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Listed below are comments made by ipmlloyd between Sunday, 23rd November 2008 and Sunday, 1st March 2009.

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HBOS: Strong men will weep 4:45pm on 01 Mar 2009 This catastrophic disaster raining upon all society lies squarely at the Boardroom doors of The Banks, Investment Banks and Regulatory Authorities.
Banker’s undeserved and totally unjustified snouts in troughs refilled by public taxation must be brought to account.
When are we going to see some positive Government action to claw back these excessive and extreme hand-outs by the imposition of a retrospective windfall tax and loss of jobs –
it is called “Dismissal with Disgrace”
If the BBC would just cheer up the recession might not be so bad.....discuss. 5:36pm on 28 Jan 2009 ANGELA KNIGT HAS DONE A FANTASTIC JOB FOR THE BANKS IN DEFLECTING THE "OUTRAGE" WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN DIRECTED TOWARDS BANK EXECUTIVES.THE BANKS CREATED THE PROBLEM USING FALSE ASSETS TO BOOST CRAZY LENDING SYNDROME AND "RAMPANT GREED"
THESE EXECS ARE STILL IN SITU WITH SALARIES AND GUARANTEED PENSIONS.
FOR THE REST OF US - PENSION POTS DOWN,NIL INTEREST RATES,
HOUSE AND STOCKS DOWN, DOWN
THE BBC IN FACT HAVE BEEN CHARMED INTO NOT PERSUING THIS ASPECT
Costa living going up? 07:05am on 23 Nov 2008 Like many of your other contributors we consider ourselves Europeans and wish the majority of our countrymen and women would do likewise and stop this nonsense talk of Foreigners across the Chanel.
We retired early to France in 1999 on a small private pension to enjoy a less stressful lifestyle. We contribute to the French Tax and social security system and have a private mutual health “top-up” scheme which will provide almost a 100% cover.
We paid into the UK tax and NHS system for all of our working life and I received a full UK pension from 2007.
BUT we do not receive the winter fuel allowance since we were not in receipt of it prior to our leaving the UK. The more this allowance increases – the LESS entitlement we receive as pensioners but the winters have been as low as minus 15 degrees Celsius.
We thought that there is a European directive to the effect that expat citizens should not be legislated against – but so far MP’s and MEP’s have nothing to offer.
The loss of the fuel allowance together with the disastrous exchange rate means that our income is severely lower than it would have been in the UK – possibly by as much as 30%.

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