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Listed below are comments made by moraymint between Wednesday, 7th October 2009 and Tuesday, 24th November 2009.

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Why did Bank of England keep shtoom? 10:37pm on 24 Nov 2009 Hope you're able to resolve your family matters Mr Peston; must be serious/complex stuff to take this long away; wish I had such an understanding employer as you have!! I run my own business, so just a few days away = crisis ... particularly in the current economic conditions.

On the topic, I'm with those shareholders who are going after Lloyds' directors: they were in breach of their duties by not making the existence of this loan clear to the shareholders. HBOS was worth no more than one pound when Lloyds was forced to buy it, being insolvent at the time. This is another lamentable episode in a miserable era in banking and political history.
Britain lands key EU foreign policy post 12:14pm on 20 Nov 2009 Mr Robinson

Will you or the BBC be commenting on the general thrust of the comments appearing on your blog here? Just wondering.
Britain lands key EU foreign policy post 07:13am on 20 Nov 2009 Utterly shameful. Why on earth do we put up with this? How do we stop it? The normal rules of democracy are shot to pieces. Are we supposed to start withdrawing our consent to be governed?
When politics matters... 9:33pm on 09 Nov 2009 My experience of working in "the Establishment" is that such letters should be dictated carefully, typed up and printed, checked by the author for quality and then despatched with a handwritten salutation and a handwritten valediction.

In my time working in "the Establishment" (admittedly some years ago now), our world class, apolitical civil service would have been right on top of this kind of administrative matter. Such an abortion of a document would never have seen the light of day.

This incident is as much an indicator of general administrative incompetence and the demise of good government as it is of Gordon Brown's legendary gauche behaviour.

To think, not so many years ago we were one of the most respected nations on earth. After 12 years of Labour Party shambles, we are rapidly becoming the world's laughing stock, led by a complete fool.
The Treasury hedge fund 2:14pm on 04 Nov 2009 "If we're past the nadir for the economy ... and that's a fair bet"

You are joking, aren't you Mr Peston? I thought we were heading for a double dip?

http://tinyurl.com/ygcl6ok

Ah well, we'll see.
...gone 10:06pm on 15 Oct 2009 Will these people ever get the message, I wonder?
Lloyds: compensating taxpayers 6:14pm on 10 Oct 2009 # 88 sizzler944

I tend to agree with your general point that the financial crisis (unsolved, but instead punted a short time in to the future) has become, or is becoming an economic crisis (we're being propped up by even more government borrowing and the printing of money) which will become, in due course, a social crisis (jobless or soon-to-be jobless people on the streets).

My own view is that social unrest is a virtual certainty during the next parliament. The politicians are desperately trying to keep a lid on things. All of the political parties' recent conference pronouncements demonstrated barely the faintest understanding of the scale of Brown's disastrous legacy, still less how to rein in state spending (now out of all control) to the tune of tens of billions of pounds per year. I haven't heard a single proposition from any politician that has anything to do with turning around our economy.

The problem is that Cameron is economically illiterate (remember "sharing the proceeds of growth", ie economic growth is some magical event that just happens, and endless growth in state spending is, per se, a 'good thing' ... Que?) and yet, it's the economy (stupid) that now needs some heavy duty attention. Cameron doesn't do numbers - which is about as helpful to the nation as if Churchill didn't do warfighting.

So, sizzler944, I reckon you're right. There's going to be trouble on the streets for as long as we have a bunch of politicos in office who wouldn't know simultaneous state cost-cutting and wealth creation if it carpet-bombed them.
Lloyds: compensating taxpayers 6:30pm on 09 Oct 2009 # 65 houseflogger

"Moraymint - commiserations, been there 20 years ago, but I have every faith that your entrepreneurial spirit will win through and you'll be back ..."

Thanks to you and the other posters picking up on my earlier comments; your interest and support is appreciated.

You're damned right my entrepreneurial spirit will win through! The Bank of Scotland can go to hell.

Of course, neither our political elite nor the banking mafia would know entrepreneurial spirit if it trundled over them in a steam roller. Regrettably, it's people like me, chasing business, working every hour God sends, sacrificing holidays and getting grief from the wife and kids for never being around, earning profits and paying corporate taxes that keep the politicians' expenses and bankers' bonuses flowing.

If only Gordon Brown and his pathetic Marxist acolytes had the faintest idea of the degree to which they've screwed this country over the past decade.

I'm thinking of some words from a Dougie MacLean song, "You can fall over, but you mustn't lie down ...". I have absolutely no intention of lying down. This travesty of a Government can go join in hell their banking pals at Lloyds; rest assured, I'll get my own back in due course.
Lloyds: compensating taxpayers 11:22pm on 08 Oct 2009 Get this.

I have been in a meeting with my bank this afternoon: the Bank of Scotland, part of the Lloyds Group. They've just told me and my business partner that the Bank has neither the funds nor the desire to support our business any longer; just like that. Our working capital facility has been summarily withdrawn. No more cheques will be honoured. Our business relationship manager left us in no doubt that our job was to find another bank, fast.

Don't let anyone tell you that Lloyds Bank is providing credit to its customers. The banking mafia is looking after its own, using money being printed furiously by the Bank of England to shore up their own banks' balance sheets. Citizens of the UK be warned: we are being robbed blind ... by the UK banking mafia, aided and abetted by our stinking political elite.

This country is going bust. Ironic really, given that our Dear Leader spent years telling us that he'd eliminated boom 'n' bust (before going on to save the world).

My company is about to go bust, whilst the bankers and politicos draw their salaries, expenses and bonuses just like they ever did ... all funded by us taxpaying mugs.

Somebody had better sort out this unholy mess fast, before people like me start taking to the streets.
Another gaffe 10:36pm on 07 Oct 2009 Not to worry Mr Robinson; no harm done. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bigs bite ...

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