a blank cheque

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Claims made by police spokesmen on BBC News 24 that police are “confused” about what level of force they can use and that this is making i...

Riot police beating 16 year old girl protesting Duggan shooting may have sparked the first riots - in Tottenham , London

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The riots across London and other English cities have obviously involved a lot of opportunist theft and violence many actions that can’t b...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Police violence against the peaceful majority of student protesters and passers-by should be punished too - they shouldn't be above the law

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Student protesters have come in for a great deal of criticism in the media lately, but a lot of it has been less than balanced – with a ri...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Join the police and get away with murder

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Ian Tomlinson lies dead or dying after being hit with a baton and then knocked to the ground by policeman Simon Harwood. As in the Jean Char...
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