George Osborne to make statement to the Commons on Barclays

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4280

So lots of posturing and then a cop out. Brilliant. As you were then bank tossers, fill your boots.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:20 pm

So Osborne, via aides after the debate. withdraws his accusations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18716828

satnav · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:39 pm

I wonder which Treasury minister has drawn the short straw to appear on Newsnight tonight?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:27 pm

Danny Alexander did Channel 4 News.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:56 pm

Allegra Stratton has just lived up to her usual poor standards.

George Osborne hasn't withdrawn his allegations, he clarified them. And if you look at the text, Ed Balls was overreacting.

Didn't notice much clarifying by Osborne in the debate. And funny how The Spectator and Telegraph "misunderstood".

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:07 pm

Are you watching Newsnight Tubby?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:15 pm

As always on a Thursday.

Quite good defence discussion.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:17 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

As always on a Thursday.

Quite good defence discussion.

One for i-player later then. thanks.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:19 pm

Very conservative, as defence discussions always are. But they did regard stuff like Trident, the UN seat as open to question.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:25 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

But they did regard stuff like Trident, the UN seat as open to question.

Bloody hell!! That's huge. :shock:

Who was the govt rep?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:27 pm

Hammond, but he wasn't in that bit.

It was a posh military historian who said that. He also didn't fancy Syria very much.

oboogie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:03 am

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Hammond, but he wasn't in that bit.

It was a posh military historian who said that. He also didn't fancy Syria very much.

Ah, not such a big story then.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:28 pm

Tory MPs are losing patience with Osborne
The Chancellor's "disproportionate obsession" with Ed Balls comes under attack from his own side.

Quote:

The irony is that Osborne's jihad against Balls was intended to restore his Budget-battered reputation. But the Chancellor's obsessive desire to pin the scandal on Labour meant that he missed an obvious truth: what matters most is who is seen to have the right policy now. In the eyes of the public, the Tories' refusal to sanction a judicial inquiry (something that enjoyed the support of 75 per cent of voters, according to YouGov) or to levy new taxes on the banks (Richard Reeves, Nick Clegg's outgoing director of strategy, tells today's Independent that the Lib Dems were pushing for a 10 per cent surcharge on bankers' bonuses) has confirmed their status as the political wing of the City of the London. As so often, Osborne, the man charged with constructing a Conservative majority, has achieved the reverse.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/polit ... ce-osborne

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7330

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Danny Alexander did Channel 4 News.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:16 pm

Serious Fraud Office launches Libor investigation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18742140

George Osborne to make statement to the Commons on Barclays

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