Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!
Terrorist attacks
Floods
Foot and mouth
Northern Rock
He's Jinxed
The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”
Terrorist attacks
Floods
Foot and mouth
Northern Rock
He's Jinxed
You mean from 1997 when he had the purse strings:
Removing dividend tax relief on pensions reducing the UKs pension scheme to one of the worst performing in the EU
Removing £40b public spending (PFI) off the UK plc balance sheet to give the impression that UK plc is doing great
Won't build more prisons because he can't put it on PFI
The highest taxation burden in history through misdirection using over 66 new stealth taxes
Declared a Tory idea of independence of the BoE as his own, but filled the committee with his cronies (watch "Merv the Swerve" get the scapegoat of the year prize)
Manipulated the official inflation rate by altering the basket and influencing the "independent" ONS
Increased public sector jobs and inflation to unprecedented levels
The creation of more quangos than people on IB
Created an illusion of reduced unemployment while furthering the previous government's trend of fiddling the stats by moving people off unemployment onto what is referred to as Incapacity Benefits
Disregarded advice from the Bank of England before he sold off more than half the country’s gold reserves at the bottom of the market.
Encouraging easy credit to give the impression of a great economy which is fueled on record debt levels (£1.3 trillion)
And most recently, sent a message out to all financial institutes that it's OK to go to Vegas, put all your client's money on red and lose, because there are plenty of taxpayers out there who will bail you out (can you imagine the Tories doing that for the BCCI?)
Comment