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JerryChicken wrote:Having shared an England dressing room in the early 70's with Mr Boycott I can assure you all that he was not universally appreciated by his fellow players, as you'd expect he was very opinionated not just about batting performance but all aspects, picked up on every little mistake out in the field and let the miscreants know about it at the breaks, I once witnessed he and Alan Knott almost come to blows when he criticised one wicket keeping mistake - and I myself was accused of theft by him then when someone else pointed out his error he just stomped off in a mood, not big enough to apologise - no I'm not a fan
Eh ?
Me ?
Play for England ?
No I was 12 years old and the England dressing room "gopher", running errands for the players for £5 a day courtesy of my uncle who was one of the managers at Headingley, funny thing was that I barely knew any of them and hated cricket
Out of memory wasn't Mr Boycott along with Mr Botham pretty good with his fists against the fairer sex?
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Standee wrote:Really, you believe that Brown could have rescued our economy....sheesh
I'm not one to be uncritical of Brown, but the economy was in growth by May 2010 – that's simply a fact – while various commentators have been moving to the view that, had Brown not decided to bail out the banks, the situation would have been a very great deal worse. The other thing he is now being credited with is keeping the UK out of the euro.
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Standee wrote:Really, you believe that Brown could have rescued our economy....sheesh
The question was could he WRITE A BOOK
repeat!!!
WRITE A BOOK
The answer is yes
Was that too difficult for a right winger to understand? I have made it bigger and coloured it in to be helpful like the social person I am
It seems like it to me further evidence, if any more was needed , that right wing people are those who screw/support economies based on ignorance and GREED and blame everyone else for their faults and misunderstanding.
Oh and compared to the current incompetent in charge of the treasury and his minions, Brown has more knowledge of economics that the entire lot put together. The reason for the global meltdown was RIGHT WING GREED and lack of scrutiny and accountability as required by right wingers.
I notice none of the unaccountable, unelected people involved in this meltdown of the world economies have ever been brought to book, especially by right wing governments but always lay the blame on others particularly the poorer sections.
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Leaguefan wrote:The question was could he WRITE A BOOK
repeat!!!
WRITE A BOOK
The answer is yes
Was that too difficult for a right winger to understand? I have made it bigger and coloured it in to be helpful like the social person I am
It seems like it to me further evidence, if any more was needed , that right wing people are those who screw/support economies based on ignorance and GREED and blame everyone else for their faults and misunderstanding.
Oh and compared to the current incompetent in charge of the treasury and his minions, Brown has more knowledge of economics that the entire lot put together. The reason for the global meltdown was RIGHT WING GREED and lack of scrutiny and accountability as required by right wingers.
I notice none of the unaccountable, unelected people involved in this meltdown of the world economies have ever been brought to book, especially by right wing governments but always lay the blame on others particularly the poorer sections.
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Joined: Feb 27 2002 Posts: 18060 Location: On the road
Leaguefan wrote:The question was could he WRITE A BOOK
repeat!!!
WRITE A BOOK
The answer is yes
Was that too difficult for a right winger to understand? I have made it bigger and coloured it in to be helpful like the social person I am
It seems like it to me further evidence, if any more was needed , that right wing people are those who screw/support economies based on ignorance and GREED and blame everyone else for their faults and misunderstanding.
Oh and compared to the current incompetent in charge of the treasury and his minions, Brown has more knowledge of economics that the entire lot put together. The reason for the global meltdown was RIGHT WING GREED and lack of scrutiny and accountability as required by right wingers.
I notice none of the unaccountable, unelected people involved in this meltdown of the world economies have ever been brought to book, especially by right wing governments but always lay the blame on others particularly the poorer sections.
I agree re the Tories they are hopeless, however it was a Socialist government that further relaxed the rules that allowed the banks to get into such difficulties.
You cannot absolve Brown/Labour of any blame. Economically he did after all sell all the gold just before the price of gold went through the roof!! Very sound economic thinking?
Making mistakes is not a criminal offence - if it were there wouldn't be a business leader left out there. They get brought to book by losing their job. Plenty of bankers, many high profile, lost their jobs - quite rightly - as a result of the crash. If you don't think that is the case who is still running a big bank that was running one prior to the crash?
Your job is to say to yourself on a job interview does the hiring manager likes me or not. If you aren't a particular manager's cup of tea, you haven't failed -- you've dodged a bullet.
Joined: Feb 17 2002 Posts: 28357 Location: MACS0647-JD
Sal Paradise wrote:... Plenty of bankers, many high profile, lost their jobs - quite rightly - as a result of the crash. If you don't think that is the case who is still running a big bank that was running one prior to the crash?
Yes, but there's losing your job, and then there's losing your job banker style. which is more akin to winning the lottery, with a seven figure payoff, including shares and a pension that would make Croesus weep. Not to mention being ushered into some more cosy minted directorships as soon as the dust has settled. Adam Applegarth who screwed Northern Rock, got a £3/4m payoff for example, or Steve Crawshaw of Bradford & Bingley who jumped ship moments before it sank (taken poorly, it seems) with benefits that included a £1,800,000 pension pot. Or Joe Cassano, who basically bankrupted AIG to the tune of $11bn and was "fired" - except he was also retained as a "consultant" albeit on a miserly $1m a MONTH. Or Chuck Prince of Citi bank who also was fired - with a $140,000,000 golden handshake. Or do you remember Fred "the Shred" Goodwin's pension pot being doubled from £m to £16m because he has "retired" 10 years early? But to be fair to Fred he DID agree to reduce his pension to a pitiful £342,500 a year from £555,000 so it seems churlish to even mention that he had taken an estimated £2.7 million tax-free lump sum.
They didn't NEED to run any more banks. people like Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Bros., who admitted to earning over $300,000,000 in just eight years. Lost their jobs? Don't make me feckin laugh.
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