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Listed below are comments made by CoralBloom between Tuesday, 7th April 2009 and Wednesday, 22nd April 2009.

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Gilts shock 9:25pm on 22 Apr 2009 Has there ever been a truly well researched academic report on the number of people who leave the country or work to the minimum once they have to pay a top-rate tax of 50%?

Don't forget that banker bloke who was embarrassed that he was paying a lower proportion of his income in tax than the office cleaner.

How much of this a real fact and how much is myth and spin? Some real data please...

I'm so disappointed not to see all those rich gamblers from the city to be hit with a retrospective windfall tax. It is they who created this mess and they who should pay to clean it up.
Treasury wants to cut pensions tax break 5:00pm on 20 Apr 2009 Oh my!

40K a year and they don't think they are rich!

Might not be on par with some of our bankers, but compared to the average salary in this country, anyone on that salary just doesn't know they are born!

The life, the fun I could have, the places I could go with that dosh, the HIV/TB orphans I could put through school with that! All those malaria nets!

Suppose with only 40K it wouldn't be realistic to have one of those expensive things called a telly showing those kids in Ghana today ....

And to those top tax payers who are all for the cut in tax relief, Bravo.
Barclays' painful deal 7:55pm on 09 Apr 2009 This isn't robbing Peter to pay Paul, it's the Paul Daniel's magic school, being abused by the bankers!

For crying out loud! I presume this non-trick of accounting was deemed to be appropriate by the board reading their horoscopes in today's red tops. With this manky accounting, they obviously have seen it in the stars that there will be retrospective laws enacted. They have no intentions of doing the right thing, only what they know they will get away with.

And in today's climate the senior managers are doing very well. Surprised, anyone?

It is time criminal investigations are carried out in every financial institution in the land. The regulators should be investigated in the same way. Spivs no longer describes these people.

Enough is enough.
Tories to break up banks? 11:00pm on 08 Apr 2009 #161 glanafon

Your post seems to demonstrate clearly that it is nonsense to hear/see that only badly run businesses go bust.

There will be many good businesses lost in the coming months and years as a result of the deplorable activities the greedy few.

Keep working and succeeding.
Tories to break up banks? 10:33pm on 08 Apr 2009 Are the tories saying that they will break up the banks to make more little banks?

And who will run them? Have they, like Labour found more new friends who have to be kept in great wealth, somehow? Or have they found experienced bankers who understanding banking, and banking regulation who will be able to do a better job than what we have now?

Do they mean that these global monsters need to be replaced with little local banks, and therefore globalisation is not quite the fantastic wonderful thing we have all been told it is?

Have they mentioned what they will do about adequate regulation? Have they mentioned anything about minimal capitalisation of these new small banks? Will these banks be casino-type banks or the boring, though steady kind?
New small banks, but no criminal investigation into those who brought us here?
Did any of the tories mention the word ethical, and if they did, did they define what they mean by that?

Or was it a quick soundbite to convince us they have changed?
By definition, political leaders will say anything to ensure they get in power.

One lot is as useful as the rest, in the end.
Tories to break up banks? 7:14pm on 08 Apr 2009 The banks and any other organisation that is too big to fail should be broken up.

The Tories will sell it to their mates - the same mates/spivs of Labour, the same usual bunch of incompetents. The smaller banks will grow and merge and we'll be back to where we are now in no time.

The only chance is to make them ethical and for the public to refuse to deal with those who are not. After all, if we don't buy their goods and services, they won't survive no matter their size.
Should the banks back Britain? 6:46pm on 07 Apr 2009 #144

Opening your mind to different societies and different systems within them will help you envision the possibilities of improving your own country.

I've referring to communities such as the Maassai and Samburu in East Africa. The Batwa are also interesting.

You may percieve your world as the best. But it is a perception, not a fact. rather than explain the way of life to you, the point I was making is there is no real NEED to use a bank. There is only a desire.

As somali_pirate and others has suggested, the banks can be taught to behave themselves. If you don't like their way of doing business, then take your business elsewhere. That is what markets are all about. If you don't want a service or an item, then no company can force it on you. You have feet and you know how to use them.

Just as the Samburu perceive our way of life as crazy, they just do not follow us. They stick to their own culture. They take from our culture what they see as useful and refuse to become involved in what they see as senseless. For instance, why buy a home when you can build one in a day? Why buy a garden fence when thorn bush make a far better barrier? They are a very serene, calm people with a great understanding of the world they live with the respect, wisdom and integrity we should all aim for.

It is all down to choices. And you do have that freedom to choose.
Should the banks back Britain? 6:26pm on 07 Apr 2009 #140
I'm so glad your zoological skills are above primary standards. Might want to brush up the reading when you've time though.
Should the banks back Britain? 5:04pm on 07 Apr 2009 #122

Oh, ishkander.

Then you'll realise what a racist statement that was. Those communities who measure wealth with livestock such as goats are getting along just as they were before Northern Rock fell.

Shame on you. Ignorance is no excuse.
Should the banks back Britain? 4:51pm on 07 Apr 2009 #118
Found an article referring to what I vaguely remembered. A website called Ethical Corporation has an article about how Scottish prawns were sent to China for shelling. Then brought back to the UK for sale. The same article refers to the loss of 70 jobs in the scampi industry. 70 folk lost their jobs because it was cheaper and therefore more profitable to ship scampi to China for shelling. The scampi were then shipped all the way back to the River Clyde to be rolled in breadcrumbs and then sold.

Wonder if somali_pirate is after those ships!

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