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Gordon Brown does not care if the bank have put £16 million pounds into his pension pot. All Labour are doing is trying to focus the public and newspapers on anything except the billions Labour have thrown away on the banks. By the current public response to the whole pension thing it is working nicely. Well done Gordon, I believe you have known about this pension all along and have saved it to deflect the media from your screw up nicely.

I don't really agree with privatisation. I think Thatcher got it wrong, she should have replaced the higher level of management within the public sector and somehow forced a change in the way the old public utilities worked. Maybe she thought it would be impossible to streamline them and make them operate like private businesses while still leaving them publicly owned.

What Labour have done with the banks is worse. They have in effect nationalised the bad business of the banks while leaving the money making parts still private. They should have nationalised the whole of the banks in question. That way OUR Country could have made some of OUR money back. I doubt we will ever see even a small percentage of our money invested in the banks returned to the national coffers.

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All this crap that Brown is coming out with about Goodwin, its just like Neil said he's playing to the gallery, but the fact of the matter is, his own grubby little fingerprints are all over it. The bloke he put in charge, Lord Myners is some one who will never have to answer to the electorate he's one of Labours cronies in the upper house, who incidentally was back by Lord Maddy the biggest chiseler of the lot. Gordon is trying to tell use he new nothing about Goodwins pension, it seems that when anything goes belly up nobody has ever told Gorden, well he's the big white chief and the buck stops on his desk. It might be an Idea if once, just once he followed in Obama's footsteps and admit he and his Government have cocked up big time, if I had breathe I wouldn't be holding it any time soon. And whilst I'm on about clawing back pensions, if he want Goodwin to forgo his £13,000 a week for life, indexed linked of course, maybe Gordon may just consider giving back all those Billions he filched out of private pensions to fund his tax and spend fiasco, but pigs will fly first

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Well the Gas and Electric companies have been sold off to France and Germany,The gold reserves sold for a fraction of their value.
I'm just waiting for the car-boot sale at Windsor,could pick up a bargain when It's the turn of the Crown Jewels.:D:D

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when prince philip dies im glad to see his testicles will go to a good home lol

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Sir Fred'll have to give up his pension now...Harriet Harman says so! And how are the government going to make him do it? Well, she's not really sure, but they're going to "step in" because it's unacceptable "in the court of public opinion" (whatever that may be). Strange really, how a minister in the same government signed the deal off only a few months ago.

Pathetic. :mad:

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reckon its just pie-in-the-sky, what i'm waiting for is some legislation to prevent cock-ups like this re-occuring, this ere "court of public opinion" in cashys house wants it, getting it may well be another thread later, if it ever happens, am expecting the "Opposition" who seem to be in favour at the moment, to object if any is proposed.:rolleyes:

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if gordon brown brings in legislation to ge this pension back could employers then use teh same law he creates to screw everyone out of tehir pensions?

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There is a good chance it could happen. As there is a feeling of disgust most wont mind until its to late. Bet the polititions would be exempt though. ;)

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thats not the kind of legislation, its to stop this ever occuring again, this sir useless minger has virtually got away with it, so can't see it affecting ordinary pensions, oiks cannot cock up big time n cost the country billions.

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Spot on accyman, £5 billion a year half inched out of peoples pensions every year, plus the fact that people who have been saving for their old age are get little or no return on their savings, so they're being screwed twice:(