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Listed below are comments made by anewworld between Wednesday, 15th July 2009 and Tuesday, 27th October 2009.

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El Presidente 1:43pm on 27 Oct 2009 What a farce. Just as the Tories get close to winning an election, they blow it again with nonsense about the EU.

All he needs to say is that we will have a referendum on Europe. Now that the spectre of Blair has been raised most people will vote NO!

To bleat on about being offended by Blair as President makes him sound like a bullied child, not a potential Prime Minister.
Tories bash the rich 2:29pm on 08 Oct 2009 Anglophone

Yes, I feel sick thinking of the comprehensive experience. I was very lucky to be placed into a (now considered non PC) Catholic school, where discipline and high standards could be imposed without too much local authority red tape.
That education meant that I was able to head to a decent university and into a well paid job. Those schools are now as rare as hens teeth and the rules to get in are so strict you would have to be the Popes daughter to access them.

Your point about bureaucracy is spot on. Each child at a school yields 5000 pounds a year for the school, so my 2 children over a 14 year school career will provide 140,000 pounds for the schools. I am sure that I can do better with the cash by teaching my kids at home, but that isn't an option.

Maybe a complete overhaul is needed, with real people, not education experts providing the blueprint.
Should Darling back Lloyds' rights issue? 12:17pm on 08 Oct 2009 Thank you to WRITINGS for your clear analysis.

Mmmmm. So a bit like unravelling last years Xmas Tree lights then.

It would be nice to think that behind the scenes the Government and the Banks know exactly what is going on.But it is very much to their advantage if the secrets are hidden.

My worry is that we are in a plummeting airline and the pilots are bickering about the number of seats we need.
Tories bash the rich 11:34am on 08 Oct 2009 To An Englishman

I was horrified to read your summary to sink school teaching.

We keep being told how much cash is going into the system, but like a drug rehab scheme it seems to offer a poor outcome.

I have young children and dread the type of education in life the comprehensives have on offer. I am more than aware that my kids will never have the education advantages of Boris, George and David.

But one thing that YOU, with your combined skills could offer would be a website offering the best lectures from the best teachers on the main subjects. A bit of an "Eton for Plebs" offering.

Sounds like you may have some time on your hands. And it would be a new way to access real ideas for kids in the SWAT classrooms.I,ve been looking online for ages for this and not found it yet.

Maybe if you set yourself up as an online acadamy you would get a grant.
Should Darling back Lloyds' rights issue? 10:42am on 08 Oct 2009 So without taxpayer help, in some form or another, Lloyds will crash.

Since we know that the Government will not allow any bank to collapse we may as well accept that we are going to pay for it and it will become part of the " we are all in this together" national debt.

What would be the alternative? What would happen if they were to go to the wall? Is it so unthinkable?

Last year we were given the argument that banks are too important to crumble. They had to get back to business as usual as soon as. Is that the same logic now?
Labour bets on bashing bankers 1:36pm on 28 Sep 2009 The idea that bankers should receive any bonus is obscene.

They already have a job,courtesy of the taxpayer, that's a bonus.

On the day the Chancellor is tinkering with bankers bonuses we have council workers in Leeds being told they need to accept a drop in wages of up to 30%. The contrast is beyond belief.
Banks can learn from retailers 10:09am on 18 Sep 2009 Wow. I know we have heard the figures before. But 15 trillion.It is difficult to put it into perspective.

The G20 agreed that if the continent of Africa were given 1 trillion poverty there could be wiped out.

But the concept of every person on the planet offering up 750 dollars is not politically palatable, so the G20 will be holding back on that one.
What RBS's results say about QE 4:01pm on 19 Aug 2009 450.

Quite.

Charles Dickens couldn't make it up.
What RBS's results say about QE 2:36pm on 19 Aug 2009 Re comments from Writing on the wall and Pawns/players.

Was it the Northern Rock?

They are presently making a 400 per cent profit on standard variable rate mortgages.Since house prices have reduced they can fleece their mortgage holders because they know they have them trapped.

Since they are the one of the UKs major mortgage providers this means that millions of people are paying way over the BoE rate.
How long will China finance America? 4:06pm on 15 Jul 2009 The tragic death of 23 cockle pickers in Lancashire gives us an indication the way the Chinese capitalists operate in the West.

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