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Listed below are comments made by Coineach_Wildrover between Sunday, 6th July 2008 and Thursday, 9th October 2008.

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What now for HBOS? 1:28pm on 09 Oct 2008 62 and 67,
Remember that the TSB (The Trustees Savings Bank) was (allegedly) owned by its depositors until one Maggie Thatcher (commonly known as "Maggie the Snatcher" after her School Milk debacle) prised it from the hands of its depositors and sold it off. I remember the legal arguements which went on for weeks. The profits, of course, ending up in the coffers of Westminster.

It was then taken over by Lloyds.

One wonders then why the only bank which has an apparent interest in the take over of HBOS is Lloyds TSB. One would, I think, be asking the question: "Who is helping them????" Two words spring to mind "Smell" and "Rat"

Is RBS going to be the next notch on their gun???
What now for HBOS? 08:50am on 09 Oct 2008 There is obvioulsy no truth in rumours, but if there was rumoured to be Government "interference" in the HBOS and RBS share drop, I seem to remember a certain Conservative MP in the Kincardine and Deeside Constituency during the Maggie Thatcher Dynasty who was Finance Director of his family run company which deregistered in Scotland only to immediately re-register in England. Being a (currently) Scottish Registered Company (as HBOS and Lloyds TSB currently is) means very little.

I also seem to remember a rumour around the same time about the Scottish Development Agency (I think) purchasing a large number of shares in this MP's family's company either just before or just after he was elected as an MP. The value of the shares very soon afterwards slumped dramatically loosing the Scotish Development Agency a great deal of money.

The company whose primary industry was in the textile business (cashmere spinning, I believe) immediately diversified into medical supplies, which obviously had nothing to do with the said MP pushing for the establishment of the first (and only) private hospital in the HNS based in Stonehaven, the centre of the (then) Kincardine & Deeside Constituency.

It was all perfectly legal - of course ........
What now for HBOS? 3:18pm on 08 Oct 2008 I begin to wonder why it is only the two SCOTTISH banks and who have their head offices in Edinburgh that are feeling the cold wind of speculators forcing their share prices down to make them easy targets for take-overs.

Does one think that maybe the Westminster Government has a hand in this so as to prevent Edinburgh continuing as a financial centre should the SNP gain independance???????
Labour lagging in by-election race 06:29am on 06 Jul 2008 Maybe Margeret Curren and the rest of New Labour (Mis)management is hoping that she will be successful in all three posts; MSP, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party and new MP for Glasgow East.

Her and their objective is quite simple - to gain enought (public) money to help pay off Labours massive overdraft.

Me thinks she intends to be in for the long haul - maybe someone should tell her .... Wendy, perhaps??

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