Recent Posts Tagged With 'gordon brown'

• Unjustified Bonuses Paid By Taxpayers

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 11:46 in Barack Obama, banking, financial services, Bonuses, recession, gordon brown, bailout, financial services authority, clamp-down

  AIG bonuses are ‘an outrage’ says President Obama, and he speaks for us all.  How can the senior executives in AIG be so out of touch with reality that they rely on legal niceties to do what is so morally wrong?  Perhaps that la...

• RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland ) Has Record Loss Of £28 billion

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 17:57 in banking, prime minister, recession, gordon brown, royal bank of scotland, hbos

  Image via Wikipedia After hearing the news that the Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is proving to be the Lloyd’s Banking Group Albatross, you might not be surprised to see that the other UK banking shoe is falling, if you don’t mind the mi...

• UK MPs Gold-plated Pensions Under Serious Review

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 15:33 in labour, tony blair, recession, gordon brown, civil service, uk pensions

  When so many, and in particular pensioners, are suffering world-wide in the global financial crisis, it is almost unbelievable to see the UK Telegraph’s story Gordon Brown to scrap final salary pensions for MPs. Gold-plated final salary pension...

• Openness In Government - Barack Obama

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 20:42 in facebook, gordon brown, freedom of information legislation, ukpensions

  This is a somewhat ironic follow-up to the earlier rant about Gordon Brown’s wish to keep embarrassing UK government activities secret. Actions speak louder than words.  On his very first packed full day in office, Barak Obama has pledged ...

• Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister, Old World. Barack Obama, New World.

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 08:29 in Barack Obama, abraham lincoln, gordon brown, new world, old world, ukpensions

  What a glorious day occurred yesterday for the whole world with the inauguration of Barak Obama as the new US president.  Now we must all pick up the message, Yes We Can.  That means facing up to reality. After a whirlwind of galas surround...